The reports behind the book – and what's new, with our take.
Recent reports and news on gender and climate – with a short take on why they matter.
As COP17 opened in Ulaanbaatar (17–28 August), the UNCCD's own Civil Society Organizations Panel said gender-responsive approaches, civil society participation and synergies across the Rio Conventions were pushed off the formal agenda before substantive negotiations even began – leaving women pastoralists' leadership largely to side events instead of the decision-making floor.
A workshop in Mexico City brought together around 100 participants from sixteen Latin American and Caribbean countries. The result: 21 new regional indicators linking gender, environment and climate, and a permanent Working Group on Gender, Environment and Climate Change Statistics, set up with ECLAC and UNEP.
As the Belém Gender Action Plan (2025–2034) enters its first year of implementation, FEMNET argues African women remain among those hit hardest by climate change yet most excluded from decision-making and climate finance – and calls for the plan to be backed by real institutions, budgets and accountability ahead of COP31.
UN Women's flagship series dedicates its tenth edition entirely to climate. The expert group meeting report (5 June) tests a feminist climate justice framework built on recognition, redistribution, representation and reparation – and the accompanying Climate Policy Scorecard is expanding to 100 countries this year.
New WEF analysis of progress toward gender parity at the top of organizations – the layer where climate decisions and capital allocation actually happen. Meanwhile, reporting shows women now hold a majority of chief sustainability officer roles at large companies.
2026 stacks three Rio Convention COPs in four months: desertification (August, Mongolia), biodiversity (October, Armenia) and climate (COP31, November, Türkiye). Advocates are pushing to bring gender equality into all three agendas at once.
Planet vs. Patriarchy is built on nearly 300 verified sources. These are the sources worth knowing, each with the one insight that matters most here.
The world's collected climate science in one assessment: impacts are here, risks compound with every fraction of a degree – and it explicitly links climate outcomes to equity and inclusive governance.
The annual benchmark across 148 economies: 68.8 percent of the global gender gap is closed – yet at this pace, full parity is still more than a century away. The climate can't wait that long; neither can we.
The most comprehensive ranking of climate solutions places girls' education – with access to voluntary family planning – among the highest-impact levers for emissions reduction and resilience.
Since 2016, the world's sixty-five largest banks have provided about $8.7 trillion in fossil fuel financing. Every conversation about "who blocks the transition" should start with this number.
Legal restrictions on women's economic participation remain widespread worldwide. Every one of them also limits who can build, fund and lead climate solutions.
The first systematic scorecard tracking whether national climate policies actually integrate gender – turning "gender-responsive climate policy" into something countries can be held accountable for.
The UN's own synthesis of the evidence: climate impacts fall disproportionately on women and girls, and involving them as agents of change – not just as victims – makes climate response measurably more effective.
Companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on their executive teams are significantly more likely to outperform financially – diversity isn't a nice-to-have, it's a performance driver.
A field guide to solutions that put women at the center of design and delivery, from clean energy to sustainable agriculture – proof that gender-just and effective are the same solution.
The UN's plan for embedding gender equality into every layer of climate governance – participation, finance, data and technology – through 2034, adopted at COP30 and now entering its first year.
UNDP's annual scorecard of reproductive health, empowerment and labor-market gaps across nearly 200 countries – the baseline against which climate policy's gender promises can be measured.
The richest one percent of humanity emits more than twice the combined carbon of the poorest half – a reminder that climate justice and economic justice are the same fight.
The scientific framework defining the safe operating space for humanity across nine Earth systems – the ceiling that any credible economic model, including a feminist one, has to respect.
From crash-test dummies to city snow-clearing schedules, this book documents how a world designed around male-default data quietly fails women – including in climate and disaster planning.
An anthology of essays and poetry by women leading the climate movement – proof that the field's most original thinking is already led by women, if you know where to look.
A practical guide to climate advocacy that centers race, class and identity – arguing that environmentalism which ignores who is most affected isn't environmentalism at all.
The foundational legal paper that coined "intersectionality" – the analytical lens the book uses to understand how gender, race and other identities compound climate vulnerability.
UN Women's core briefing on why the climate crisis is a gender crisis, and what gender-responsive climate policy looks like in practice, from the household to the negotiating table.
The evidence base linking gender gaps in land, credit and education directly to climate vulnerability and adaptive capacity across the Bank's client countries.
A new compass for the economy: meet everyone's essential needs within the planet's ecological ceiling – a model several cities have already started to adopt.
A cross-country review of how gender gaps shape – and are shaped by – environmental policy, from green jobs to access to climate finance.
The energy world's reference roadmap to net zero – the technical backbone against which any gender-responsive transition plan has to be built and budgeted.
The IMF's running tally of what governments spend propping up fossil fuels – the same money that could fund gender-responsive climate adaptation many times over.
The tenth edition of UN Women's flagship series devotes itself entirely to climate, built around recognition, redistribution, representation and reparation – the clearest statement yet that gender equality and the climate crisis are one agenda.
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