ABSTRACT
This chapter establishes the relationships between gender equality, climate change and energy access in developing countries based on an extensive literature review. The chapter summarizes current knowledge of the gender dimension of climate change, making a distinction between adaptation and mitigation. Climate change and development are inextricably linked, as are development and gender equality. The literature available about the role of gender in climate change is large and has many points of agreement. Gender aspects of adaptation to climate change are better documented than gender aspects of mitigation. Mitigation of climate change is defined as an anthropogenic intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases. The chapter presents the relationship between gender and energy access. Compared to climate change, gender considerations are fully mainstreamed in energy access in developing countries at policy level, at project level and in research.
