Category: News
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Gender and Energy Compact Call to Action 2026
Advancing Gender Equality for a Just Energy Transition – Powering Prosperity, Security and Stability, Leaving Nobody Behind Endorse the Call to Action Download the Call to Action Preamble and Shared Purpose We, the undersigned, reaffirm our collective conviction that a just, inclusive, secure, and sustainable energy transition cannot be achieved without the full, equal, and meaningful participation of women. Building on the…
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SEforALL Forum side event: Empowering Women in Leadership
The need for sex-disaggregated data, targeted funding and STEM education has come across loud and clear in the “Empowering Women in Leadership: Innovations, Finance, and Inclusive Transitions in Clean Energy” session at #SEforALLForum, organized by SEforALL and the Gender and Energy Compact. The session started out with opening remarks from H.E. Ms. María Erla Marelsdóttir,…
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Event Recap: Gender Track at the International Vienna Energy and Climate Forum
From October 30 to November 3, the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs organized the International Vienna Energy and Climate Forum (IVECF) and the Youth Solutions Days (YSD). For five days, government…
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Harnessing the power of gender data to transform the clean energy workforce
As a part of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2023, the Government of Iceland, the Gender and Energy Compact – led by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, and the Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET) – and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), co-hosted a side event entitled “Harnessing gender data…
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Powering Gender Equity: Women Entrepreneurs at the Forefront of Sustainable Energy Transition
NEW YORK, 23 March, 2023 – In the framework of the sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), together with ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, the Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET), and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), co-hosted a…
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Rethinking a gender-just energy transition with youth
Best side event at this conference! I felt like we were really given a platform to voice our thoughts and that our input was highly valued Bianca Garvin -Global Youth Ambassador for GAUC: Global Alliance of Universities on Climate Whilst the proportion of women in renewable energy jobs has increased in the last decade…
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Catalyzing action towards gender equality and women’s empowerment: Highlights from our events
The Gender and Energy Compact strives to catalyze action towards gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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Ample coalition launches Gender and Energy Compact
Today, a coalition, initiated by ENERGIA, Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and supported by the Governments of Iceland, Ecuador, Nepal, Kenya and Sweden launched a Gender and Energy Compact to catalyze action towards gender equality and women’s empowerment to accelerate a just, inclusive and sustainable energy transition.…