Economic policies encourage the careless use of people and the planet. Creating caring economies is the answer

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change includes a Gender Action Plan, adopted in 2017. The plan aims to “enhance the gender responsiveness” of climate policy and climate action. It outlines specific actions and strategies to promote gender equality and the participation of women in climate change mitigation.

This is in line with the mainstream approach to gender and climate change, which focuses on “including women” in the:

• sectors that are the focus of transition to carbon neutral economies

• finance (public and private) allocated to investments in transition

• decision-making bodies (public and private) that focus on transition.