Description
Climate change has been increasingly conceptualised and presented as a security risk within domestic and global governance. While securitisation responses to climate change have been critiqued within a growing body of climate change security literature, the gendered logics which structure climate security discourse deserve further attention. As climate change is understood to compound gendered inequities in society, with women and girls often more vulnerable to climate change due to intersecting social inequalities, understanding how prominent climate change security discourses are gendered is imperative for feminist foreign policy concerns. This paper examines the climate change and energy security narratives and discourse of US President Joe Biden and former UK Prime minister Boris Johnson from January 2021 to July 2022, covering the COP 26 Summit in Glasgow and key moments of the beginning of the 2021 global energy crisis, to uncover the presence of gendered logics. It argues that if we are to take the proposals of the United Nations Secretary-General seriously, particularly the proposals to place women and girls at the centre and to protect our planet, the specific ways in which climate change is articulated as an issue of security must be considered.
