NIKK on climate and gender at final conference for the Nordic Council of Minister´s Sustainability programme

As part of the Nordic Council of Ministers‘ cross-sectoral programme Sustainable Living in the Nordic Region 2021-2024, NIKK, Nordic Information on Gender, has carried out the project Sustainability, lifestyles, and consumption from a gender perspective, which resulted in the report Climate, Gender and Consumption. The report highlights, challenges and contributes to insights on gender stereotypes in relation to consumption and lifestyle. It shows, among other things, that ideals of caregiving can be an important key to the green transition.  

‘People with caring responsibilities, regardless of gender, also tend to take more responsibility for the climate and make more environment-friendly lifestyle choices,’ said Jimmy Sand, analyst at the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research at the University of Gothenburg, in a presentation of results from publications by NIKK within the programme, at the Sustainable Living Summit in Stockholm on 15 October. (the conference was recorded and is available online).  

The conference was the final event of the programme Sustainable Living in the Nordic Region and was organised by Nordregio, the coordinator of the programme since 2023. The conference's session What impacts young people's lifestyle choices? highlighted the results of the new report Climate, Youth and Gender - Inclusion strategies for Nordic youth movement, commissioned by Nordregio and written by NIKK. The study highlights challenges at the intersection of climate engagement, gender and other categories, with a particular focus on young people in the Nordic region.  

In the context of the work that was done within Sustainable Living in the Nordic Region, NIKK also compiled the results of previous NIKK reports and published the publication Gender Perspectives on Green Jobs in the Nordic Region. The publication highlights how issues of gendered educational choices and gender-segregated labor market, norms on skills and distribution of care work are related to the transition to green jobs.  

NIKK, Nordic Information on Gender, is a co-operation body for the Nordic Council of Ministers, placed at the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research at the University of Gothenburg.