The three Rio Conventions on biodiversity, desertification and climate change, resulting from the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), have incorporated gender concerns in varying ways
Gender was also addressed during the 2015 Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions. The main gender focus in these conventions is on the impact of poor management of hazardous chemicals and wastes on vulnerable groups, including women and young children.
The GGEO provides an overview of existing knowledge to generate insights and propose some answers to the following key policy-relevant questions:
• What social forces are producing the changes seen in the environment, and are they gender dependent?
• What are the large-scale consequences of ongoing ecological changes for social systems and human
security, and are the impacts gender-differentiated?
• What do future projections and outlooks look like, are they gender-differentiated, and will there be
different outcomes for women and men?
• What actions could be taken for a more sustainable future that will position women and men as equal
agents in taking such actions, and which socio-economic factors will shape different outcomes and
responses for women and men?
The Global Gender and Environment Outlook (GGEO)has been developed and written by a global team of almost 50 experts, with inputs from major groups and international organizations. We wish to thank all those who have contributed to the GGEO and look forward to the uptake of its findings at the second United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-2) in Nairobi in May 2016.