Abstract
Abstract This chapter examines gender-based vulnerabilities and risks in the net zero transition and how natural resources law and policy can address those barriers. Achieving a just energy transition requires a gender-just approach. For decades, international legal instruments have emphasized the need to integrate gender perspectives in climate action and development efforts. However, women in many parts of the world continue to face deep vulnerabilities and barriers in the net zero energy transition process due to existing legal and social norms that make it difficult for them to participate in and influence decision-making processes. Drawing lessons from emerging gender mainstreaming efforts in the United Kingdom, this chapter examines transformative law and policy approaches for advancing gender-just planning and decision-making in the net zero transition. It identifies legal and institutional barriers to gender-just net zero policies in natural resources sectors in Africa and the dynamic legal innovation required to address them.
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