Page 17 - Pocket Guide to Gender Equality under the UNFCCC

TiMELiNE2001201020112012COP7 adopts the frst stand-alone decision on enhancing gender balance and women’s participation and integrates gender equality as a guiding principle for national adaptation programmes of action.COP16 adopts the Cancun Agreements where decisions on adaptation, REDD+ and capacity building include references to gender and the ‘Shared Vision’ outlines gender equality as important on all aspects of climate action. COP17 adopts decisions on fnance and technology that include gender considerations, namely in relation to the Green Climate Fund and the CTCN. COP18 adopts a second stand-alone decision on enhancing gender balance under the Convention, and makes gender a standing agenda item of the COP.