The International Women’s Day on March 8th is a powerful reminder of the persisting challenge to achieve gender equality for all women and girls and the necessity for inclusive policies across all sectors and parts of society. At the same time, countries around the globe are developing national transparency systems to improve national policymaking and respond to the Paris Agreement’s call for biennial transparency reporting to track collective efforts towards low-carbon climate resilient development pathways, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

The impact of climate change is unequally distributed between men and women, particularly within economically and socially disadvantaged communities, due to pre-existing socio-economic and structural inequalities. The incorporation of a gender lens in climate transparency ensures that countries better understand women’s critical and diverse roles in climate action and their unique vulnerabilities. Such insights can then form the basis for broadly mainstreaming gender into climate policies, strategies, and actions and thereby systematically address gender disparities, promote inclusivity and leverage the leadership potential of women’s driving force in climate action.

To this end, the Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency – Global Support Programme (CBIT-GSP), in collaboration with the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT), UNDP, The Commonwealth Secretariat and UNFCCC organises this webinar in the context of the International Women’s Day. This event aims to demonstrate the significance of integrating gender equality considerations into climate reporting frameworks, with a particular emphasis on Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs), and to highlight the necessity for policies that empower women as pivotal stakeholders in climate governance. The sharing of insights from countries that have established gender-responsive national transparency and climate policy frameworks will help understand the practical steps needed as well as the outcomes of such gender-responsive measures in countries.

The event will provide insights from ICAT’s Good Practices for Integrating Gender into Climate Transparency Frameworks and a sneak peek of an upcoming toolkit for gender-responsive BTRs, developed by CBIT-GSP in collaboration with UNDP, providing hands-on guidance for countries to mainstream gender in their national climate transparency frameworks.

Register on the Climate Transparency Platform.