Study On Gender Mainstreaming In EU Climate Governance

In 2001,the European Commission emphasized in its Governance White Paper that the EU’s active participation in global governance is to ensure the promotion and implementation of the goals of peace,greenness,gender equality,and sustainability pursued by the EU at the global level.Looking beyond Europe,the white paper suggests that the EU should work to improve the effectiveness and performance of the institutions of the international community.In addition,the European Commission also emphasized that under successful international actions,the EU’s international recognition and internal value recognition will both increase.Based on this concept,the EU actively participates in the cause of global climate governance and plays a leading role.At the same time,the EU is also playing a leading role in promoting global gender equality and is committed to promoting gender mainstreaming at all levels.Since 2012,the European Union has formally incorporated the gender mainstreaming strategy into climate governance actions at the regional level,and gradually promoted this initiative and action to the international community from point to point.This series of actions can be seen as the EU’s "important answer sheet" in the field of global climate governance and gender equality,and it is thought-provoking:How does the EU walk in the forefront of the interdisciplinary field of gender and climate?Why?Has international agenda setting played a role in this process?If so,which stage of the process is most critical?Based on the above problems,this article intends to use the international agenda-setting framework as an analytical tool to sort out the background and internal causes of the EU’s gender mainstreaming strategy in climate governance actions,and analyze how the EU pushes the issue of gender and climate into the international system through agenda-setting and explore which processes played a key role during the EU’s international agenda-setting phase.The study found that under the background of conforming to the EU’s own values and responding to the demands of the present era,the EU has successfully promoted the issue of gender and climate to the international community through three steps of international agenda setting,the most critical of which is the second stage——Issue dissemination stage,because at this stage the EU can give full play to its subjective initiative to actively explore and use effective channels for issue dissemination.Specifically,the EU’s process of bringing gender mainstreaming into climate governance,from the proposal,dissemination and implementation,corresponds to the three steps of international agenda setting—"issue formation","issue dissemination",and "issue institutionalization".International agenda setting helps the EU to spread the concepts of climate neutrality and gender equality advocated by the EU to the international community in a relatively complete and comprehensive manner,and provides a more systematic explanation for the EU’s inclusion of gender mainstreaming in climate governance,so that the international community can accept and recognized.