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Shedding light on gender and female empowerment within current NDCs revisions at COP30
During COP21, 195 parties signed the Paris Agreement intending to hold off “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels”. To pursue this, they introduced Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), where all parties to the Convention must create climate action plans that include mitigation and adaptation efforts, involve multiple actors and sectors of the economy, and offer unique opportunities to integrate gender. NDCs function as a country’s main mechanism for national climate policies and planning within the country’s own budget, so they must include, shape, and account for those most impacted.
Gender in the SB62 Climate Negotiations: The Hope for an Ecofeminist COP30
From June 16 to 26, 2025, the city of Bonn (Germany) hosted the 62nd Subsidiary Body Session of the UNFCCC (SB62), a crucial technical stage of climate negotiations that precedes the Conference of the Parties (COP) every year. In this space, civil society plays an essential role in pressuring authorities to deliver fairer, more ambitious, and more inclusive climate proposals ahead of COP30, which will take place in Belém, Brazil, in November of this year.
Women on the Margins of Extreme Weather Events
Women, who are protagonists in creating adaptation measures and rebuilding areas affected by environmental disasters, as well as responsible for bringing identity back to communities, need to be recognized and represented in the solution to the climate crisis.
The G20 and Climate Change: A Gender Perspective
This article discusses how the G20 has addressed the climate crisis in its agenda, through a gendered perspective. It includes information on what steps have been taken by the Group of Twenty countries (known as the G20) so far in recognizing the unequal impacts of climate change on women and girls and what the main obstacles are in guaranteeing effective member engagement on this issue. The article ends by highlighting opportunities for Brazil to advance the incorporation of gender within climate policy during its G20 presidency and at the 2024 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, taking place on November 18 and 19.
From Dubai to Belém: Gender and Climate at the Triarchy of COP
This week, the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, first established in 1992, began. What does this mean? Between November 11th and 22nd, 2024, leaders and heads of state from 192 countries will be meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, to debate global policies and actions against climate change, seeking to achieve the objectives defined in the Paris Agreement in 2015.
To follow COP29 in a productive way, it's always worth remembering the results and presence of EmpoderaClima at the grand COP28.