Event: Addressing The Gender Dimension of Vulnerability: An Adaptation Framework that Works for Everyone

Friday, November 18th, 2011

[ November 30, 2010 6:30 pm to November 30, 2011 8:00 pm. ] CARE International and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) are partnering on a side event at UNFCCC COP-17 on November 30, 2011 from 6:30-8pm in the Hex River Room. This event will use an interactive discussion format to explore the complexities of vulnerability from a gender perspective and make recommendations to input into an adaptation framework that works for everyone.

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Women’s Rights, Human Rights and Climate Change

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

New York, May 26th 2011– Article by WEDO Executive Director Cate Owren. Originally published in On the Issues Magazine.

A major paradigm shift in dealing with climate change has been unfolding in the last few years – largely thanks to concerted efforts by women’s human rights advocates. Once a strictly “environmental” or “business” issue, climate change has been increasingly accepted as a gender equality and social justice issue by civil society organizations, UN agencies and governments from around the globe. Despite this, an ongoing struggle is underway to address both climate change and its specific gender impacts.

Until recently,…

Tags: Climate Change, Human Rights
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Check out WEDO’s New Brochure!

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

New York– Click here to download WEDO’s New Brochure!

Tags: WEDO
Posted in Library |

Gender and Climate Finance: Progress Side-Tracked So Soon?

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Spring 2011 Newsletter– The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana Figueres, couldn’t have said it better last month in Bangkok, at the opening of the 2011 climate talks: “The decisions we made in Cancun helped save the process – now we must save the planet.” The momentous UNFCCC Cancun Agreements, made last December at the 16th UNFCCC Conference of Parties, could be a critical step to putting us on a path toward sustainability. Particularly comprehensive in their inclusion of gender equality principles as integral to mitigating and adapting to climate change, the Agreements…

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Returning to Rio: Examining the Issues and Forging the Path for Women

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Spring 2011 Newsletter– Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where WEDO founders and supporters ensured women were at the table to help integrate gender equality principles into the sustainable development framework, it is time to take up the task once again. At Rio+20 in June 2012, the world community will come together to discuss the next several decades of sustainable development. Momentum is building. Governments and civil society alike are reviewing past successes and failures and making recommendations for future action. The preparatory process is well underway – and WEDO has been very busy.…

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