Gender & Women at COP 31

On this page you can find the women and gender events taking place at COP 31.

Please check the COP 31 schedule to confirm the dates and venues. 

Events organized by our Partners and Friends*

 

Date

Venue Event Details

9 Nov 2026

(Tentative: 12:00-13:00)

Uzbekistan Pavilion

From Climate Risk to Resilient Health Systems: Financing Gender-Responsive Adaptation in Central Asia

Co-organized by GGGI and UNFPA

UNU Global Health will be contributing to the discussion by bridging technical evidence with actionable policy by explaining how climate risks directly impact health infrastructure, maternal care, and regional disease patterns, and help demonstrate how country-level initiatives in Central Asia can be structured into scalable, investable adaptation programs.

9 Nov 2026

14:30-15:30

German Pavilion

From Global Indicators to Local Resilience: Making Adaptation Monitoring Work for Communities

Co-organized by Save the Children, UNU Global Health, ICLEI Europe, Climate Alliance, YADA association Turkiye

This session will connect the UNFCCC negotiations with adaptation implementation on the ground. It will examine how the indicators can be strengthened through child-sensitive and socially disaggregated data, as well as respond to the local realities and facilitate access to adaptation finance.

12 Nov 2026

9:00-10:00

WHO Health Pavilion

From Belém to Impact: Operationalizing Child-Sensitive GGA Health Indicators

Co-organized by Save the Children Germany and UNU Global Health

This side event will explore opportunities and challenges in operationalizing the GGA health indicators, with a particular focus on child-sensitive and equity-focused reporting
12 Nov 2026
13:15-14:45
 
Side Event Room 6

Just Transition in action for rights & decent jobs: Energy, food systems & care at COP 31

Co-organized by ILO, UNRISD, OHCHR, UNIDO, UN Women, FAO

This session supports governments, social partners and stakeholders to turn just transition commitments into action, create decent jobs, promote human and labour rights, including in the context of energy, food systems, care economy, among others.

12 Nov 2026

16:45-18:15

 

Resilient Health for Mothers and Newborns: Financing Climate-resilient SRHR and Protection Systems

UNFPA

 

13 Nov 2026

9:00-10:00

WHO Health Pavilion

Adaptation without a baseline: Heat, health and the limits of climate response in fragile settings

Co-organized by WHO EMRO and UNU Global Health

 

13 Nov 2026

10:00-11:00

UNFCCC Pavilion

One UN Approach to Action on Climate Health and Wellbeing

UNU Global Health

This action lab will bring senior UN representatives together to identify where their mandates and capabilities can combine to advance climate action that protects health and wellbeing.

13 Nov 2026

14:00-15:00

WHO Health Pavilion

The climate-mobility-health nexus: research as a bridge to action

Co-organized by WHO, IFRC, UNHCR, UNU Global Health, Migration Youth & Children Platform (MYCP) and YOUNGO Health 

The session will explore how research and lived experience can help move from recognition of the interconnections between health, climate change, migration, and displacement to practical action at national, regional, and global levels

14 Nov 2026

15:00-16:30

Side Event Room Blue, Blue Zone 

Resilient and dynamic health systems: progress from recent COPs

Co-organized by WHO, UNU Global Health, UNICEF, UNDP, OHCHR, UNFPA.

Aligned with COP31’s focus on Resilient and dynamic health systems, this event will take stock of progress from recent COPs and focus attention on the next implementation phase. It will bring together UN agencies, country representatives, health and climate negotiators, civil society and other partners to examine what is working, where gaps persist and which forms of collaboration can accelerate measurable gains for health, equity and climate action.

14 Nov 2026  

Belem GAP Workshop (National planning & assessments)

Co-hosted by members of the Gender & Climate Impact Collective

 

16 Nov 2026

4:30-15:30

SDG Pavilion

Advancing equitable and effective adaptation action: Why intersectionality matters

Organized by IISD, WEDO, Out for Sustainability, Prakriti Resources Centre, Urban Earth, Disability Caucus

 

17 Nov 2026

12:00-13:00

WHO Health Pavilion

From Heat to Health Resilience: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Climate Adaptation

Co-organized by OHCHR, GCHA, WYCJ, and UNU Global Health

The discussion will bring together health, climate, human rights, development, civil society, youth and frontline perspectives to identify practical pathways for integrating equity, participation, accountability and justice into national adaptation and health strategies. The event will move from vulnerability to action, identifying concrete policy, financing and implementation priorities for building resilient health systems and advancing a rights-based approach to climate adaptation—both at COP31 and beyond. 

17 Nov 2026

14:30-15:30

 

Just Transition in NDCs - where do we go from here?

Co-hosted by ILO, WRI, UNDP, NDC Partnership

 

18 Nov 2026

13:00-13:45

Canada Pavilion

From Commitments to Community Results—Gender-Responsive Climate Action in Practice

Co-hosted by NDC Partnership, Climate Action Africa, Environment and Climate Change Canada

 

18 Nov 2026 

TBC

 

Multidimensional factors in the Belém Gender Action Plan (GAP): Advancing equitable climate action

Organized by IISD, Out for Sustainability, Alziras Institute, Prakriti Resources Centre, and WEDO

The Belém GAP recognizes that climate impacts and climate action opportunities are shaped by multiple, intersecting factors. This event convenes civil society and government leaders to address discrimination and marginalization and advance more equitable climate action.

*This list is not exhaustive and includes only those events that have been shared with us. Further events will be added as information is received. 

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