This briefing paper builds on previous ODI Global work that established a baseline of commitments at the gender–climate nexus across multilateral forums between 2022 and 2024 (Craft et al., 2025). That study assessed the content of commitments and negotiated outcomes across the UNFCCC, the G20 and the G7, while a follow-up working paper mapped the positions that blocs and countries took on gender equality within the UNFCCC between 2022 and 2025 (Craft et al., 2026).
The current briefing paper documents how gender and climate have been discussed together in resolutions from all HRC sessions between 2022 and 2025 (sessions 49 to 60). This portfolio of work maps how the gender–climate nexus has been addressed in different multilateral spaces, enabling future tracking and analysis. In the current context of a polycrisis, with international commitments under pressure, it is helpful to understand how states use different forums to protect and progress collective-action problems. Increasingly, the anti gender and anti-climate agendas are converging politically (Rodriguez et al., 2026). This makes it imperative to understand how gender and climate intersect, and how they are discussed and can be advanced in international commitments.
Authors: Amy Cano Prentice and Evie Browne, with Brianna Craft and Donya Khosravi
Source: ODI Global
Citation:
Cano Prentice, A. and Browne, E., with Craft, B. and Khosravi, D. (2026) Gender equality and the climate crisis: resolutions at the Human Rights Council. ODI Global Briefing Paper. London: ODI Global (https://odi.org/en/publications/gender-equality-and-the-climate-crisis-resolutions-at-the-human-rights-council/)
