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.

Posted in Events, News, WEDO at COP17 |

Gender Indicators for Global Climate Funds Still an Afterthought

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

By Kristin Palitza

CAPE TOWN, Jun 27, 2011 (IPS) – Of the millions of dollars spent on climate change projects in developing countries, little has been allocated in a way that will benefit women. Yet, in Africa, it is women who will be most affected by climate change.

Posted in Climate Change, Climate Finance, News |

A Conversation with Women Negotiators at the UNFCCC

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

New York, June 28th 2011– Original article was published in the CDKN Global Blog

By Jessica Sinclair Taylor, CDKN Global Communications Assistant and Tristan Stubbs, CDKN Global Communications Officer

Climate change is having a disproportionate effect on the lives of women in Least Developed Countries (LDCs). So now is the time to pay attention to the views of female negotiators from LDCs, who form a distinct minority in the UNFCCC discussions. In Bonn last week, CDKN spoke to several women negotiators working with WEDO to seek their views on the climate talks. Our conversations showed that…

Tags: Political Participation, UNFCCC, Women Leaders
Posted in GGCA, Library, News, UNFCCC, Women Delegates Fund |

Women and Gender Constituency on Gender, Adaptation, and REDD+

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Bonn, Germany, June 17th 2011– Today, WEDO’s Rachel Harris delivered an intervention on behalf of the Women and Gender Constituency at the UNFCCC.

“Despite clear evidence of the gender differentiated impacts of climate change, especially in developing countries, vulnerability assessments and adaptation studies do not reflect such differentiation and thus limit the efficiency of such analyses for appropriate gender sensitive adaptation measures. The review of the guidelines could provide several opportunities for countries to do so. Therefore, in vulnerability assessments and adaptation studies Parties should include gender analyses and gender-related information, as relevant.”

Click here to download the full intervention…

Tags: Civil Society Participation, Climate Change, UNFCCC
Posted in Adaptation, Civil Society Participation, Gallery, Library, News, REDD+, UNFCCC |

SIDE EVENT: Women and Climate Finance – Past Experiences Inspiring Future Funds

Monday, June 13th, 2011

[ June 13, 2011; 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ]

Bonn, Germany, June, 13th, 2011– WEDO, alongside the Government of Finland, GGCA, MRFCJ and others, is proud to host the side event “Women and Climate Finance – Past Experiences Inspiring Future Funds”. Please join us to discuss lessons learned through mainstreaming gender in development funds, and to consider how these experiences can serve as a foundation for integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment into climate finance mechanisms.

Moderated by Ms. Mary Robinson
President, Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice

Gender and the CDM
Ms. Karoliina Anttonen, Senior Policy Officer, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Tags: Climate Change, Climate Finance, UNFCCC
Posted in Climate Finance, Events, Library, News, UNFCCC |