Feminist Climate Policy in Industrialised States A Gender-Just Climate Emergency Response

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Susan Buckingham, Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir, Karen Morrow, Martin Hultman

 Part I: Global

Chapter 1: To practice what you preach: Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in diplomatic work Malena Rosén Sundström & Ole Elgström

[Interview 1: Catherine McKenna, former Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Canada: International and National Role in Climate Policy

Interviewed by Dory Reeves and Julie MacArthur]

Chapter 2: A Globe of One’s Own: The Inverse Effect of Women’s Political Representation on GHG Emissions

Laura Winther Engelsbak

Chapter 3: To what extent can the European Union contribute to a feminist climate policy?

Gill Allwood

Chapter 4: The Ocean We Want: a feminist approach to the Ocean Decade

Susan Buckingham, Mariamalia Rodríguez-Chaves, Ellen Johannesen, Renis Auma Ojwala, Zhen Sun, Momoko Kitada, Francis Neat, Ronán Long

Chapter 5: Ensuring justice through good practice: Establishing the context for change across organisational scales

Seema Arora-Jonsson

[Interview 2: The Hon Marama Davidson, co-Leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand: The Importance of Grassroots and Community Action

Interviewed by Dory Reeves and Julie MacArthur]

Part II: Initiatives

Chapter 6: Gender Smart Mobility for all: Lessons learned from encounters with Danish Municipalities

Hilda Rømer Christensen and Michala Hvidt Breengaard

[Interview 3: Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona 2015–2023: Addressing the climate emergency in collaborative ways at the city level

Interviewed by Inés Novella Abril]

Chapter 7: What does degrowth say about gender equality and social justice?

Bipasha Baruah and Andrea Burke

[Interview 4: Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, ex-Leader of The Left-Green movement, and minister of social and labour affairs in Iceland

Interviewed by Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir]

Chapter 8: Climate change policies and gender equity: What are the views of women who work in construction?

Coralie Guedes, Vivian Price, Linda Clarke

Chapter 9: Applying Intersectionality in Climate Policy and Planning: Experiences from Gothenburg and Malmö

Nanna Rask, Angelica Lundgren, Annica Kronsell

[Interview 5: Marianne Borgen, Mayor of Oslo between 2015 and 2023

Interviewed by Susan Buckingham]

Part III: Methodologies

Chapter 10: Young people and old trees: posthuman intersectionality in Swedish climate litigation

Marie Widengård

Chapter 11: Participatory assessment workshops as a guiding tool towards just and inclusive energy strategies

Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir and Anders Melin

Chapter 12: Theatre and Stories that ReConnect: Embodiment practices that ecologise masculinities

Paul M. Pulé, Ilaria Olimpico, and Uri Noy Meir

Chapter 13: Photovoice: A tool for countering social path dependencies in climate institutions?

Heidi Walker, Amber J. Fletcher, Maureen G. Reed, Nicholas Antonini

Chapter 14: Feminist Climate Approaches: how, why and what?

Why we need Feminist Climate Approaches More Than Ever, what would they look like and How Do We Get There?

Martin Hultman, Karen Morrow, Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir, Susan Buckingham

Biography

Susan Buckingham is a writer, researcher, consultant, campaigner and activist. She edits the Routledge series on Gender and Environments, and her work develops the understanding of links between gender and environment and applies this to different contexts. Most recently, this has been in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and through consultancies with the European Commission, including EIGE. She has edited and written extensively, is on the editorial board of the environmental justice journal Local Environment, and is currently writing a book on Ecofeminism. As an activist-academic, Susan has worked with women’s organisations, and was a trustee and collaborator with Women’s Environmental Network from 2000–2012. Susan co-founded Friends of the Cam in 2020 which campaigns against destructive, masculinist planning and water pollution practices which are destroying the chalk streams of SE England. She is also an activist in climate and social justice campaigns.

Martin Hultman is Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Hultman leads three research groups analysing ‘masculinities and environment, ‘rights of nature’ and ‘climate change denial’. He heads the global research network Center for Studies of Climate Change Denial (CEFORCED) and was appointed the most influential academic in Gothenburg 2019 and awarded Linköping University alumnus of the year 2021. As part of his academic work he publishes chronicles in a wide range of newspapers and gives public lectures commenting on contemporary politics. Recent books include Ecological Masculinities (2018), Men, Masculinities and Earth (2021), Climate Obstruction (2022) and the forthcoming Survival: Rights of Nature, Degrowth and Ecological Masculinities at the end of Anthropocene.

Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University. Her main field of research is climate policy-making, in particular, how governmental authorities in Scandinavia and the European Union understand and work with gender and other issues related to the social dimensions of climate change and climate justice. Magnusdottir has published extensively on climate authorities, their practices, institutional norms and policy-making at different levels of governance. She currently leads a comparative research project on Gendered Norms and Practices in Nordic and Baltic Climate Policy Institutions: Implication for the Climate Transition (Nordforsk), exploring Nordic and Baltic governmental authorities and their institutional practices. She has previously been involved in various research projects financed by the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development and the Swedish Energy Agency, which circle around justice in climate and energy policy-making.

Karen Morrow has been Professor of Environmental Law at Swansea University (2007–date), and has formerly worked at Leeds University, Durham University, the Queen’s University of Belfast and the University of Buckingham. Her research interests centre on public participation in environmental law and policy-making, and in particular on gender in the global climate governance regime. Her work spans theory and practice and multiple levels of law and governance, from the global/international to national and subnational levels. She also works on environmental law and policy in cross-border contexts in the UK. She is a member of the Earth Systems Governance Tipping Point subgroup. She was a founding co-editor of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment and the IUCN e-journal. She sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, the Environmental Law Review and the University of Western Australia Law Review and on the International Advisory Board for the Gender and Environment book series (Routledge).