PANAMA CITY, Mar 07 (IPS) – The writer is Climate Change and Energy Policy Advisor, UNDP, Panama
The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. Access to clean energy improves women’s lives in a myriad of ways. It supports access to education and quality healthcare, opens new economic opportunities, and reduces unpaid domestic labour and gender-based violence. Yet too often, the sector as a whole – from industry to policymaking – still fails to include women as energy users, decision-makers and agents of change of the energy transition.
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