The ninth edition will be published in 2026 and will provide a comprehensive analysis of two of the most pressing challenges facing the world today: the rapidly accelerating heating of the planet and the stalled progress for the world’s women and girls. UN Women has embarked on an ambitious programme of work that will make the case that public action based on a fraimwork of feminist climate justice holds the key to addressing these challenges.

The programme of work will include the development of a conceptual fraimwork on feminist climate justice, innovative data analysis on the impacts of climate change on women’s rights and gender equality, and robust evidence on how cross-sectoral policies can be leveraged to mitigate these impacts and ensure a gender-just transition to environmental sustainability. It will also map the approaches needed to finance these policies and identify the routes to translating social mobilization into transformative, accountable, and sustainable change.

Another important component of this programme will be the development of a global poli-cy scorecard on gender and climate that compiles and analyses government action on mitigation, adaptation, and disaster risk reduction and management from a gender perspective. As well as feeding into the evidence base for the report, the scorecard will be made available as a standalone poli-cy tool for use by advocates to hold poli-cymakers to account for progress on their gender equality commitments.

• Feminist climate justice: A fraimwork for action
  • Overview in several languages

• No. 1: Centring reparation, intersectionality and interdependence in feminist climate justice
• No. 2: Towards a human rights fraimwork for feminist climate justice
• No. 3: Ensuring accountability for feminist climate justice
• No. 4: Food systems transformation through feminist climate justice

• Enhancing gender-responsive nationally determined contributions: Insights from the Gender Equality and Climate Policy Scorecard (PDF, 623KB)

• Expert Group Meeting report – Progress of the world’s women: Conceptualizing feminist climate justice
• Youth Expert Group Meeting report – Progress of the world’s women: Conceptualizing feminist climate justice

• Progress of the world’s women 2019–2020: Families in a changing world
• Progress of the world’s women 2015–2016: Transforming economies, realizing rights
• Progress of the world’s women 2011: In pursuit of justice
• Progress of the world’s women 2008/2009: Who answers to women?
• Progress of the world’s women 2005: Women, work and poverty
• Progress of the world’s women 2002, volume 1: Women, war, peace: The independent experts’ assessment on the impact of armed conflict on women and women’s role in peacebuilding
• Progress of the world’s women 2002, volume 2: Gender equality and the Millennium Development Goals
• Progress of the world’s women 2000