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This analytical report presents an overview of existing normative frameworks at the international level that call for the equal participation and representation of women in decision-making and management processes. It provides examples at various levels and from diverse sectors, highlighting best practices and lessons learned for the achievement of positive outcomes to promote women’s voice and agency.

This brochure shows that across the world solutions are available to move countries, communities and businesses towards low-emission, climate resilient growth. These solutions deliver multiple benefits, from access to energy, public health improvements, reduced environmental impacts to driving a transition to low-carbon, greener growth. 

This brief is part of UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office’s series on the links between climate change, gender, and a number of development issues including women’s economic empowerment, health, food security, and energy.

The fifth edition of the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO- 5) assessed 90 of the most important environmental goals and objectives and found that significant progress had only been made in four. The report cautions that if humanity does not urgently change its ways, several critical thresholds may be exceeded, beyond which abrupt and generally irreversible changes to the life-support functions of the planet could occur. 

This manual is designed to support climate change practitioners in the Pacific islands region to integrate gender into their programmes and projects. It is aimed at climate change professionals working in national governments, non-governmental organisations, regional and international organisations who are involved in managing and implementing climate change programmes.

This brief is part of UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office’s series on the links between climate change, gender, and a number of development issues including women’s economic empowerment, health, food security, and energy.

This policy document aims to detail the recent progress of the Global Environment Facility to mainstream gender in climate funds programming and implementation. It also identifies next steps towards ensuring gender equality and women’s empowerment principles are further incorporated into the design and implementation of climate funds projects.

This policy document was prepared in advance of the 5th Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting in October 2013 in collaboration with the Global Gender and Climate Alliance Climate Finance Working Group. It presents concrete recommendations of how to achieve a gender-sensitive approach within the Business Model Framework of the GCF.

This brochure describes the Women’s Green Business Initiative, which is a global programme that is turning climate change challenges into economic opportunities for women, by promoting women’s employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in the green economy and in emerging climate change adaptation and mitigation industries.

This analytical report was launched at COP-17 in Durban. It examines the links between gender equality, climate change and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, as well as suggests how climate financing can be structured to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment. 

This activity report on the Global Consultation on Population Dynamics and the Post-2015 Development Agenda, published by UNFPA, UNDESA, UN-HABITAT and IOM, makes the clearest and strongest case to date why population issues must be integrated in the new development agenda.

This analytical report, using the city of Semarang, argues for the necessity of a more localized response that takes into account the ways in which exposure to climate hazards overlap with the social and demographic factors that influence vulnerability.

This comprehensive resource kit on gender, population and climate change discusses how gender equality can reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts and how women are uniquely positioned to help curb the harmful consequences of a changing climate.

This newsletter discusses initiatives linking cliamte change and cities.

This newsletter discusses how cities were adressed at the UN Secretary General Climate SUmmit (2014) and discusses the development of several projects linking clities and climate change.

This policy document is addressed primarily to decision-makers and stakeholders in the Global South engaged in developing national climate change policies. It seeks to help those teams to address a relatively narrow topic in the context of those policies: how their countries should deal with climate change in urban areas, and to empower local authorities as key actors in that effort.

This analytical report argues that strategic investment in physical infrastructure with the diversification of economies allows cities to play a specialized role in polycentric urban development. Furthermore, it suggests that green economic development can be achieved through the development of green clusters and green jobs.

This analytical report explores the compact city and its benefits within the developed and developing world’s contexts. The guide illustrates how the compact city concept and planned urban extension can support sustainable urban patterns that benefit the functioning of developed as well as developing world cities.

This analytical report proposes that cities can act as agents for change that allow their large populations to live less wastefully. It considers how infrastructure systems can be viewed as an opportunity to shift cities onto a more sustainable path by paying close attention to the resources that pass through them, and the manner in which they support the activities of the city.

This analytical report focuses on the effect of unplanned, rapid growth of cities on the functioning of a city-region’s natural systems. It outlines how guided development can maximise the ability of ecosystems to support sustainable human and natural processes.