Our Climate Future is Female: Women and Girls Leading Climate Action

Among the initiatives announced at COP 26:

• Administrator Samantha Power announced USAID will invest at least $14 million of the Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund toward gender-responsive climate programming.
• Administrator Power announced USAID will scale up its Advancing Gender in the Environment initiative, a partnership with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
• The White House Gender Policy Council announced the U.S. Government-wide Gender Equality and Equity Strategy prioritization of climate change. 
• NASA announced USAID and NASA’s partnership, SERVIR, is scaling up gender programming.
• The U.S. Department of Energy announced USAID and DOE are launching a new activity to empower women in energy.