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

Sammanfattning

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.

Nyckelord

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

Publicerad i

Environmental Politics
2018, Volym: 27, nummer: 5, sidor: 917-938
Utgivare: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

SLU författare

• Westholm, Lisa

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Arora Jonsson, Seema

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Globala målen

SDG5 Jämställdhet
SDG10 Minska ojämlikhet
SDG13 Bekämpa klimatförändringarna
SDG15 Ekosystem och biologisk mångfald


UKÄ forskningsämne

Globaliseringsstudier
Genusstudier


Publikationens identifierare

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

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

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