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Environmental issues are regarded by many as urgent, complex, and transboundary, but are they gendered? Environmental scholars, institutions, and policymakers are increasingly recognizing that they are. There are a variety of important connections between gender and international environmental politics (IEP). For example, people often experience environmental problems differently because of socially constructed ideas about the appropriate roles and responsibilities of men and women. Men may be expected to migrate in the face of environmental degradation in order to provide for their families (Boehm, 2008; Terry, 2009), or women might be at greater risk to die in natural disasters if it is considered inappropriate for them to leave their houses alone (Hunter and David, 2011). While it is important that we avoid essentializing people’s experiences, it is also vital that we recognize consistent, gendered patterns …