Van den Broeck, Karlijn

Gender and Climate: ′The effect of climate change policy on gender (in)equality′.

Gent

Master Thesis at Faculty of Law; Ghent University

Table of contents

Introduction

I. Gender and Climate Change
I.1. Explaining Climate Change
I.2. The concept of gender
I.2.1. The meaning and use of the term gender and gender equality
I.2.2. Gender as seen by the United Nations
I.2.3. The meaning and use of the term gender equality
I.2.4. Gender-sensitive and gender-responsive policy making
I.3. Analysing gendered regulation
I.4. Obstacles within the analysis of gender regulation
I.4.1. The use of generalisation or essentialism
I.4.2. The use of gender stereotypes
I.5. Gender is about more than just women
I.6. The link between gender and climate change
I.6.1. Gender roles and Climate Change
I.6.2. Experience-related solutions by women

II. The effects of climate change on gender
II.1. Agriculture and Food security
II.2. Gender and Biodiversity
II.3. Gender and Water resources
II.4. Gender and safety
II.5. Human mobility and settlement
II.6. Gender and Energy
II.7. Gender and Technology
II.8. The effects of climate change on gender: including LGBT+

III. The need for gender mainstreaming

IV. The presence of the concept gender in International Climate Change Regulation
IV.1. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
IV.2. Kyoto protocol
IV.3. Green Climate Fund
IV.4. The Paris Agreement
IV.4.1. The COP21
IV.4.2. Shortcomings of the Paris Agreement
IV.4.3. Follow-up of the Paris Agreement: the COP22 in Marrakech
IV.5. The Gender Action Plan
IV.6. Conclusion on the use of Gender language in the UNFCCC regime
IV.7. Role of national governments in including gender in climate change policy and adaptation
VI.7.1. Countries taking the lead in gender and climate policy
IV.7.2. Possible pitfalls when including gender in national climate policy
IV.7.3. National Climate Change Gender Action Plans
IV.7.4. National Adaptation Plans of Action

V. Women as agents of change in mitigation
V.1. Low Emission Development Strategies
V.2. Case examples of gender-responsive mitigation action

VI. Gender and Climate Change adaptation
VI.1. Loss and damage in adaptation
VI.2. Examples of gender-responsive climate change adaptation

VII. Gender, Climate and Human rights
VII.1 Gender in human rights instruments
VII.2. Human rights at risk
VII.2.1. List of human rights at risk
VII.2.2. The Human Rights and Climate Change discourse
VII.3 Taking the Human Rights approach for gender and climate justice: an improvement or an obstacle?

VIII. Using litigation to achieve gender and climate justice
VIII.1. Departing from the concrete Human Rights Violations
VIII.1.1. Presence of a Human Rights Court
VIII.1.2. Access to and competence of a Human Rights Court
VIII.1.3. Human Right Courts jurisprudence as precedent
VIII.1.4. Limitations of Human Rights Courts jurisdiction
VIII.2. Departing from the absence of state action on Climate Change

IX. Are we past the gender and climate change momentum?

X. Critical comments on the use of law for climate gender solutions
X.1. Is gender-sensitive climate change policy the solution?
X.2. Deconstructing law and the concept of gender

Conclusion

Bibliography

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20.02.2018