IUCN event | 14 Nov, 2022

Our Climate Future is Female: A Progress Report on Implementing U.S. Efforts to Advance Women and Girls’ Climate Action

At COP26, the United States announced a renewed whole-of-government commitment to promoting gender equity in mitigating and responding to climate change, underscored by the associated climate strategic priority in the U.S. National Gender Strategy.

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In this session at COP27, local climate leaders and key U.S. Government partners will report on progress in this area – including through an AGENT-supported process to develop a national Climate Change Gender Action Plan in Guatemala – and discuss a vision for the future of sustainable, local, and gender-responsive climate action.