E/2011/27 E/CN.6/2011/12 Mainstreaming gender equality and promoting empowerment of women in climate change policies and strategies 79. At its 15th meeting, on 4 March, the representative of the Philippines introduced and orally revised the title of draft resolution E/CN.6/2011/L.1. The draft resolution read as follows: Mainstreaming gender equality and promoting empowerment of women in climate change policies and strategies The Commission on the Status of Women, Reaffirming the commitments in the Beijing Platform for Action3 under the critical area “Women and the environment”, Reaffirming also principle 20 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development,12 which recognizes that women have a vital role in environmental management and development, and in this regard recalling the objectives of Agenda 2113 relating to women, particularly with regard to women’s participation in national ecosystem management, Stressing the need to ensure women’s full enjoyment of all human rights and their effective participation in environmental decision-making at all levels and the need to integrate their concerns and gender equality perspectives in sustainable development policies and programmes, Recalling the agreed conclusions on women and the environment adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-first session and on environmental management and the mitigation of natural disasters adopted by the Commission at its forty-sixth session, Recalling also that the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters14 recognizes that a gender perspective should be integrated into all disaster risk management policies, plans and decision-making processes, including those related to risk assessment, early warning, information management and education training, Recalling further Human Rights Council resolution 10/4 of 25 March 2009, in which the Council recognized that while climate-change related impacts have a range of implications, the effects of climate change will be felt most acutely by those segments of the population that are already vulnerable owing to geography, gender, age, indigenous or minority status and disability, Deeply concerned that the adverse impacts of climate change on women and girls, especially those living in poverty, can be exacerbated by gender inequality and discrimination, Mindful that women who live in conditions of social exclusion have limited opportunities to participate in training and capacity-building and have less access to information related to all aspects of climate change, including on climate forecasts and related warnings, Recognizing that women are powerful agents of change with the potential to contribute innovative responses to the challenges posed by climate change, including by disasters, 36 11-28654