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SUMMARY:Reimagining Climate Finance in Southeast Asia: Gender, Power, and the Politics of Climate Actions
LOCATION:Room 153
DESCRIPTION:Climate finance has become a fundamental component of both nati
 onal and international responses to the climate crisis. However, it is ofte
 n presented as a technical challenge of mobilising sufficient resources for
  climate mitigation and adaptation. Across Southeast Asia, governmental fin
 ancial allocations, global climate funding, development finance, and privat
 e investments intersect with persistent inequalities in gender, socioeconom
 ic status, political power, and access to decision-making. This roundtable 
 brings together perspectives from feminist political economy, political eco
 logy, environmental justice to examine these dynamics shape public policy, 
 just energy transition and community development across different scales an
 d locations of climate action in Southeast Asia. Drawing on experiences fro
 m Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, participants will explore how c
 limate finance decisions may perpetuate existing inequalities when question
 s of livelihoods, gender, institutional power and local community agency ar
 e not adequately considered. Acknowledging that finance is not neutral, the
  roundtable will explore how financial choices shape whose priorities are v
 alued, who has access to decision-making arenas, who bears the risks, and w
 ho benefits from climate actions.\nSome of the questions we aim to discuss 
 are:\n\n- How do gendered power structures, historical and systemic inequal
 ities influence access to climate finance?\n- How do we design budgets, inv
 estment, and climate mechanism for just climate actions?\n- What role do na
 tional budgets, donors, and multilateral institutions play in shaping prior
 ities?\n- What forms of participation and governance would enable communiti
 es and smallholders to exercise meaningful engagement rather than simply be
 ing beneficiaries?\n- What would climate finance look like if distributive,
  procedural and recognition justice are treated as core measures of success
  alongside emissions reductions and financial profits?\n- What kinds of gov
 ernance arrangements are needed to ensure that climate mitigation and adapt
 ation finance responds to the needs of communities facing the greatest envi
 ronmental risks?\nThrough these questions, the roundtable invites participa
 nts to reimagine climate finance, not simply as a funding mechanism and tec
 hnical instrument for enabling the green transition, but as a political and
  contested process through which social, ecological, and governance priorit
 ies are shaped.
URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/reimagining-climate-finance-in-southeast-asia-gender-power-and-the-politics-of-climate-actions
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