The Gender and Energy Compact at COP30

November 3, 2025

At COP30, the Gender and Energy Compact, its champion governments and signatories will convene global stakeholders to advance gender-transformative climate and energy solutions. These events spotlight inclusive strategies, data-driven approaches, and multi-sector collaboration to accelerate equitable energy transitions—ensuring women’s empowerment is central to climate action and sustainable development goals. Events will also highlight the solutions and strategies that the Gender and Energy Compact helped to advance under the COP30 Presidency’s Action Agenda.

We invite you to take part in this important global conversation. 

Tuesday, November 11

  • 📅 Tuesday, November 11
    🕟 10:00 - 11:00 (GMT -3)
    📍Blue Zone, Hangar Convention Center, INCLUDE Pavillion, PV-C77
    💡 Virtual dialogue

    Organized by Let there be Light International and Solar Health Uganda

  • 📅 Tuesday, November 11
    🕟 11:00-12:00 (GMT-3)
    📍Blue Zone, Hangar Convention Center, INCLUDE Pavillion, PV-C77
    💡 Round table

    Organized by Solar Cookers International

Wednesday, November 12

  • 📅 Wednesday, November 12
    🕟 15:30-16:30 (GMT-3)
    📍 Blue Zone, Axis 5 Thematic Room
    💡 Workshop

    Lead organizers: ILO, UNIDO
    Co-organizers: Gender and Energy Compact, Care about Climate, Student Energy, IRENA, Creatives for Climate, FAO's WFF Youth Initiative

    An interactive roundtable to co-create a New Global Multi-stakeholder Partnership to Empower Women and Youth for a Just Transition through skills development, entrepreneurship, enhanced policies and institutions and a global campaign. This multi-stakeholder event will mobilise implementing partners and invite new stakeholders to join the Plan to Accelerate Solution (PAS). 

     

         

                    

  • 📅 Wednesday, November 12
    🕟 16:30-17:30 (GMT-3)
    📍Blue Zone, SDG Pavillion
    💡 High-level Panel Discussion
    💻 Follow the discussion online: A decade of change: How the SDGs are transforming the lives of millions worldwide

    Organized by ENERGIA and UNIDO on behalf of the Gender and Energy Compact
    Co-organized by the Equality in Energy Transitions Initiative, GN-SEC, MPower Brasil

    Women remain underrepresented across the energy sector and are disproportionately affected by energy poverty, health risks, and limited access to finance and technology. Gender-blind policies further exacerbate these inequalities.  According to UN Women’s latest Gender Snapshot, if current trends continue, 321 million women will still be without access to electricity by 2030, including 275 million in Sub-Saharan Africa.

    Against this backdrop and spotlighting pathways to gender-transformative climate and energy policies, this event showcases evidence, entry points, and inclusive solutions to accelerate just energy transitions and strengthen cross-sector collaboration

     

                 

               

Thursday, November 13

  • 📅 Thursday November 13
    🕟 13:00-14:00 (GMT-3)
    📍Blue Zone, Hangar Convention Center, INCLUDE Pavillion, PV-C77
    💡 High-level fireside chat

    Organized by INCLUDE

  • 📅 Thursday November 13
    🕟 14:00-15:00 (GMT-3)
    📍Blue Zone, Axis 1 Thematic Room
    💡High-Level Dialogue

    Organized by the Gender and Energy Compact and Clean Energy Ministerial Equality Initiative

     

         

  • 📅 Thursday November 13
    🕟 14:00-15:00 (GMT-3)
    📍Blue Zone, Hangar Convention Center, INCLUDE Pavillion, PV-C77
    💡 Panel and Dialogue

    Organized by Taiwan Green Energy for Charity Association

  • 🗓️ November 13, 2025
    🕟 16:00-17:00 (GMT-3)
    📍Blue Zone, Hangar Convention Center, INCLUDE Pavillion, PV-C77
    💡 Fireside chat

    Organized by ESMAP, Iceland Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gender and Energy Compact

    This fireside chat will bring together leaders from government, private sector and civil society to discuss a chronic dilemma and fundamental question: Leadership in energy and climate has historically been male-dominated—Why, and how can redefining leadership to embrace women’s perspectives transform the sector? Specifically, the following key themes will be discussed:

    • Breaking Barriers: Addressing gender bias, stereotypes, and structural obstacles in energy and climate sectors.
    • Building Partnerships: Strengthening networks between civil society, government, and private sector for collective impact.
    • Innovative Solutions: Showcasing successful models for women’s leadership, mentorship, and capacity building.
    • Accountability & Data: The importance of gender-disaggregated data and robust monitoring for progress.

                         

Friday, November 14

  • 📅 Friday, November 14
    🕟 11:00-12:00 (GMT-3)
    📍UK Pavilion
    💡 Closed high-level dialogue

    Organized by United Kingdom Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

  • 🗓️ November 14, 2025
    🕟 12:30-13:30 (GMT-3)
    📍Blue Zone, Thematic space for Action Agenda
    💡Panel Discussion

    Organized by Student Energy, Care about Climate
    Co-organized by the Gender and Energy Compact/UNIDO

    This youth-led event emphasizes that NDCs are a shared responsibility across professions, generations, and communities. From agriculture and energy systems to marketing, education, and beyond, the event will spotlight how young people across diverse sectors can turn NDCs into action. With voices from diverse sectors, it will highlight how education, capacity building, and innovation can empower youth to implement inclusive, people-centered climate solutions.

     

                    

     

  • 📅 Friday, November 14
    🕟 12:30-13:30 (GMT-3)
    📍Blue Zone, UNFCCC Thematic Hub - Axis 6 Thematic Room
    💡 Plenary Discussion

    Organized by Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi, World Bank), Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator (AFCIA, WFP) and the Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (UNIDO), Climate Bridges

    This dialogue convenes the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (World Bank), World Food Programme, Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator, and UNIDO’s Global Cleantech Innovation Programme to accelerate climate innovation and scale up finance for women entrepreneurs unlocking triple wins for gender, jobs, and climate.


            

  • 📅 Friday, November 14
    🕟 17:30-19:00 (GMT-3)
    📍Regional Climate Foundations Pavilion
    💡 Panel Discussion

    Organized by IEA and Tara Climate Foundation

    Clean energy transitions present unique opportunities to create broad socio-economic benefits beyond emission reductions. Tracking these benefits can help highlight and communicate the positive socio-economic impacts of clean energy transitions across different population groups. Energy transitions should be fair and inclusive with genuine stakeholder engagement. Although much progress has been made on just energy transitions, stakeholders continue to ask for additional measures, such as indicators, to assess the quality and impact of just energy transition plans and policies.

    This side event will explore some of the following topics and questions: 

    • The role of indicators in designing inclusive energy policies and how they can ensure that energy transitions are fair and inclusive with special attention to community engagement and gender equity. How can these indicators support the development of NDCs and their associated plans?
    • How can stakeholders use indicators to track and assess energy policies and advocate for change? How can indicators ensure that stakeholders are more engaged in the policy making process to ensure that energy policies are fair and inclusive?
    • What are the specific challenges and opportunities facing Southeast Asia in its energy transitions? How can dedicated regional indicators help ensure just energy transitions across the region? What lessons can be shared with other regions?

     

           

     

  • 📅 Friday, November 14
    🕟 t.b.c.
    📍Blue Zone, Hangar Convention Center, INCLUDE Pavillion, PV-C77
    💡 Panel & Dialogue

    Organized by Women's Environment and Development Organization and SHINE Collab

         

Saturday, November 15

  • 📅 Saturday, November 15
    🕟 09:30-10:30 (GMT-3)
    📍 COP30 Presidency Energy Pavilion
    💡 High-Level Round Table

    Organized by IEA

    In 2025, and in support of South Africa’s G20 Presidency, Global Commission members collaborated to explore translating the voluntary G20 Principles for Just and Inclusive Transitions, endorsed by G20 leaders in Rio in 2024, into policy design, implementation, and tracking through the development of a Blueprint for Action and an Indicators Handbook for Just and Inclusive Energy Transitions. The Indicators Handbook, launched during the G20 Energy Transitions Working Group Ministerial Meeting in October 2025, is meant as a starting point to spur international collaboration.

    Organised in the context of COP30 under Brazil’s presidency, this roundtable discussion will mark an opportunity for members of the Commission and other invited high-level participants, to reflect on the key issues raised by the Indicators Handbook, including energy planning, jobs and skills, affordability, and gender equity among others, and discuss ways forward for accelerating international commitments on just and inclusive energy transitions.

     

Monday, November 17

  • 📅 Monday, November 17
    🕟 t.b.c.
    📍Blue Zone, Hangar Convention Center, INCLUDE Pavillion, PV-C77
    💡 Panel & Dialogue

    Organized by Women's Environment and Development Organization and SHINE Collab

         

  • 📅 Monday, November 17
    🕟 9:00 – 10:00 (GMT-3)
    📍CARICOM Pavilion
    💡Panel Discussion

    Organized by Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE)
    Co-organizers: UNIDO, GN-SEC, Gender Energy Compact

    Description: The Caribbean’s pathway to net-zero must be built on justice, inclusion, and human resilience. For Small Island Developing States, a just transition means ensuring that
    women, youth, Indigenous peoples, and marginalized groups have equitable access to
    opportunities in clean energy and climate resilience.

    Energy transitions that overlook social equity risk reinforcing existing inequalities.
    Conversely, people-centered energy systems can empower women as entrepreneurs,
    support youth as innovators, and enable communities to lead adaptation and recovery
    efforts.

    This dialogue situates the just transition within the broader climate adaptation and loss
    and damage agenda, recognizing the growing leadership of Caribbean youth networks
    and gender focused programming which provides new opportunities for locally rooted,
    community-driven resilience programmes across CARICOM.

     

               

Tuesday, November 18

  • 📅 Tuesday, November 18
    🕟 10:00-11:00 (GMT-3)
    📍Blue Zone, Hangar Convention Center, INCLUDE Pavillion, PV-C77
    💡 Panel and Dialogue

    Organized by SNV

Wednesday, November 19

  • 📅 Wednesday, November 19
    🕟 11:00-12:00 (GMT-3)
    📍Blue Zone, Hangar Convention Center, INCLUDE Pavillion, PV-C77
    💡 Round table

    Organized by Biozid Climate Institute