This is the report of the Expert Group Meeting (EGM) organized by UN Women, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat (UN DESA), and the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC secretariat) from 14 – 16 October 2015, in Bonn, Germany. The EGM brought together representatives from existing climate finance and climate technology institutions, gender equality and climate change experts and specialists from a variety of countries, disciplines and organizations, as well as representatives of the organizing entities.
The EGM resulted in recommendations that will assist policy makers and practitioners to formulate and implement gender-sensitive and gender-responsive climate policy and actions in the context of a new global climate agreement to be adopted at COP 21, and in the broader 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Specifically, recommendations aim to support the incorporation of gender perspectives in UNFCCC mechanisms and processes (e.g., development of technology needs assessments (TNAs), as well as the operationalization of gender-specific mandates of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), including the development of programme and project proposals for the GCF.
