1) The document discusses how gender impacts climate change through differences in transportation patterns and energy consumption between men and women. 2) Men on average consume more energy for food and travel longer distances by car than women, contributing more to greenhouse gas emissions. 3) The transportation sector is dominated by masculine norms and priorities that view men as the main users and do not adequately consider gender differences or climate change impacts in policy and planning.

1. Gendering climate change through the transport sector Merritt Polk Human ecology School of Global Studies The University of Gothenburg Transportforum. Januari 2010, Session 54

5. Daily travel length by car for single and cohabiting men and women in 2001

6. Women’s speedometer

7. ‘ Women’s’ solution to parking

8. Traffic violations Metro March 04

9. Percent women/men who support lowering speed limits to increase traffic safety

10. Percent who would want to raise the speed limits on the freeway

11. Energy consumption for travel in the Swedish population during 1996, by age and gender. The horizontal line is the calculated sustainable level of energy consumption for travel during 1996 (11 000 MJ per person).(Carlsson-Kanyama and Lindén 1999)

16. From the report, A study on gender equality as a prerequisite for sustainable development , for the UN Commission for Sustainable Development A study on gender equality as a prerequisite for sustainable development, 2007 “… if the question of who was causing CO 2 emissions was raised, we would see that men are the main polluters, because of their wider ranging travel patterns. Instead the focus is on technology and technicians – on mostly men - who are portrayed as the solution to the problem” (p. 26)