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Reflections on COP 15: A Vital Forum
Copenhagen, December 15—A few days ago, I arrived in Copenhagen for the international climate change conference (COP 15) filled with anticipation and excitement to be able take part in such a vital forum. When I entered the premises, I was awed by the number of people and exhibits and the large amount of information on climate change that was available to anyone who wanted to stop, ask, and read.
As an intern with WEDO, my primary activity at the conference is to work at the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA) booth and disseminate information on gender and climate change…
Press Release:First Global Agreement on Gender and Climate in Sight at COP 15
Copenhagen, December 16–With just two days remaining before the end of COP-15, the world waits for a clear signal on the importance of human impacts of climate change via landmark agreement on gender equality and women’s leadership.
Read the entire press release here: GGCA COP 15 Press Release December 16
Gender Text Prevails in Climate Change Negotiations
Cate Owren Coordinates WEDO’s Sustainable Development Program
Copenhagen, December 15–A quick update on where we – WEDO and Global Gender and Climate Change Alliance (GGCA) gender advocates – are right now in the Long-term Collaborative Actions (LCA) negotiations…
It’s been a long and exhausting nine days, and we haven’t stopped running for a minute! The team here is amazing – from Ghana and Togo, Nepal and India, Costa Rica and Brazil, Australia, the Pacific Islands, the U.S and beyond… As those who have been following our work know, we’ve been engaged very specifically with Parties on identifying and crafting effective…
Press Release:Urgency of Drowning Islands Does Not Negate Need for Gender Equality
Copenhagen, December 14– Leah Wickham is a 24 year-old woman from the Fiji Islands fighting for urgent and immediate action on climate change to prevent her small island from sinking. She says with tearful eyes that she wants to hope that 50 years from now her children will be growing up in Fiji without the fear of their island sinking. Ms. Wickham is pleading to world leaders to take action on climate change mitigation for the future generation of her islands. “To lose culture is the most degrading thing. [Climate change, causing] the slightest rise in sea level, affects tradition,…
COP15 from the floor level
Maja Bugge, a Danish intern in WEDO, tells a story from the Climate Change Negotiations in Copenhagen.
Copenhagen, December 11th -After three hours of standing in line to get an access badge for the UNFCCC COP-15 in the Bella Center on Monday morning, I could not feel my toes anymore. Since then I have met several other young people, interns or students like myself. Squeezing myself through the small door it seems that I am in the middle of an airport; there are sounds of boxes being aggressively put down on conveyers and security people scanning participants, because their entrance…
