gender-responsive-climate-policy-2020-0037f513e337e437.pdf

The report establishes that gender equality is both a co-benefit of and a tool for effective climate policy. Through an analysis of the Colombian coal sector, it finds that current climate and energy policies are largely gender-blind or rely on stereotypes, while gender policies often ignore the climate crisis. Field research reveals that while women—particularly Indigenous and Afro-Colombian women—are active grassroots leaders in defending their territories, they are structurally excluded from formal decision-making. The authors propose a GRCP that incorporates intersectionality, local expertise, and a 'just transition' framework to ensure that the phase-out of coal does not reproduce existing social inequalities.

• Gender equality serves as a tool for more effective climate protection; specifically, higher female representation in national parliaments is linked to more stringent climate policies and lower CO2 emissions, while gender quotas improve the effectiveness of GHG emission reduction interventions.
• Current global approaches to the climate-gender nexus suffer from six primary shortcomings: a lack of scientific and gender-disaggregated data, underrepresentation of women in decision-making, a tendency to portray women only as vulnerable victims rather than agents, a disproportionate focus on micro-level adaptation over macro-level mitigation, a lack of intersectional perspectives from the Global South, and a failure to challenge unequal power structures.
• Analysis of Colombian policy documents shows that climate and energy policies are generally not gender-responsive and often use 'man' as a universal term for human beings, while gender policies fail to substantively incorporate the climate crisis.
• In the Colombian coal sector, women—especially from Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities—act as informal agents of transformation through 'defense of the territory,' yet they face structural barriers to formal political participation.
• Women's roles as caregivers create a paradox where care work motivates their grassroots engagement to protect the environment for future generations, but simultaneously acts as a barrier to their access to formal decision-making spaces.
• Coal mining in Colombia has disproportionately affected Indigenous and Black communities, resulting in gender-specific harms including infertility, miscarriages, and a link between mining regions and gender-based violence such as sex trafficking.
• Colombia's transition away from coal presents a 'window of opportunity' for a GRCP, but there is currently no comprehensive sectoral policy for a coal phase-out that addresses social, economic, or gender-specific consequences.
• The report identifies academic institutions as critical 'bridging actors' capable of translating between national-level policymaking in Bogotá and the local expertise of communities in regions like La Guajira and Cesar.

APA

Mohr, K., Castro, S. R., Meyer, K., Groot, A. M. M., Niño, N. D., & Vallejo, M. L. R. (2020). gender-responsive-climate-policy-2020-0037f513e337e437.pdf. Transforma. https://transforma.global/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/gender-responsive-climate-policy-2020.pdf

Chicago

Mohr, Kerstin, Silvia Rojas Castro, Kathrin Meyer, Ana María Mahecha Groot, Natalia Daza Niño, and María Laura Rojas Vallejo. gender-responsive-climate-policy-2020-0037f513e337e437.pdf. Transforma, 2020. https://transforma.global/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/gender-responsive-climate-policy-2020.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{mohr2020genderresponsiveclimatepolicy20200037f513e337e437pdf, author = {Mohr, Kerstin and Castro, Silvia Rojas and Meyer, Kathrin and Groot, Ana María Mahecha and Niño, Natalia Daza and Vallejo, María Laura Rojas}, title = {{gender-responsive-climate-policy-2020-0037f513e337e437.pdf}}, institution = {Transforma}, year = {2020}, month = oct, url = {https://transforma.global/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/gender-responsive-climate-policy-2020.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }