United Nations Women (UN WOMEN)
www.unwomen.org
HQ: New York, USA
Focal Point: Marianna Belsky
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
“UN Women’s vision is of a world where urgent, informed choices are made to prioritize the flourishing and survival of both people and planet, orienting economic policies and investments towards accelerated sustainability, resilience, equality and social justice, and to support caregiving for each other and the natural environment, upon which all life depends. Working to achieve gender equality, women’s rights, and women’s empowerment goes hand-in-hand with efforts to address the climate emergency, the consequences of which are most dire for women and girls.”
Sima Sami Bahous, UN Women Executive Director
MISSION
UN Women is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide. UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide.
ALIGNMENT WITH THE STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT IN THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM, 2020–2030
UN Women acknowledges the critical nature of aligning with the UN Strategy for Sustainability Management in the UN System 2020-2030. UN Women continues to strive in its efforts to successfully align with this important area of management.
EMISSIONS REDUCTION
UN Women has participated in the UN Greenhouse Gas (GHG) exercise since 2010. UN Women has achieved measurable reductions since 2010.
EMS and REDUCTION EFFORTS
Not applicable to UN Women at this time.
Each year, as part of the Greening the Blue Report on Environmental Governance, each participating UN entity’s progress on the development of an Environmental Management System (EMS) is evaluated according to the UN system’s EMS criteria (these criteria are available on the Methodology webpage). Upon this evaluation the entity is then rated Exceeds, Meets, Approaches, or No response. For the 2022 reporting year, UN Women’s progress on the EMS is rated as: Does not meet.
ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL SAFEGUARDS AND STANDARDS IN POLICIES, PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES
UN Women is working on an environmental and social standards procedure to apply to programmes and project, planned to be in place for Q1 2023.
For the 2022 reporting year, UN Women’s status of implementing environmental and social safeguards and standards in their policies, projects and programmes is: Yes.
ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING FOR PERSONNEL
As part of the roll out of the environmental and social standards procedure, there will be a number of trainings offered and also guidance notes.
For the 2022 reporting year, UN Women’s status on providing training on environmental sustainability is No.
ENVIRONMENTAL INVENTORY APPROACH
UN Women works with the SUN Team and provides the necessary data for the proxies.
OFFSETTING
UN Women continues to strive toward improved accuracy of its assessment process and increased participation from all its regional and country offices.
WASTE MANAGEMENT
UN Women does not have a systematic method of measuring waste. In some locations building management provides data on waste generated for the year.
WATER AND WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT
UN Women does not have a systematic method of measuring water and wastewater. In some locations building management provides the data on water usage for the year.
NEXT STEPS
UN Women aims to target high emission areas identified by its internal green-house gas assessments.