Data source: Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2024
From 21 October to 1 November, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) COP16 will be held in Cali, Colombia. UN Women will call for intensifying efforts to achieve a world at peace with nature, tackling gender inequalities and ensuring women’s and girls’ full, meaningful, and equal participation and leadership in biodiversity conservation.
From 11 to 24 November, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP29 will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan. UN Women will press on the need for gender-responsive just transitions away from dependence on fossil fuels, work to ensure that women and girls are included in climate adaptation and mitigation plans and programmes, and press for gender-responsive climate finance. COP29’s Gender Day will take place on 21 November, and feature a high-level event on gender equality, transparency, and accountability.
And from 2 to 13 December, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) COP16 will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. There, UN Women will advocate for women’s land rights as key to gender-responsive responses to droughts and land degradation.
At all three conferences, UN Women will work to integrate gender equality considerations in negotiations and decisions, and ensure that women’s and girls’ rights shape all policies and programmes on biodiversity, climate change, and desertification.