UN Women
12 Nov 2025, 05:04 GMT+10
The Gender Action Plan (GAP) is a strategy document that ensures climate action works for everyone. The GAP serves as the user manual for integrating gender perspectives across all climate actions. It is a tool to ensure that the policies designed for climate mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology, capacity-building and transparency all serve to boost women’s participation and leadership – not hinder them.
While the first GAP was adopted in 2017, Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are due to submit an updated plan at COP30. (This second revision of the GAP is part of the extension of UNFCCC’s Enhanced Lima Work Programme on Gender.) The final document – which should be adopted by consensus – will shape the next decade of global climate action and determine whether gender equality remains at the heart of the UN climate process or slips to the margins.
We’ll get deeper into what the Gender Action Plan means for women and girls. But first, some helpful context.
UN Women and our partners are demanding that gender equality isn’t just an afterthought of climate solutions, but built in.
In addition to the new GAP, there are many outcomes under negotiation at COP30. UN Women is advocating for every facet to take gender into account. This includes initiatives relating to:
UN Women’s new monitoring tool assesses how effectively national climate policies address gender inequalities. Visit the dashboard to see how countries’ are stepping up on issues like unpaid care work, health and gender-based violence.
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Women and girls all around the world are not only experiencing the impacts of rising global temperatures but also growing backlash against their longstanding, internationally agreed rights and empowerment. UN Women calls on the Parties at COP30 to meet the moment with a Gender Action Plan that is:
Climate action and gender equality cannot wait. That is why UN Women is actively working with our partners to ensure the new Gender Action Plan will deliver concrete results.
The approval of a new Gender Action Plan cannot be treated as a check-the-box exercise, with vague rhetoric and empty promises. To be clear, Parties must avoid submitting a GAP that:
The adoption of an ambitious Gender Action Plan is a matter of climate justice. A weak or absent GAP is not a neutral outcome. In fact, it risks undermining the effectiveness of the climate solutions and deepening the inequalities faced by those most impacted by the climate crisis, including Indigenous and rural women and youth.
Enough promises. More action. Women and girls everywhere are demanding a sustainable future – and their rightful place in it.
UN Women calls on global leaders to seize this moment to deliver a Gender Action Plan that is bold, inclusive and transformative. The climate crisis is not gender neutral. The solutions cannot be, either.
UN Women is present at COP30 in Brazil with a message: Gender equality must be front and centre across all climate solutions.
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