Abstract:
The latest legally-binding outcome under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the Paris Agreement, signed at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC in December 2015, and due to enter into force on 4th November 2016. Climate change is neither gender-neutral in its causes nor potential impacts-partly as a result of gendered differences in vulnerability and capacity to adapt. The Paris Agreement provided the opportunity for the active and explicit incorporation of gender but, despite being mentioned in the language of the preamble and articles of adaptation and capacity building, it is absent from other articles.
