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The session will offer an overview of gender-related mandated events and negotiations scheduled for SB 62, focusing on the initiation the development of a new gender action plan (decision 7/CP. 29, p. 1. The session will also provide participants with updates on gender and climate change stemming from the Commission on the Status of Women and Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
At COP 29, Parties agreed (Decision 7/CP.29) to extend the enhanced Lima Work Programme on Gender for a further ten years, reaffirming its critical role in advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women within the UNFCCC process. They also decided that the development of a new Gender Action Plan will commence at the sixty-second session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation in June 2025, with the aim of recommending a draft decision for consideration and adoption at COP 30 in November 2025.
Parties also agreed to request the Chair of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation, with the support of the secretariat, to organize a technical workshop, to be held at SB 62, to facilitate the design of gender action plan activities, with a view to informing the development of the new gender action plan.
Information on the review process is available here>
As directed by Decision 7/CP.29, the following mandated event will take place during SB 62:
In-session technical workshop to facilitate the design of gender action plan activities. The workshop will take place on 16, 18 and 19 June from 10:00 to 13:00 and 15:00 to 18:00 (TBC) in Bonn. The agenda and additional details will be shared soon.
The SB 62 provisional agenda and annotations is now available. In this session, the SBI will initiate the development of a new gender action plan.
