On 16 March 2023 (10:00-11:00 CET), the GGKP Gender Expert Group, with the Green Finance Platform, is hosting a webinar on "Financing Pathways for Gender-Just Energy Transitions".

The energy sector is largely dominated by a male workforce, and women and men are impacted differently by both the climate crisis and energy poverty. Transitioning towards low-emission and resilient pathways requires fundamental shifts in how we produce and use energy. 

The concept of "Just Transitions" embedded within the Paris Agreement refers to the greening of economies in fair and inclusive ways. Yet gender equality outcomes are often left out from being effectively integrated into just transition initiatives, with ambition low for large scale investments in particular. Financial innovations could support the realisation of gender equality in energy transitions – while meeting investment goals. More tools are needed to integrate gender-just outcomes in climate action.

To this end, the GGKP Gender Expert Group will launch its new report–Powering a Gender-Just Energy Transition–which discusses challenges and opportunities for inclusive energy investments and proposes a Gender-Just Energy Transition Outcomes Framework. The Framework assesses and identifies actionable gender equality outcomes in just energy transition initiatives with the aim of raising the level of ambition for transformative outcomes. 

Background

The GGKP Gender Expert Group convenes leading experts in green growth and gender with the aim of catalysing collective action towards gender equality and women's empowerment in global green transitions. A collaboration among leading green growth organisations, the Expert Group provides research, capacity building and knowledge sharing to respond to critical knowledge gaps and aid evidence-based policy development processes integrating gender equality in green growth approaches. 

The Gender Expert Group produced three papers addressing key knowledge gaps in gender-just transition data, policy and tools.