Agreed Conclusions: insights of stakeholder participation in UNFCC and CSW negotiations towards climate and gender justice

Women and girls have fewer social, material, and environmental options and limited coping mechanisms to respond to climate impacts. But this does not mean no avenues exist to build women’s resilience. Paying greater attention to women’s voices and the agency is critical to understanding what those opportunities are and harnessing them through gender-transformative policy and programming approaches. Equal access to decision-making is a critical step towards achieving gender equality and many studies show that the equitable participation of women and men in climate change decision-making can provide the crosscutting experiences necessary for climate change mitigation and adaptation policies that embody social and economic equity and reflect and serve the needs of society. Agreed conclusions are the outcome of all major UN conventions and the annual negotiations at the UNFCCC COP and the UN CSW (Committee on the Status of Women) are no exception to this modus operandi. Both conventions have well-established and organized NGO representation and civil society stakeholder participation that deliver input for these agreed conclusions. This paper is expanding procedural justice as one of the tenets of the gender-just energy policy framework by operationalizing the conceptual framework for qualitative analysis. The research is based on interviews with activists, delegation members, policymakers and participatory action research as the official NGO representative of The Netherlands for the CSW67 and the experience as a policy expert for the Dutch delegation for the COP26, COP27, CSW66, CSW67 and CSW68.