Introspecting Gender Concerns in National Action Plan for Climate Change of India
| Date | 01 June 2020 |
| Published date | 01 June 2020 |
| Author | Avantika Singh |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019556120922833 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Introspecting Gender
Concerns in National
Action Plan for
Climate Change
of India
Avantika Singh1
Abstract
The climate sceptics faltered at COP21 Paris summit after climate change was
accepted as a real threat. An agreement across tables on historical ‘polluters pay’
principle shifted the burden of curbing the emissions on developed economies.
However, gender concerns were conspicuous by their absence in all agreements.
Mary Robinson, a UN envoy at the summit precisely pointed out that Paris
climate summit’s gender imbalance with substantial male domination is inimical
to taking appropriate action to save people from climate change risks. The
research shows a poor track record with minimum or no presence of women
representatives in any breakthrough deal and discussion. There is a tendency
to avert their voices and concerns in any stamped deals done by governments
and organisations at international, national, sub-national levels. Despite such
gender omission, the policy discourse carries an inherent assumption of gender
neutrality while designing adaptation and mitigation efforts in averting climate-
related stress. This paper is an attempt to unravel such ungendered tendency, by
a critical examination of the National Action Plan for Climate Change in India to
bring out an apparent masculinisation of the policy discourse.
Keywords
Climate change, adaptation, vulnerability, National Action Plan on Climate
Change (NAPCC)
Article
Indian Journal of Public
Administration
66(2) 179–190, 2020
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1 Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Corresponding author:
Avantika Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, New Delhi
110007, India.
E-mail: avantika161@gmail.com
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