Parties Will Decide the Future of the Gender Agenda in the UN Climate Change Process This Year

The Lima work programme on gender: a watershed in climate action

In a pivotal step in 2014, the Conference of the Parties laid the groundwork for the inaugural Lima work programme on gender (LWP) through the Decision 18/CP.20. COP22 decided to extend the initiative for another three years. The following year, COP23 adopted the first gender action plan, defining activities under five priority areas for action to advance women’s full, equal and meaningful participation, promote gender-responsive climate policy and the mainstreaming of a gender perspective in implementing the Convention. In 2019, two years later, COP25 adopted the five-year enhanced Lima work programme on gender and its gender action plan, which will be reviewed this year.