RE-Thinking The Role Of Climate Technology For Women’s Empowerment

In achieving its unique mandate to accelerate inclusive and sustainable industrial development, UNIDO recognizes access to sustainable energy for productive uses as a key catalyst for inclusive and sustainable economic development. In particular, UNIDO focuses on the role of women as agents in promoting and using climate technologies and renewable energy solutions – recognizing that women can take the initiative and play a key role in driving innovative actions to abate greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the risks posed by climate change. UN Women recognizes in addition that climate mitigation and adaptation technologies, especially in the field of renewable energy, can be a catalyst for women’s economic empowerment and the promotion of gender equality.

During this webinar hosted by EmpowerWomen.org and organized by UNIDO in cooperation with the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), UN Women, and ENERGIA on 6 May at 8:30 am (EDT), experts and entrepreneurs in the field of sustainable energy invited us to RE-Think the role of climate technologies for women’s empowerment. To facilitate discussion and knowledge exchange on the nexus between mutually reinforcing linkages of gender, climate technologies, sustainable energy, and inclusive and sustainable industrial development, we brought together prominent experts in the field of gender and sustainable energy.

Experts included Joy Clancy, from the University of Twente; Wandee Khunchornyakong, who runs Solar Power Company Group, the largest solar power generation company in Thailand; Monica Christy, Senior Programme Officer representing Kopernik’s Ibu Inspirasi initiative; and Ondina da Barca Vieira, from UN Women in Mozambique. Discussions focused on innovative solutions for the successful transfer of climate technologies that engage women as key actors, as well as on enabling conditions for empowering women as agents of change in driving innovative climate actions, and the role of climate technologies in accelerating women’s economic empowerment.

The recording will be made available soon!

Download the presentations:

Welcome and Introduction
Alois Mhlanga, UNIDO

Energy-Gender-Technology-Climate Change Nexus
Joy Clancy, University of Twente

Ibu Inspirasi Initiative, Indonesia
Monica Christy, Kopernik

Pioneering Commercial Solar Farm, Thailand
Wandee Khunchornyakong, Solar Power Company Group

Access to Energy Technologies as Entry Point for Women’s Socio and Economic Empowerment, Mozambique
Ondina da Barca Vieira, UN Women