| dc.description.abstract | Women have been noted to be key contributors in seeking strategies to mitigation and
adaptation in respect to climate change. Research has acknowledged that due to women’s
socially constructed gender roles, enhancing their access to economic and social resources
is a key contributor to the promotion of better mitigation and adaptation outcomes. It has,
however, been observed that despite this realization, climate finances are usually unequally
distributed and with unequal participation of men and women during the distribution or
consideration for distribution. The available research has, however, not adequately analyzed
the role of law in ensuring that equal distribution is achieved. It is therefore important for
the barriers against women’s equal access to climate finance to be eliminated, from a legal
perspective. Although various strategies have been developed for ensuring the realization
of climate finance, there is need to legally strengthen the financing through more gender
equitable ways. This article therefore employs the doctrinal research method to analyze the
adequacy of the existing climate change legal framework in ensuring equal distribution of
climate finance in respect to women. The article also analyzes a few of the non-legal factors
which are contributors to unequal distribution of climate finance. The article concludes that
legal recognition of equitable climate finance distribution will go a long way in contributing to
the realization of climate change mitigation and adaptation. In addition, the chapter makes
recommendations on improved ways of ensuring equitable distribution of climate finance. | en_US |
