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Mainstreaming Gender in Global Climate Governance This book explores the role of feminist activists in The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and highlights the progress they have made in mainstreaming gender as a key issue in global climate governance. It is now commonplace for gender to be framed as a political issue in global climate politics within academic scholarship, but there is typically a lack of robust empirical analysis of existing advocacy approaches. Fill- ing this lacuna, Joanna Flavell interrogates the political strategies of the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) in the UNFCCC. Through a con- ceptual framework that integrates climate change with intersectional crit- ical inquiry and political practice, Flavell analyses hundreds of historical documents, coupled with interviews and observations from two UNFCCC conferences. This research uncovers a so-far untold story about the history of the UNFCCC that foregrounds gender and feminist advocacy, highlight- ing the importance of the WGC in shaping dominant narratives of global climate governance through a series of rhetorical and procedural strategies. Overall, the book draws important conclusions around power in global cli- mate governance and opens up new avenues for advancing a feminist green politics. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environ- mental justice, climate politics and governance, environmental activism and gender studies more broadly. Joanna Flavell is a fellow and ecofeminist scholar researching and teach- ing in environmental politics, with a special interest in activism in global climate politics. Joanna’s 2020 paper ‘The embodied politics of climate change: analysing the gendered division of environmental labour in the UK’ was published in Environmental Politics and was shortlisted for the best paper award 2020. Routledge Studies in Gender and Environments Series Editor: Professor Susan Buckingham, an independent researcher, consultant and writer on gender and environment related issues. With the European Union, United Nations, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and national governments and businesses at least os- tensibly paying more attention to gender, including as it relates to environ- ments, there is more need than ever for existing and future scholars, policy makers, and environmental professionals to understand and be able to apply these concepts to work towards greater gender equality in and for a sustainable world. Comprising edited collections, monographs and textbooks, this new Rou- tledge Studies in Gender and Environments series will incorporate sophisti- cated critiques and theorisations, including engaging with the full range of masculinities and femininities, intersectionality, and LBGTIQ perspectives. The concept of ‘environment’ will also be drawn broadly to recognise how built, social and natural environments intersect with and influence each other. Contributions will also be sought from global regions and contexts which are not yet well represented in gender and environments literature, in particular Russia, the Middle East, and China, as well as other East Asian countries such as Japan and Korea. Gender, Intersectionality and Climate Institutions in Industrialized States Edited by Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir and Annica Kronsell Gender and the Social Dimensions of Climate Change Rural and Resource Contexts of the Global North Edited by Amber J. Fletcher and Maureen G. Reed Mainstreaming Gender in Global Climate Governance Women and Gender Constituency in the UNFCCC Joanna Flavell For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/ Routledge-Studies-in-Gender-and-Environments/book-series/RSGE Mainstreaming Gender in Global Climate Governance Women and Gender Constituency in the UNFCCC Joanna Flavell First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 Joanna Flavell The right of Joanna Flavell to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-1-032-30751-0 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-30752-7 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-30647-4 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003306474 Typeset in Times New Roman by codeMantra For my son, Iggy Contents List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgements xiii List of Acronyms xv 1 Introduction 1 Why ‘ Gender and Climate Change’? 4 The UNFCCC as a Site of Inquiry 6 Overview of the Book 10 Bibliography 17 2 Enduring Debates in Feminist Climate Praxis 21 Theorising Feminist Climate Activism 21 Enduring Debates 26 Conclusion 40 Bibliography 42 3 Ecofeminist Intersectionality: Inquiry and Praxis 46 Ecofeminist Intersectionality as Critical Inquiry 49 Transversal Politics as Ecofeminist Intersectional Praxis 60 Conclusion 64 Bibliography 64 4 From Zero Gender to GAP: Foregrounding Gender in UNFCCC History 67 Phase 1: Zero Gender – 1992– 2007 68 Phase 2: Mainstreaming Gender into the UNFCCC – 2007– 2013 77 Phase 3: Gender Action Plan – 2014– 2021 83 Conclusion 93 Bibliography 95 viii Contents 5 Political Strategies Mobilised by the Women and Gender Constituency 102 Rhetorical Strategies 105 Procedural Strategies 117 Conclusion 130 Bibliography 131 6 Lessons for Ecofeminist Intersectional Praxis 138 Lessons from the WGC for Intersectional Inquiry and Praxis 140 Towards an Ecofeminist Transversal Politics 148 Conclusion 154 Bibliography 155 7 Conclusion: New Directions for Ecofeminist Intersectional Praxis 158 Original Contributions 160 Coda 161 Bibliography 162 Appendix 1: Methodology 163 Index 177 Figures 1.1 Structure of the UNFCCC 8 4.1 Gender in the UNFCCC 1992– 2007 68 4.2 Gender in the UNFCCC 2007– 2013 78 4.3 Gender in the UNFCCC 2014– 2021 83 4.4 Key Moments in the History of the UNFCCC 94
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