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Exploring Gender Perspectives on Environment & Climate Change: Stakeholders and Initiatives

This session in Geneva aimed to identify stakeholders, categorize research areas, and present key activities in the UN region regarding gender and environmental topics. It discussed measurable areas and explored papers on the subject.

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Exploring Gender Perspectives on Environment & Climate Change: Stakeholders and Initiatives

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  1. Measuring environment and climate change from a gender perspectiveWhere to start? Gender Statistics Work Session Geneva, April 2010

  2. Objectives: • Point out the main stakeholders • Attempt to categorise different exploratory areas in the research • Present key activities and publications in UNECE region and beyond on interface between gender and environment & climate change • Introduce papers • Discussion on measurable areas relative to gender and feedback for UNECE future work

  3. Main Stakeholders • People • Private sector – industry, business leadership • Public sector – NSOs, policy-makers • Universities – research • NGOs, lobby groups • UN agencies • FAO • UNCTAD • UNDP • UNEP • UNECE • UNSD • Regional Commissions (ECE, ESCAP, ESCWA, ECLAC, ECA)

  4. Conceptual Map 1 People (Gender) 6 2 5 7 Recycling, Renewables + Alternatives 9 8 3 4 Infrastructure Resources

  5. Examples • 1. Impact of pollution (Health) • 2. Access to amenities (MDG7) • 3. Institutional use/distribution of natural resources (mining), policy (treaties) • 4. Environmental protection (NGOs, lobby groups) • 5. Individual access to natural resources (i.e. food) • 6. Agriculture • 7. Recycling actions • 8. Sustainability and climate change • 9. Impact of Environment initiatives (research, evaluation)

  6. Sources of information • 1. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/its-official-men-really-are-the-weaker-sex-1055688.html • 2. http://www.escwa.un.org/divisions/scu/GenderMDG/index.asphttp://www.eclac.org/mdg/goal_7_en.html • 3. http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_15/items/5257.php • 4. http://www.ejfoundation.org/http://unstats.un.org/unsd/environment/default.htm • 5. http://www.fao.org/spfs/en/ • 6. http://agriculture.einnews.com/russia-cis/ • 7. http://www.defra.gov.uk/evidence/statistics/environment/pubatt/index.htmhttp://www.statistik.at/web_en/statistics/energy_environment/environment/environmental_conditions_and_behaviour/index.html • http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_322_en.pdf • 8. http://www.unece.org/stats/publications/Measuring_sustainable_development.pdf • http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-78-09-865/EN/KS-78-09-865-EN.PDF • http://koensforskning.soc.ku.dk/konferencer/climate/ • http://www.un.org/womenwatch/downloads/Resource_Guide_English_FINAL.pdf • 9. http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/polwiss/forschung/systeme/ffu/http://www.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/results.asp?CID=&LANG=EN&SF1=SeriesIdentifier&ST1=ser-00141p1&SORT=sort_date/d&DS=OECD%20Environmental%20Performance%20Reviews • Cross-cutting: http://www.undp.org/energyandenvironment/gender.htm

  7. SESSION III: Emerging issues in gender statistics: (continued)Sub-session D. Environment and climate change from a gender perspective • Invited paper: • “Gender and Environment Statistics”, Gerry Brady & Helen Cahill, CSO, Ireland • Supporting papers: • “Gender-specific environmental behaviour in Austria:Environmental conditions and behaviour - Micro-census 2007”, Alexandra Wegscheider-Pichler, Statistics Austria • “A Gender Analysis on Food Security Statistics from National Household Income and Expenditures Surveys (NHIES)”, Seevalingum Ramasawmy, FAO

  8. Gender-specific environmental behaviour in Austria:Environmental conditions and behaviour - Micro-census 2007 • Ecological buying behaviours of men and women • Organic and energy efficient products • Different gender patterns but it is not possible to discern whether these are due to different gender roles, different personal interests • Looked at single person households to try and eliminate “underlying” gender effects from hard behavioural differences – surprising results • Recycling/waste sorting • No major differences in behaviour • Transport (public/private) • Some striking differences, as IE paper also suggested

  9. Reflections • Statistical challenges - Difficult to separate out: • Purchasers and consumers (ie mums buy, kids eat) • Decision chain between Intentions and Behaviour • Gender also embedded in aspects not directly related to people (cf link between infrastructure & resources) • Poverty / wealth economic transition all play an important part in individual behaviours • Not there yet on many levels, but on its way…

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