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Kenya: Feminists – No Progress in Global Warming Without Women’s Input

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Countries can achieve their commitments to limiting global warming if the crucial role of women in climate change mitigation strategies is recognised, feminists said on Monday.

The Paris Agreement binds countries to a commitment of limiting global warming to1.5 degrees Celsius and women, according to various studies, play a central role in reducing greenhouse emissions.

UN Women Watch, for instance, indicates that although women in the rural areas primarily use wood, charcoal and agricultural wastes, which emit greenhouse gases, they are excluded in trainings on innovative energy technologies.

“It follows that the lack of recognition of the role of women in the energy sector, leads to ‘gender-blind’ energy policies that fail to address some of the most pressing factors affecting the capacity of developing countries to adapt and mitigate climate change,” it notes in its Women, Gender Equality and Climate Change document.

Agricultural policies

Rosalie Ouoba, a member of Burkina Faso’s Nous Sommes la Solution movement, said women must be involved in developing agricultural policies.

“In West Africa, women contribute 70 per cent of food production. But they cannot own land due to traditional mind-sets,” she said on Monday during a Defending and advancing indigenous feminist ecological alternatives webinar by Natural Justice.

She said without the involvement of women, there will be no friendly environment free from pollution.