Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

COP27: Discussion

Mr. Niall McLoughlin:

Absolutely. We have an expert in the gender group at the negotiating table. We certainly will push for it. The mid-term review of the gender action plan was scheduled to be completed in Bonn back in June. That will continue at COP27 following a lack of agreement there. There were two major issues arising from discussions, which were, again, financial support for the secretariat for national gender and climate change focal points and increased funding to be made available for multilateral climate funds for gender responsive climate action in developing countries. what I am saying is that a member of my division sits in that space. We will certainly push for that. I apologise for not being clear on whether that is mandatory already.