Gender mainstreaming in climate change policy

Gill Allwood and Mariola Acosta

Chapter 20 in Research Handbook on Gender Mainstreaming, 2026, pp 262-274 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Gender mainstreaming (GM) has been taken up by governments and organisations around the world since it was introduced by the Beijing Platform for Action in 1995. The need to mainstream gender in climate policy is now widely recognized, although this happened later than in other sectors, and evidence suggests that it has not translated into gender-responsive climate policy. Alongside this, there is a growing trend for international organizations and national and local governments to call for climate change to also be mainstreamed throughout all policy sectors. We use two case studies – Uganda and the European Union – to investigate the extent to which gender has been mainstreamed into climate policy at the supranational, national and local levels. We examine the relation between GM and the mainstreaming of other cross-cutting issues, including climate change, to ask how we can overcome the limitations of mainstreaming and achieve gender and climate justice.

Keywords: Gender Mainstreaming; European Union; Uganda; Climate Change Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035353415
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