What room for politics and change in global climate governance? Addressing gender in co-benefits and safeguards

Abstract

Questions of equity, gender, power and rights are central to environmental justice in climate mitigation schemes such as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions From Deforestation and Degradation). Drawing on the ideas of co-benefits arid safeguards, the strategies for challenging mainstream discourse on gender in REDD+ - from the outside and within - are examined of two organisations that have attempted to bring a political concept - gender - into the largely technical discourse of climate policy. The analysis points to the risks of co-option that women's organisations face, trying to challenge and change the mainstream discourse on gender in climate policy-making. The need for diverse and flexible strategies for resistance and influence in order to seize opportunities that may arise in countering the depoliticising force of global climate governance are highlighted.

Keywords

Gender; climate change; REDD; feminist influence; empowerment; collective action

Published in

Environmental Politics
2018, volume: 27, number: 5, pages: 917-938
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

SLU Authors

• Westholm, Lisa

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Arora Jonsson, Seema

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Global goals (SDG)

SDG5 Gender equality
SDG10 Reduced inequalities
SDG13 Climate action
SDG15 Life on land

UKÄ Subject classification

Gender Studies
Other Geographic Studies

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2018.1479115

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/96358