Towards a Gender-Just Transition: A Human Rights Approach to Women’s Participation in the Energy Transition

This new publication, Women’s Participation in the Energy Transition, analyses the status of women’s representation and engagement in the global push to transform our energy systems in the face of the climate emergency, while developing a human rights approach to ensure women’s meaningful participation in this process.

This new briefing paper provides an overview of the current trends of women’s participation in the rapidly evolving renewable energy sector, as well as normative tools and policy recommendations to use human rights law as a compass for developing energy systems that are not only renewable, but socially and gender-just.

We hope it can contribute to inform how a wide variety of stakeholders can take action and ensure a gender-just transition to a low-carbon world.

We want to thank partner organizations working at the ground level that provided case studies to illustrate some of the policy recommendations on this brief. As well as the constant support of FES Geneva in the development of this project.