within countries there are also efforts underway to ensure that the people most vulnerable to climate change for example women children the elderly and the marginalised benefit from climaterelated development finance analysis conducted by the oecd dac network on gender equality gendernet as an input to cop reveals that of bilateral climate related development assistance targeted gender equality as a principal objective while targeted gender equality as a significant objective oecd f of climate related oda focused on gender equality targeted adaptation and targeted mitigation support for gender equality in climate change interventions has increased rapidly in recent years from usd billion in to usd billion in for dac members