At COP29, Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will complete a final review of the Enhanced Lima Work Programme on Gender and its Gender Action Plan, which will expire in 2024. First adopted just ten years ago, the Lima Work Programme and its subsequent Gender Action Plan—or GAP—have represented a significant step forward in global climate policy, working to ensure that UNFCCC processes and decisions formally include gender considerations for the first time. As with any internationally negotiated policy text, however, the current GAP is imperfect and lacks robust integration of an essential tool for advancing gender-responsive climate action: gender data.
