EmPower Project Phase II Brief (2023-2027)

Year: 2022 Tags: Economic empowerment, Climate Change, Energy, Renewable Energy, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Environmental Protection, Sub-regional

The impacts of climate change, environmental degradation and disasters are unequally felt across Asia and the Pacific region. Women and marginalized groups have less access to information, resources,...

Gender-responsive Renewable Energy Programmes

Year: 2022 Tags: Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Renewable Energy, Sub-regional

This report takes stock of the ongoing experiences related to gender-responsive renewable energy programmes as well as the consolidated wealth of knowledge and lessons learned in this field. Although...View

State of Gender Equality and Climate Change in Bangladesh

Year: 2022 Tags: Climate Change, Energy, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Renewable Energy, Water, Bangladesh

The report aims to strengthen country-driven processes by presenting more evidence of the links between gender equality and climate change in the priority sectors of crop agriculture, water resource...View

Renewable Energy and Women Entrepreneurship Programmes

Year: 2022 Tags: Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Renewable Energy, Economic empowerment, Sub-regional

This Guidebook has been developed by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to serve as a user-friendly tool for institutions, project developers and practitioners to plan, design and implement renewable...View

ASEAN RE-Gender Roadmap

Year: 2022 Author(s): ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) Tags: Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Renewable Energy, Regional

This roadmap aims to chart a pathway which weaves women’s potential contributions into ASEAN’s emerging renewables market, creating a positive snowball effect which promotes gender equity, accelerates...View

In the Loop: Issue No. 2

Year: 2022 Tags: Climate Change, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Capacity-Building, Renewable Energy, Regional

Read up on all the progress achieved by the EmPower programme as we continue our journey towards building more inclusive and climate-resilient societies in the Asia-Pacific region. View/download: ...View

Gender integration in renewable energy policy - A guideline for renewable energy policy and decision makers

Year: 2020 Tags: Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Economic empowerment

The purpose of this guide is to introduce and improve the integration of gender issues in renewable energy policies, plans and strategies by providing practical ways to step up commitments in...Download

Powering Equality: Women’s entrepreneurship transforming Asia’s energy sector

Year: 2020 Tags: Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Technology

This report is an initiative by the joint UN Environment Programme-UN Women project- EmPower: Women for Climate-Resilient Societies to capture the evidence and lessons that make the case for investing...Download

EmPower Women in Renewable Energy, Technology Transfer and Climate Action to #SolveDifferent in Asia Pacific

Year: 2019 Tags: Renewable Energy, Climate Change Mitigation, Regional

Side Event, Third Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia PacificDownload

Global gender and environment outlook

Year: 2016 Author(s): UNEP Tags: Climate Change Adaptation, SDGs, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Human Rights, Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment, Civil Society, Global

The GGEO was first proposed to UN Environment by the Network of Women Ministers and Leaders for the Environment (NWMLE) at the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). In...Download