A/HRC/31/51 women particularly in the renewable energy sector. 72 Development programs that support the distribution of clean cook-stoves have had a significant impact on reducing emissions and limiting premature deaths and illness linked to indoor air pollution, particularly benefiting women and children. 73 72. Despite women’s role in collecting biofuels for household use, women are often excluded from energy plans and policies because energy is associated with electricity and fossil fuels and is therefore considered to be within men’s domain. 73. More needs to be done to improve opportunities for women to participate in the green economy, notably through ensuring that women benefit equally from employment opportunities arising from development projects focusing on clean technology and renewable energy.74 5. Adaptation Strategies 74. Adaptation strategies are adjustments made to ecological, social or economic systems in response to actual or expected effects or impacts of climate change. In general, adaptation policies and measures need to be gender sensitive, taking into account women’s lack of control and access to land, resources, transportation, information, technology, and ultimately decision-making.75 Data from several countries suggest that men and women have different needs, priorities, and preferences for adaptation and, indeed, men and women tend to report engaging in different adaptation strategies. Women tend to adopt certain practices more readily than men, including cover cropping with legumes to increase soil fertility and improve food security and feed management practices for livestock. 76 75. Oxfam researchers found that adaptation projects aimed at women created under Burkina Faso’s National Action Programme for Adaptation (NAPA) sought to diversity the ways that women can generate income to offset income lost by harvests damaged by climate change.77 In order to rectify these consequences, individuals and organizations need to be better educated on the different vulnerabilities that men and women face in disasters, and local women’s organizations need to be consulted in order to understand regionspecific contexts. Moreover, such attempts could have ancillary positive effects, as developing credit systems to aid families during times of famine, strengthening women’s organizations that promote adaptation measures, and addressing larger issues could prevent gender inequality. 78 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 UNDP , Powerful Synergies. Gender Equality, Economic Development, and Environmental Sustainability. (2012) http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/womensempowerment/powerful-synergies.html See Justice, Human Rights, and Climate Change: A Conversation with Mary Robinson, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Change, 39 Flecher F World A Letcher F. World AFF.. 9, 10 (2015) ILO, Green jobs: improving the climate for gender equality too!, 2008. http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@dgreports/@gender/documents/publication/wcms_10150 5.pdf Röhr, U. Gender, climate change and adaptation: Introduction to the gender dimensions. In Background paper prepared for the Both Ends Briefing Paper Berlin: Genanet. . (2007). http://www.unep.org/roa/amcen/Projects_Programme/climate_change/PreCop15/Proceedings/Gender -and-climate-change/Roehr_Gender_climate.pdf E. Bryan, P. Kristjanson and C. Ringler “Why paying attention to gender matters for climate change adaptation”, (2015) , IFPRI Blogh, (2015) S. Saulière. (2011), “Climate change and women farmers in Burkina Faso”. Oxfam Research Reports, (2011), www.oxfam.com/grow. UNDP “Resource guide on gender and climate change”(2009). 17