This briefing note examines pledges that bring together efforts to achieve gender equality and climate goals.

We analyse outcomes from 2022 to 2024 across three forums: the Group of Seven (G7), a group of historic greenhouse gas emitters; the Group of 20 (G20), the world's largest economies; and the universal decisions made under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations.

Across the three fora, we find that outcomes share language related to: 1) framing the nexus of gender and climate change 2) equal participation in climate decision-making 3) gender-responsive climate polices and 4) gender-responsive climate finance.

However, the commitments of these forums and prospects for future progress are threatened by two aspects: firstly the accelerated erosion of global human rights norms related to gender, and secondly the resurgence of strategies and discourses that delay meaningful climate action, or ‘climate delayism’.

These findings serve as a baseline to collectively chart progress, as well as degrees of norm-spoiling and climate delayism, in future multilateral negotiations.

Paper by the Overseas Development Institute