A/HRC/41/26 4. Addis Ababa Action Agenda 41. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development calls for transparent methodologies, policy coherence, and climate finance, as well as gender equality and women’s empowerment at all levels. Specifically, it calls for reporting of resource allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment, highlights the role of the private sector and development banks in safeguarding or expanding upon systems to uphold human rights and gender equality, and calls for integrated policies and plans for resource efficiency and adaptation to and mitigation of climate change. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda calls for gender mainstreaming in “the formulation and implementation of all financial, economic, environmental and social policies”. 5. Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 42. The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action aims to “ensure the full implementation of the human rights of women and of the girl child as an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of all human rights and fundamental freedoms”.77 It states that the “eradication of poverty based on sustained economic growth, social development, environmental protection and social justice requires the involvement of women in economic and social development, equal opportunities and the full and equal participation of women and men as agents and beneficiaries of people-centred sustainable development”. 78 The Platform for Action provides a blueprint for women’s empowerment, identifying the environment as a critical area. It calls for involving women actively in environmental decision-making at all levels, integrating gender concerns and perspectives in policies and programmes for sustainable development, and strengthening or establishing mechanisms at the national, regional and international levels to assess the impact of development and environmental policies on women. 6. Commission on the Status of Women 43. The Commission on the Status of Women has issued a number of conclusions on environmental management, the mitigation of natural disasters and climate change. At its fifty-second session, citing the often disproportionate impacts of climate change on women, combined with women’s unequal access to resources and decision-making processes, the Commission stressed that a gender perspective was critical in all aspects of climate change. At its fifty-fifth session, the Commission adopted a resolution entitled “Mainstreaming gender equality and promoting empowerment of women in climate change policies and strategies”.79 The Commission has also consistently called for action with respect to the disproportionate impact of climate change on women, in its agreed conclusions. 80 7. Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 44. According to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a gender perspective should be integrated in all policies and practices and women’s leadership should be promoted. The Sendai Framework recognizes the importance of women’s participation, and encourages States to promote this participation and provide adequate capacity-building measures for women’s empowerment. Regional commitments for disaster risk reduction build upon this global commitment. For instance, the Asia Regional Plan for Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 encourages States to ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making for disaster risk reduction, and to establish gender-responsive and participatory stakeholder and sectoral platforms. 77 78 79 80 Beijing Declaration, para. 9. Ibid., para. 16. Resolution 55/1. Agreed conclusions from the Commission’s sixty-second, sixty-first, sixtieth, fifty-eighth, fiftyseventh, fifty-fifth, fifty-third and fifty-second sessions. 13