From Rajasthan to Mexico: Why Gender Matters at the Heart of The Energy Transition

Oct 13, 2019 | Costanza Burstin, Mouna Chambon, Morgane Ollier, and Cécile Spanu
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In 2013, the climate negotiations (COP19) culminated with a promising consensus for women across the world: gender was voted as an independent agenda item in the international climate talks. Since then, gender has been increasingly integrated into the context of climate action, paving the way for gender-neutral climate policies. At the same time, national and local climate challenges spurred a new discussion on the place of women in the energy transition, as women still disproportionately bear the costs of climate change.

Today, more than 1.1 billion people in the world do not have access to electricity, of which the majority are women.