Climate Classroom @COP27 – Human Rights, Gender and Climate Change

Climate Classroom @COP27 – Human Rights, Gender, and Climate Change

Monday, 14 November 2022 – 10AM CET

The Climate Classroom @ COP27 is an innovative learning experience designed to help those attending get quickly up-to-speed on key climate issues. Throughout COP27, our team of experts will deliver online 45-minute classes that expose and introduce learners to a range of climate change topics – allowing particularly delegates from climate-vulnerable countries to play an active role in climate negotiations. Learning about climate change is essential to making timely, effective, and sustainable decisions – join us in The Climate Classroom and stay up-to-date on climate at COP27 and beyond!

The class

Climate change impacts the realization of human rights across all parts of the world. However, it particularly affects the human rights of those that have contributed the least towards it – resulting in climate injustice. Women and girls are often the most vulnerable, due to gender-differentiated roles, responsibilities, and power structures that exist across most societies.

While gender equality is important in its own right, it can also be an important ingredient to the success of climate adaptation and risk mitigation activities. This class will therefore look at how gender issues can be mainstreamed into climate negotiations, as well as how women can be involved as equal partners and actors in inclusive resilience-building processes.

Resources

• Free e-learning course on Gender Equality and Human Rights in Climate Action and Renewable Energy
• Basics of Mainstreaming Gender into Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Policies
• Training Manual on Gender and Climate Change Resilience
• Project video “Women’s Action Towards Climate Resilience for Urban Poor in South Asia”
• The 5-year enhanced Lima work programme on gender and its gender action plan

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