E/2011/27 E/CN.6/2011/12 Resolution 55/1 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 21 13 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 the priorities of the Hyogo Framework for Action 20052015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters, 14 in particular the need to promote the integration of risk reduction associated with existing climate variability and climate change into strategies for the reduction of disaster risk and adaptation to climate change and the need to integrate a gender perspective 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 the decision of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 9 November 2001 15 on improving the participation of women in the representation of parties in bodies established under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or the Kyoto Protocol, Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 10/4 of 25 March 2009, which recognizes 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, __________________ * For the discussion, see chap. II, paras. 79-84. Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum), resolution 1, annex I. 13 Ibid., annex II. 14 A/CONF.206/6 and Corr.1, chap. I, resolution 2. 15 See document FCCC/CP/2001/13/Add.4 and Corr.1, decision 36/CP.7. 12 16 11-28654