Hanoi (VNA) - Gender mainstreaming in climate change policies is crucialto promoting gender equality in Vietnam, according to Deputy Director of theInstitute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment (ISPONRE)Nguyen Trung Thang.

At a workshop held in Hanoi on April 28, Thang said that ISPONRE carried out researchon the state of gender equality in climate change policies in Vietnam, withfocus sharpened on the four sectors of renewable energy, agriculture, waterresources management, and garbage management.

The research showed that Vietnam has made efforts to complete policies ongender equality and climate change response but pointed out that women’s participationin policy making and management is limited.

Additionally, a lack of information and data on climate change’s impacts has affectedthe building and implementation of climate change policies with gendermainstreaming, he said.

The Vietnamese Government integrated gender equality and social inclusion inits updated Nationally Determined Contribution, which was submitted to theUnited Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in September 2020.

Vietnam is among six countries hardest hit by extreme weather that killed 286people and resulted in economic losses of 2 billion USD each year over the lasttwo decades.

In a bid to cope with future challenges, Vietnam should adopt more ambitious targetsto evaluate the state of gender mainstreaming in climate change policies, accordingto Swedish Ambassador to Vietnam Anne Mawe.

Experts at the workshop suggested promoting the application of technical instructionon gender mainstreaming in climate change policies in combination with the implementationof other development plans./.