This paper shares the results of a largescale systematic review on the ways in which global climate policies and/or global gender policies navigate, respond and adapt to the gendered impacts of climate change. Starting with a corpus of over 1000 records including both academic and grey literature, we share both methodological and empirical insights. The study employs the SAFE method in conjunction with ASReview as a screening tool to support analysis. Papers were assessed for publication date, literature type, year of publication, discipline, intersectionality, geographical coverage, evidence strength, policy focus, level of impact or level of policymaking focused on, climate effect or focus, and research method. Empirically, preliminary analysis finds that whilst there is a fast-growing field dedicated to research on the gender-climate nexus, there is a tendency within gender-climate policies and policy papers to generalise the gendered impacts of climate change. This disjuncture between knowledge of gendered impacts of climate change and policies’ capacity to tangibly respond may have significant ramifications for governments globally attempting to make policy at the gender-climate nexus. Initial insights reveal that policies are largely characterised by masculinised, techno-scientific and exponential economic growth epistemes and policy implementation is undermined by institutional siloing, fragmentation and resistance to change. Further, most national policies explicitly addressing the gender-climate nexus either originate or are directed toward (through development or foreign policy) Global South nations revealing a distinct lack of policymaking in the Global North. This could reveal a tendency of Eurocentricity in global climate governance whereby gendered climate impacts seemingly only occur in the Global South, severely undermining the responsive capacity of states in the Global North and the repetition of unjust and unfounded North/South binaries. Methodologically, we outline a proposed approach for future systematic studies, reflecting on the use of automated technology to aid analysis of largescale literature reviews in political science and international relations, as well as its limitations. The paper contributes empirically by setting a forward research agenda for scholars and practitioners at the gender-climate nexus, as well as providing methodological insights to support future systematic reviews.
