Powering Progress: Centering Gender in the Just Energy Transition

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Powering Progress: Centering Gender in the Just Energy Transition

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Date & Location

October

31

,

2024

5:00pm

–

9:00pm

About the Event

As the global community accelerates the transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy systems, questions of justice, safety, and inclusion remain unresolved for women and girls in extractive and resource-rich communities. While often framed as an environmental issue, the energy transition carries significant gender and social impacts.

This convening will examine how the just energy transition intersects with gender-based violence, economic exclusion, and environmental injustice. Centering experiences from Nigeria’s Niger Delta, the discussion will connect local realities to global energy and climate policy debates and explore how governments, companies, and international institutions can embed gender justice into just transition frameworks.

We gather at a moment when decisions about energy systems and climate action will shape not just environmental outcomes, but also the dignity, safety, and rights of women and girls. This dialogue will offer an opportunity to reflect collectively on how governments, companies and international institutions can embed gender justice, accountability, and community leadership into just transition frameworks.

Speakers

Hon. Mrs. Valentina Ngozi Enih

Hon. Mrs Valentina Ngozi Enih is the Honourable Commissioner for Women Affairs, Enugu State. She hails from Owo in Nkanu East LGA and received her primary and secondary education in Enugu. She holds a Nigerian Certificate in Education in Social Studies and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution.

Hon. Commissioner Enih is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC) and a Fellow-in-view. She is the Convener of the Idodo Zone Women Association and Co-founder of the Women Support Women Community Network (WOSCONET).

A passionate advocate for the rights and well-being of women and children, she has championed community-based initiatives that promote protection, empowerment, and social inclusion. Before public service, she served as CEO of Purple Val Enterprise. She is married with children.

Her Lordship, Honourable Justice Bukunola Adebiyi

Honourable Justice R. I. B. Adebiyi is a Judge of the High Court of Lagos State, currently serving in the Lands Division of the Ikeja Judicial Division, where she also sits as a Probate Judge.

She studied law at the University of Kent at Canterbury and earned an LLM from Queen Mary College, University of London. Called to the Nigerian Bar in 1985, she practised commercial and intellectual property law before her elevation to the Bench in 2001.

Justice Adebiyi has served across multiple judicial divisions, including Commercial, Criminal, Fast Track, and Revenue. She played a foundational role in establishing the Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse, Africa’s first court-connected ADR centre, and is a CEDR UK-accredited mediator.

A Fellow of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute and alumna of Lagos Business School, she is deeply committed to judicial innovation, the rule of law, and equitable access to justice.

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