Background

Women are not a monolithic group. In fact, elements such as racial discrimination, age, social status and disability overlap, creating different layers of vulnerability. Addressing genderbased vulnerabilities in the context of climate change, therefore, requires data disaggregation.
Scientific findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reinforce the importance of gender-disaggregated data to understand how climate hazards—such as floods, droughts, wildfires, and sea level rise—interact with structural vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stem from poverty, marginalization and intersecting factors such as gender, age, ethnicity, race, disability, and social location. As a combination of these multiple conditions, every woman experience the impacts of climate change in a unique way, highlighting the need for more informed approaches to policymaking to ensure its effectiveness.
At COP29, Parties to the UNFCCC have extended the enhanced Lima Work Programme on Gender (LWPG) for another decade (decision 7/CP.29). This decision reflects a growing consensus on the need to empower women and girls in climate action and to mainstream gender- and age-disaggregated data in policies, mechanisms, and programs.
As Parties prepare the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and present their Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs), there is an opportunity to meaningfully integrate gender-disaggregated data to inform effective climate responses. This is also a crucial moment to discuss how these elements will be reflected in future processes such as the second Global Stocktake, whose technical phase will begin in
2026.
This event will explore strategies for generating gender-disaggregated data to better understand these complexities and to inform gender-responsive climate action. The meeting event builds on key milestones such as the Global Conference on Gender and Environment Data’s Call to Action and the COP29 workshop on “The Power of Gender Data for Prioritization and Transparency.”

Objectives

Building on the call of the new Lima Work Programme on Gender (Decision 7/CP.29), this event aims to:
• Explore strategies for generating gender-disaggregated data to better address the multiple vulnerabilities faced by women and girls in the context of climate change;
• Share strategies and best practices for generating, analyzing, and applying gender- and age-disaggregated data to inform gender-responsive climate policies and actions;
• Strengthen the integration of disaggregated data into NDCs, NAPs, BTRs, and other reporting frameworks under the Paris Agreement and UNFCCC.

Outcomes

The event is expected to result in:
• Enhanced understanding of the differentiated and intersecting vulnerabilities
experienced by women and girls in the face of climate impacts;
• Showcasing of experiences and methodologies from Parties and stakeholders in collecting and utilizing gender- and age-disaggregated data;
• Concrete recommendations on how disaggregated data can be applied in the implementation of gender-responsive climate action under the UNFCCC.

Participants

• Governments
• Global Data Institutes
• UN entities and IGOs
• Civil society organizations

Agenda