BETD 2024: Panel – Just Transition and Gender – Leave No One Behind

As part of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue (BETD) 2024, a global forum on the energy transition, this session will highlight the importance of ensuring an equitable and gender-just transition to renewable energy, aiming to dismantle structural disadvantages.

The need for skilled workers also holds the chance to break down entry barriers that women, especially those experiencing multiple forms of discrimination, and other minorities face. To initiate meaningful action and facilitate lasting change, awareness of the interconnectedness of gender and diversity must be raised within all social, institutional, and political bodies, including within the energy sector.

The panel discussion will focus on policy design and energy planning, including intersectionality to combat discrimination to achieve a just and equitable energy transition. There will also be a discussion on the role of privileged groups in reshaping the structures that perpetuate discrimination and the concept of allyship.