USHA NAIR
INDIA
ALL INDIA WOMEN’S CONFERENCE (AIWC)
Usha Nair is currently the co-focal point of the Women and Gender Constituency and is member-in-charge of the All India Women’s Conference (AIWC) with a particular focus on Climate Change and the Environment. Usha has extensive experience working on issues related to gender and climate change and has experience with UNFCCC negotiations and processes. Through her work she consistently advocates for gender equality and human rights as a cross cutting element across all parts of climate change policy. Many of her interventions and interviews highlight the need to focus on women as change agents for climate change. She argues that most mitigation actions need to start with women as they are the decision makers at the domestic level, and therefore women must be the main stakeholders in policy making.
