Lecture: Gender and Climate Change

Welcome to join a lecture on gender and climate change that includes case studies on gender and water commons as well as gender and circular economy.

Framing the nexus between gender & climate change

While diverse streams of eco-feminism have adressed the gendered dimensions of environmental degradation and preservation, gender considerations were fully included to the global agenda of climate action only in the mid-2010s, and most programmes and projects aimed at strengthening mitigation, adaptation and resilience to climate change-induced hazards, fail to holistically address their gender implications. In 2021, the French Development Agency commissioned the most comprehensive study to date, to map out how major international development stakeholders - including UN agencies, national development agencies, multilateral funders and transnational NGOs, frame the nexus between gender and climate. Elaborating on this vast body of knowledge, the lecture will delve into the specific cases of water commons and circular economy, to highlight how gender inequalities and climate change are entangled, and any resolute climate action bound to address gender and other inequalities.

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Your lecturer:

Maxime Forest, PhD, is a senior lecturer and researcher at Sciences Po Paris University (Gender Studies Programme and Urban School), where he teaches on gender and development and gender, post-coloniality and urban planning. A former executive member of the French High Committee for Gender Equality, in charge of international affairs, he participated to the CoP Paris (2015) and the One Planet Summit (2017). Since 2021, he has been involved in successive research projects launched by the French Development Agency, devoted to Gender and Climate, Gender and the Commons, and Intersectionality in International Development theory and practice.

Event is organized by the I4WORLD (Imaging and Characterisation for a Sustainable World) doctoral programme co-funded by the European Union.