ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Canada and the importance of taking a gender perspective in developing and implementing Canada's climate policies. It highlights Canada's commitments to gender equality at the international and domestic levels, including the requirement to conduct gender-based analysis and the equality guarantee in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The chapter examines the role of gender from a procedural perspective, and specifically the participation of women in decision-making in areas of public policy relevant to the climate issue. It presents the results of analysis of existing federal climate regulation and selected climate reports, as well as provincial climate policies. The analysis aims to empirically assess whether gender was considered in any of these policies, and to support a discussion of what issues might arise from a gender-based analysis. The analysis shows that gender has been neglected in Canada's response to climate change.
