ABSTRACT
Climate change was originally characterised in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1992 (UNFCCC) as a largely, scientific issue, albeit with strong economic ramifications. In short, climate change constitutes a very different practical and regulatory proposition to any environmental law issue hitherto. Climate change, like sustainability, features elements of scale, complexity and ubiquity that by their very nature make addressing it effectively a collaborative endeavour for society as a whole. The UNFCCC's failure to engage with gender in the context of climate change is difficult to justify for a number of reasons. In the first place, gender is recognised as a salient factor in climate change impacts as a manifestation of the broader understanding that women are both agents of and affected by environmental degradation in highly particularised ways.
