📋 Tender Overview
The Transversal Women and Climate Strategy, one of the five axes that make up the transversal structure of the Climate Plan, has been under public consultation since this Wednesday (17/12) on the Brasil Participativo platform.
The document, the first to structure Brazilian environmental policy based on gender equality, was officially presented by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) during COP30, held in November in Belem (PA). The consultation, which can be accessed, runs until January 15, 2026.
Prepared within the scope of the Climate Plan, the strategy explains the evidence that the climate crisis intensifies differences and affects women and girls disproportionately -- especially black, indigenous, quilombola, riverside, peripheral and traditional peoples and communities. At the same time, it recognizes that they are the ones who lead solutions, innovation and socio-environmental protection in their territories.
The document establishes guidelines and guiding mechanisms for the federal government, states and municipalities to incorporate a gender perspective in policies, plans, programs and financing related to climate action.
It also proposes mitigation with gender justice, ensuring a fair transition, integrated adaptation, considering structural inequalities and specific vulnerabilities, strengthening female leadership in risk management, emergencies and disasters, in addition to the incorporation of indicators, protocols, regulatory instruments and inclusive climate governance.
The director of the Department of Mitigation Policies and Implementation Instruments of the National Secretariat for Climate Change of the MMA, Lidiane Melo, explained that the initiative arose from a demand from the Ministry of Women for the inclusion of gender in the countrys climate policy. From then on, the articulations began.
Gender discussions cannot only be cuts from a plan, the topic must be treated as a center of discussion. The work developed so far is, in addition to being innovative, disruptive, as it breaks with standards and puts women at the forefront of the topic. According to Melo, the Strategy will allow gender issues to be monitored within the scope of mitigation and adaptation actions and the implementation of policies to be supported by specific indicators.
The Transversal Strategies for Climate Action form the third axis of the Climate Plan, together with the National Adaptation Strategy, and its 16 sectoral plans, and the National Mitigation Strategy, with eight sectoral plans. They comprehensively incorporate issues that cross-cut the themes of mitigation and adaptation: just transition and climate justice; means of implementation; education, training, research, development and innovation; monitoring, management, evaluation and transparency; and women and climate.
With the public consultation of the Women and Climate axis, all transversal strategies are currently being submitted to society for opinion. The remaining strategies remain under evaluation until December 25th. After this process, the documents will be finalized and submitted for approval to the Executive Subcommittee of the Interministerial Committee on Climate Change (Subex/CIM) and subsequently to the CIM, the highest body for Brazilian climate governance.
