The Interdisciplinary Observatory on Climate Change is launching another edition of the Cadernos do OIMC series, our publication dedicated to academic texts on various aspects of the climate emergency. In its twentieth volume, Cadernos presents the article From the feminisation of climate responsibility to feminist climate responsibility: challenges and opportunities for COP30, written by political scientist Bruna Soares de Aguiar (IRI/PUC-Rio). The text offers recommendations for integrating a gender lens into climate change debates, from a feminist perspective, in the context of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30).
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This study proposes a critical feminist approach that challenges this logic and suggests concrete recommendations for the preparation of COP30, with the aim of generating transformative impacts. From the feminist perspective of climate responsibility, it argues that the intersection between the climate and gender agendas must go beyond numerical inclusion, promoting the redistribution of power, business regulation and the recognition of care economics as the central axis of climate policies.
PhD in Political Science from the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ), with a “sandwich” research experience at the University Institute for Research on Women’s and Gender Studies of the University of Granada (IMujer – Espanha), Bruna Soares de Aguiar is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of International Relations of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio) and a researcher at the World Political Analysis Laboratory (LABMUNDO). She works in the area of Feminist Foreign Policy and Feminist Cooperation, contributing as Project Coordinator of the Observatory of Inclusive Feminist Foreign Policy (OPEFI).
Recently, the author published the book Feminist Foreign Policy as government branding: is there congruence between institutional norms and cooperation practices? (Editora Appris, 2025). On 15 August 2025, the Observatory, in partnership with LABMUNDO, is organising a seminar to celebrate the release of the book, gathering the author, other researchers from the Laboratory and invited experts at the IESP-UERJ headquarters.
