Shaping climate futures

Gender and Just Transition Pathways after COP30.

Online Event, 09/12/2025 - 11/12/2025

This year, COP30 in Belém marked a turning point in global climate governance by placing people and equity at the heart of climate action. With the approval of a Just Transition Mechanism and the adoption of the Belém Gender Action Plan, the conference affirmed that climate ambition cannot be achieved without addressing social and gendered dimensions.

The two-session webinar "Shaping Climate Futures: Gender and Just Transition Pathways after COP30” — co-organized by the Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division (ESP) and the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB) — will help translate COP30 global commitments into practical guidance for FAO offices, countries, and development partners working on agrifood systems.

By convening negotiators, practitioners, researchers, and civil society, the two-part event aims to spark ideas and spur efforts to design and implement equitable, resilient, and transformative climate actions.

SESSION 1 | The UNFCCC Gender Action Plan and Women in Agrifood Systems: From Global Commitments to Gender-Responsive Climate Action

Session 1 will feature speakers from the UNFCCC and national governments to unpack the outcomes of COP30 on gender, especially the Gender Action Plan (GAP), and explore how national action in agrifood systems will contribute to achieving the GAP. The session will draw on FAO’s technical work and country support—including with its partner, UNDP, through the SCALA Programme, and through the Scaling up gender and social inclusion under UNFCCC processes project —to link global developments with national implementation pathways.

WHEN: Tuesday, 9 December 2025 | 10:00 - 11.00 CET
FORMAT: Only virtual (Zoom)
REGISTER HERE FOR SESSION 1 https://bit.ly/48bzL32

Moderator:

Sibyl Nelson, Senior Climate Change Specialist - Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, FAO

Speakers:

Inkar Kadyrzhanova, Senior Natural Resources Officer - Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, FAO

Wiebke Bender, Programme Manager on Gender and Climate Change, UNFCCC

Julia Wolf, Deputy Lead of Climate Change Team - Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, FAO

Imelda Kanzomba, Principal Agricultural Officer - Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Uganda

Sudha Gooty, Senior Regional Advisor on Gender Equality, UNDP

Ilaria Sisto, Gender and Development Officer - Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division, FAO

SESSION 2 | Just Transition: Advancing Social Justice in Climate Action for Agrifood Systems

Session 2 will examine issues emerging from COP30 that relate to the question of how to achieve a just transition in agrifood systems. From a decision on the Just Transition Work Programme that included rural economic actors, small-scale farmers and food production, to the Belem Declaration on Hunger, Poverty and Human-Centred Climate Action, in which 44 Parties to the UNFCCC committed to pursuing a just transition that supports small-scale food producers and forest peoples, COP30 was a momentous conference for agrifood systems transformation. This session will examine the implications of these outcomes for agrifood systems and the people who work in them, and explore how we can collectively move from commitments to concrete action by shaping the development of the UNFCCC’s Just Transition Mechanism.

WHEN: Thursday, 11 December 2025 | 10:00 - 11.00 CET
FORMAT: Only virtual (Zoom)
REGISTER HERE FOR SESSION 2 https://bit.ly/48zmeBm

Moderator:

Simon Addison, Senior Economist - Inclusive Climate Action, Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division, FAO

Speakers:

Teresa Anderson, Global Lead on Climate Justice, ActionAid International

Tracy Kajumba, Director, LIFE-AR Secretariat, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Philip Kilonzo, Head of Policy, Advocacy and Communication, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA)

Camilla Roman, Senior Technical Specialist, Just Transition, International Labour Organization (ILO)

Marco Knowles, Senior Policy Officer - Social Protection, Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division, FAO

Inkar Kadyrzhanova, Senior Natural Resources Officer, Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, FAO