Financing for Climate Change: Gender Report

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

On April 21st, 2010, the Global Preparatory Meeting for the Annual Ministerial Review session of ESOSOC entitled “Financing for Climate Change: Gender Equality” met at the United Nations to discuss the placement of women’s empowerment and the concept of “gender as smart economics” at the center of deliberations on financing for climate change. Moderated by WEDO Executive Director Cate Owren, the event drew a multitude of dignified speakers, NGO representatives, and government delegations from the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Spain, Slovenia, and Iceland.

Questions posited at the meeting included:

• What are the sources of climate change financing …

Tags: Climate Finance
Posted in Climate Finance, Library |

Climate Change Intensifies Existing Global Gender Inequalities

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

…serious attention must also be given to addressing the underlying gender inequalities that make women more vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the first place.

This includes taking action to ensure women are able to participate in decision making and political processes that affect them; tackling the inequalities that women face in accessing employment and childcare; and making concerted efforts to ensure real progress is made towards achieving gender equality in education.

Posted in Climate Change, In The News, News |

GEAR Campaign

Friday, April 16th, 2010

The Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign – founded and co-coordinated by WEDO and the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) since 2006 – has been advocating for a new, strong, unified gender entity under the United Nations system. The new entity, with predictable and substantial funding, as well as operational capacity at the country level, could truly improve the lives of women around the world.

Posted in Global Governance |

Outcomes of the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn, April 9-11

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

New York, April 15, 2010 — WEDO representatives Sandra Freitas and Eleanor Blomstrom attended the UNFCCC negotiating sessions in Bonn from 9-11 April. The goal of the session was to determine the organization of work for both Ad hoc Working Groups: Long-term Cooperative Action and the Kyoto Protocol.

Parties agreed to hold 2 more meetings of the working groups, after the upcoming SB32 session in Bonn (31 May – 11 June) and prior to the COP-16 in Cancun, Mexico (29 November – 10 December). Additionally, Parties agreed that the Chair of each working group would draft negotiating text to …

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Financing Climate Change: Gender Equality

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

[ April 21, 2010; 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. ]

Cate Owren will moderate this panel featuring Advocacy Coordinator Rachel Harris and board member Soon-Young Yoon on April 21 in Conference Room 4 of the UN North Lawn Building. View the website and updated agenda for the April 21 program here.…

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