Gender-responsive framework for implementing the Paris Agreement in Africa

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2017-05

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The African Union Gender Policy and forthcoming Climate Change Strategy, together present an opportunity to ensure that implementation of the Paris Agreement in Africa contributes to gender equality. The latest legally-binding outcome under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the Paris Agreement, which entered into force on 4th November 2016 and will apply from 2020. Identifying gender-responsive mechanisms to implement the Paris Agreement in terms of adaptation and mitigation initiatives is important to stop reinforcing existing inequalities. This paper proposes some mechanisms to ensure gender-responsive implementation of the Paris Agreement.

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CAPACITY BUILDING, GENDER ROLES, CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION, PARIS AGREEMENT, AFRICA, SOUTH OF SAHARA, GLOBAL SOUTH, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY, INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE AGREEMENTS

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