GGCA Gender and Climate Change Training Manual - Women's ...

Module 7:
Gender mainstreaming in climate change
financing mechanisms
Key messages
In the first instance, women’s response and ability to cope with climate change issues are critically
dependent on the robustness of their underlying health and wellbeing and the breadth of their
social networks. In the second instance, women’s ability to adapt to the demands of climate
change depends on the depth of their control over economic resources and their access to
financial resources (Williams, personal communication).
• Women’s economic and financial resources are more greatly
endangered by climate change than men’s;
• Climate change financing policy does not take into account the
effect of climate change on women’s economic security. It should
focus on promoting investments in micro projects and national
carbon taxes that may yield greater benefits to women;
• The voices, concerns and priorities of women cannot continue to
be marginal in the existing national and international frameworks for
climate change financing;
• Adaptation financing should focus on cost-effective adaptive
measures in agriculture and natural resource management that are
more in alignment with women’s climate change and related
activities;
• Mitigation financing should complement greenhouse gas (GHG)
abatement with projects that enhance women’s livelihoods and
rights;
• Private-sector climate change financing should account for and
mitigate the negative impacts of market actions on women’s access
to resources such as land.
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7.1 What is climate change financing?
National and international attempts to confront the challenges of
climate change have resulted in many actions at all levels of the economy. The
goals, targets, modalities, projects and programmes emanating from climate
policy around adaptation and mitigation strategies will require significant
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