ABSTRACT

Climate change and gender issues are explicitly addressed by many UK trade unions and environmental groups, with high priority often given to one or both. This chapter suggests possible reasons why a more integrated approach is not more widespread, which may need to be addressed if combined development in these two areas is to occur more extensively. Grey literature from UK trade unions typically presents climate change and gender as important issues, although as further examination shows, these issues are more separated than integrated in their analysis and activism. Feminist activists were particularly well placed to comment on the complexities and possible tensions in integrating climate change and gender analysis and activism. Deep Green Resistance (DGR) is a radical feminist environmental group that combines a steering and an administrative committee with horizontal organizing throughout the rest of its membership and affiliated groups.