Powering Justice: Feminist Reflections on BIMSTEC, Climate Change, and Energy

[Priti Darooka]

Powering Justice: Feminist Reflections on BIMSTEC, Climate Change, and Energy
By Shubha Chacko

This paper presents a feminist analysis of climate change and energy governance within BIMSTEC, situating the regional bloc within shifting global power structures and critiquing dominant growth-driven and technocratic policy frameworks. It argues that prevailing approaches often marginalise questions of gender, justice, and lived experience, while overlooking women's central roles in climate adaptation, energy systems, and regional economies.

Drawing on regional research and case studies across BIMSTEC countries, the paper highlights how climate impacts and energy transitions disproportionately affect women - particularly those from indigenous, coastal, and informal communities - through displacement, labour precarity, and unequal access to resources. It concludes by calling for gender-transformative climate and energy governance within BIMSTEC, emphasising redistribution, representation, and accountability as essential to building just and climate-resilient futures in the Bay of Bengal region.

Warmly,

Priti

 

 

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