A new briefing by Dr Virginie Le Masson and Lara Langston, How should the new international disaster risk framework address gender equality? argues that in spite of many international policy commitments to address gender inequality, such inequality remains pervasive.  Policies are not automatically followed through in practice.  The best grassroots practices do not necessarily influence policies.

  

  

Since the early 1990s, the global effort to mitigate climate change has been framed primarily as an environmental law problem aimed at harm prevention.  As the shortcomings of this approach have become increasingly clear, a number of scholars have begun to examine energy policy reform as a potential pathway to more fruitful climate change governance development.  This article also identifies energy policy as an appropriate space for developing more effective climate change mitigation policy, but does so in a novel way.