While crises in the international system may encourage engagements, crisis discourses risk overlooking the intersectional nature of crisis, meaning that all individuals are neither equally affected, accountable nor have equal resources to react to crises. This is also the case when it comes to climate change, which was originally framed as a natural science problem, without much consideration given to social dimensions. In this chapter we discuss, with the help of feminist scholarship, the role of climate institutions in developing gender-sensitive and inclusive climate strategies. Climate institutions are especially important to study since they have authoritative knowledge and organiseclimate politics through their problem definition, which affects both inclusion of knowledge and representation of different social groups in climate politics. The chapter concludes with the notion that narratives highlighting the gendered and intersectional nature of climate change are slowly but surely gaining prominence within climate institutions at different levels. Established institutional practices and norms however still slow down this work, often resulting in parallel processes, with little coordination between policies, where gendered actions are isolated.