Since 2008, the Human Rights Council (HRC) has brought a human rights lens to climate action, playing a leading role in analysing and recognising the links between climate change and human rights.

However, less is known about how the HRC addresses gender and climate change as an interconnected issue - that is, how it considers the specific dynamics and impacts that emerge at the intersection of gender inequality and climate change.

This briefing paper examines how gender and climate change have been addressed together in resolutions adopted across all HRC sessions between 2022 and 2025. It establishes a baseline for understanding how the gender–climate nexus is addressed within the HRC, and provides a foundation for tracking future progress.

This paper forms part of a wider body of ODI Global work which has established a baseline of commitments at the gender–climate nexus across other multilateral forums - G7, G20 and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - between 2022 and 2024.