ABSTRACT
The EU presents itself as a global climate actor and a global gender actor. Although it has not introduced a Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) or a Feminist Climate Policy (FCP), there are calls for it to do so, from civil society organisations and from within its own institutions, particularly the European Parliament. Tracing the relation between FFP and FCP, this chapter asks to what extent the EU can contribute to the latter. It does so through a combination of content analysis of key EU policy documents and a feminist institutionalist analysis of EU climate policy. Civil society documents, drawn from organisations that advocate for an FCP in the EU, are used to inform the analysis and to expose the differences between the meanings attributed to the term ‘feminist’ by the various actors. The chapter concludes that the EU has the potential to contribute to an FCP, but this potential has not yet been realised. It argues that an EU FCP has to be more than a climate-focused version of FFP.
