Gender Day Gives Rise to the Forgotten Energy Providers in the Climate Conversation

Jan 13, 2022 | Philippe Benoit
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The singular issue that emerged on Gender Day during during last year's COP26 was the need for disadvantaged women, who are the majority producers and users of biomass energy, to be included within the climate effort.

Over the two-week conference (from 31 October 2021 through 12 November 2021) in Glasgow, Scotland, topics such as climate justice, the systemic plight of disadvantaged communities and greenhouse gas emissions were front and center.

However, nearly absent from the agenda was the one group of actors where so many of these issues intersect: the millions -- possibly hundreds of millions -- of poverty-stricken women who remain the primary producers of this traditional biomass energy.