Friends of the Earth regrets that the current summit does not comply with the Gender Action Plan.
The environmental organization Friends of the Earth considers that the COP26 Climate Summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow “continues to turn its back on a just and feminist energy transition”, by showing “a great deficiency” in the inclusion of the gender perspective.
According to a statement from the environmental group, which this Monday published the report If it is not fair, it is not a feminist, that analyzes “what is a just energy transition” and in whose elaboration more than one hundred experts and international activists have participated, it is women who “suffer the worst impacts of the climate crisis”, although “they also create real solutions for the energy industry. fossil fuels”.
Friends of the Earth regrets that the current summit does not comply with the Gender Action Plan, which was renewed for five years during the COP25 held in Madrid in 2019, by showing deficiencies in the commitments established by the countries, in the representation of the women in negotiating bodies and in their role as observers, in particular, of women in the Global South.
“There is enormous potential to increase the gender approach in climate action that promotes the participation of women, especially those of the communities of the Global South and indigenous peoples, while helping to limit the increase in the global average temperature in 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels, ”says the person in charge of Climate Justice at Friends of the Earth, Cristina Alonso.
The NGO warns that “less than 40%” of the National Plans of Determined Contributions at the national level analyzed “explicitly mention gender or women as a priority.”
Regarding the representation of women in negotiation and decision-making spaces, Friends of the Earth points out that “more than half are men” and that this disproportion increases “the more the decision-making capacity of the space rises.”
Friends of the Earth also warns of the risks involved in using the term “Net Zero” in the negotiations, which they say serves the “rich countries” as an umbrella “to root all the false solutions they are defending” and “hide its climatic inaction “.
In this sense, it highlights that the introduction of this concept endangers the reduction of emissions, obviates the role of women as agents of change, making the successful adaptation and mitigation tools that are already being carried out invisible and condemns them to continue suffering the worst part of the climatic impacts. (I)
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