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aspects in capacity building under the Convention.n Decision 15/CP.18, on Article 6 (now Action for Climate Empowerment or ‘ACE’), observes gender as a crosscutting issue in all six areas of Article 6 of the Convention.n Decision 16/CP.22 invites the newly established Paris Committee on Capacity Building to take gender-responsiveness and human rights as crosscutting issues in the 2016-2020 workplan.LOSS AND DAMAGE Gender, among a variety of social, economic and political factors, acts as a critical crosscutting issue in the context of understanding the magnitude of loss and damage impacts. n Decision 3/CP.18 acknowledges the need for further work to enhance the understanding of how loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change affects those already made vulnerable due to gender. It also acknowledges the need for strengthening sex-disaggregated data collection.n Decision 2/CP.19, on the establishment of the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage, mandates the mechanism to undertake the collection, sharing, management and use of relevant data and information, including gender-disaggregated data. GENDER IN THE PARIS AGREEMENT The Paris Agreement, adopted at COP21 in 2015, was an important moment in the history of gender’s inclusion within the UNFCCC. Considered a major stepping stone for international action on climate change, the Paris Agreement integrated gender into the following areas:n Preamble: “Acknowledging that climate change is a common 4