CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Schmid, Fabiana |
|---|---|
| Title | Shaping a Climate-Just World Unravelling Gender Gaps in the EU's External Climate Policy |
| Summary | Gender plays a role in both a person’s impact on the climate and their experience of the climate crisis. Studies show that gender equitable societies have a lower carbon footprint. At the same time, climate change is a ‘threat multiplier’ and escalates any social, political or economic tensions and inequalities in fragile settings. To assume that a one-dimensional solution for climate change is sufficient to resolve present inequalities is therefore a fallacy. This thesis zooms in on the EU’s external climate policy and gender and asks: What is the level of gender integration in the EU’s external climate policy, and to what extent does it align with eco- feminist principles? Subsequently, this thesis aims to provide concrete action steps and poses the question: What strategies or measures can the EU adopt to enhance its role as a gender- transformative normative power in its external climate policy? The methodology combines a document analysis and expert interviews. Both types of data indicate that gender integration in the EU’s external climate policy is insufficient. This shortfall can be attributed to lacking political will, institutional resistance, and lack of awareness, knowledge, and capacity. Seven measures were identified that can make the EU’s external climate policy gender- transformative. They can help the EU to re-gain credibility as normative power by actively improving the situation at home and offer important opportunities for structural transformation through epistemic justice. |
| Supervisor | Bodenstein, Thilo; Moulton, Jeremy |
| Department | School of Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/schmid_fabiana.pdf |
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