Women are far behind men on measures of economic empowerment. Progress in closing the gap stalled in recent years; and slid backwards during the Covid-19 pandemic. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 for gender equality is still far from being met.
This policy brief summarizes the findings of an extensive study by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and ODI for GLOW, which sought to investigate how well women’s economic empowerment and low-carbon transitions are integrated in theory and in practice. It provides key recommendations for governments, international financial institutions and research funders.
The study found that there is a lack of academic scholarship that deeply and meaningfully links the potential synergies between women’s economic empowerment and low-carbon transitions at country, regional and global levels.