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Can Climate Finance Contribute to Gender Equity in Developing Countries?
Author(s) -
Wong Sam
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.3212
Subject(s) - climate finance , equity (law) , finance , climate change , economics , developing country , agriculture , business , natural resource economics , economic growth , political science , geography , ecology , archaeology , law , biology
Climate finance helps mobilise additional development funds to help developing countries reduce CO 2 emissions and local communities adapt to changing climate. Increasingly, however, concerns have been raised about the implications of climate finance on gender equity. Drawing on the ‘contextual‐procedural‐distributive’ equity framework, this paper conducts an extensive review of literature on forest sequestration, climate‐smart agriculture and disaster management. It indicates that the effectiveness of climate finance is constrained from a lack of awareness of the gender gap in access to land and capital. To maximise the impact of climate finance, it urges policy makers to tackle deeply rooted structural inequalities. © 2016 UNU‐WIDER. Journal of International Development published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.