Maximising positive impacts of climate finance by linking biodiversity conservation, the promotion of gender equality, and climate change adaptation

通过将生物多样性保护、促进性别平等和气候变化适应联系起来，最大限度地发挥气候融资的积极影响

• 批准号: 2261441
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2261441
• 关键词: Maximising; positive; impacts; climate; finance

The purpose of my PhD is twofold:1. To identify how climate finance can be used to maximise the impact on biodiversity conservation and the promotion of gender equality.Hypothesis: Climate finance, in certain circumstances, can be used to co-benefit biodiversity conservation and the promotion of gender equality.2. To analyse how the integration of biodiversity conservation and gender equality into climate finance can create a positive feedback loop, contributing to climate changeadaptation and mitigation.Hypothesis: Using climate finance to promote biodiversity conservation and gender equality results in a positive impact on climate change adaptation and mitigation.The use of climate finance to co-benefit other development goals, which do not fit directly under climate action, remains underexplored (Aguilar et al., 2015 Cela et al., 2013). Theco-benefits of climate finance on other SDGs could conversely generate a positive feedback loop, contributing to the implementation of climate change adaptation andmitigation actions (OECD, 2013 Mant et al., 2014).The role of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the adaptation and mitigation of climate change is well established (The World Bank, 2009 European Commission, 2009).Hitherto, there is a particular gap in the literature on the positive effects that climate finance could have on biodiversity conservation (SDG 15), even though examples of existing tradeoffsbetween climate change action and biodiversity conservation has been documented (Nelson, 2008). There is a need to determine conditions under which climate financing can provide additional benefits to biodiversity conservation (The Federal Environment Ministry, 2017). The existing scholarship also largely overlooks the potential benefits of empowering and integrating underrepresented groups (especially women, SDG 5) in programmes aimedat fighting climate change and biodiversity loss (Adams, 2014). Early research and awareness raising on the linkages between gender and climate change predominantly framed women in terms of their vulnerability to climate impacts (OECD, 2015 Claire International, 2010 Neumayer & Plumper, 2007). This framing made the link between women and climate change adaptation more relevant to policymakers than the link of women to areas such as mitigation and technology. Consequently, decisions that reference gender are the lowest for mitigation issues, with no guiding mandate for gender-sensitive mitigation actions (Aguilar et al., 2015b). The frequent exclusion of women fromclimate actions also constitutes an economic inefficiency, as their local knowledge and expertise could be used to implement climate change action and biodiversity conservation (United Nations, 2009).The proposed PhD aims precisely at addressing these gaps.

我的博士学位的目的是双重的：1。确定如何利用气候融资最大限度地发挥对生物多样性保护和促进性别平等的影响。假设：在某些情况下，气候融资可用于生物多样性保护和促进性别平等的共同受益。分析将生物多样性保护和性别平等纳入气候融资如何能够创造一个积极的反馈循环，促进气候变化的适应和减缓。利用气候融资促进生物多样性保护和性别平等，对适应和减缓气候变化产生积极影响。利用气候融资共同受益于其他发展目标，这些目标不适合直接纳入气候行动，仍然未被充分研究（阿吉拉尔等人，2015 Cela等人，2013年）。气候融资对其他可持续发展目标的生态效益反过来可以产生正反馈循环，有助于实施气候变化适应和缓解行动（经合组织，2013年Mant等人，2014).生物多样性和生态系统服务在适应和减缓气候变化方面的作用已得到公认（世界银行，2009年欧洲委员会，2009年）.然而，在气候融资对生物多样性保护（可持续发展目标15）的积极影响方面，文献中存在着一个特殊的空白，即使气候变化行动和生物多样性保护之间现有权衡的例子已经被记录在案（纳尔逊，2008）。有必要确定气候融资可以为生物多样性保护提供额外利益的条件（联邦环境部，2017年）。现有的奖学金也在很大程度上忽视了在旨在应对气候变化和生物多样性丧失的方案中赋予代表性不足的群体（特别是妇女，可持续发展目标5）权力和将其纳入的潜在好处（亚当斯，2014年）。关于性别与气候变化之间联系的早期研究和提高认识活动主要是从妇女易受气候影响的角度来界定妇女（经合组织，2015年，Claire International，2010年，Neumayer & Plumper，2007年）。这种框架使妇女与适应气候变化之间的联系比妇女与减缓和技术等领域的联系更能吸引决策者。因此，涉及性别的决定在缓解问题上的比例最低，没有对性别敏感的缓解行动进行指导（阿吉拉尔等人，2015年b）。妇女经常被排除在气候行动之外也构成了经济效率低下，因为她们的当地知识和专长可以用于实施气候变化行动和生物多样性保护（联合国，2009年）。