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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 …
COP 15 Art Exhibit Shows Connections Between Gender and Climate Change
Copenhagen, December 12–Check out Michael de Laine’s blog on The Copenhagen Voice about the Global Gender and Climate Alliance’s (GGCCA) exhibition on gender and climate change ’(Re) Cycles of Paradise’.…
Statement by Ms. Meena Kunwar on Gender Considerations
Copenhagen, SBSTA Pleanry Session, December 12–Madame Chair, thank you for this opportunity. I speak on behalf of WEDO.
REDD provides potential opportunities for positive outcomes for forest dependent communities, but also risks serious negative outcomes, especially for women who rely on forest resources to sustain their families’ livelihoods. Current discussions on REDD are very weak with respect to the gender dimensions and to its impacts on women who have few or no options to use the forest for sources of fuelwood, livestock feed, medicines, and even food in times of scarcity. It is crucial that this gap be addressed so …
Finland: Still the Gender Champion
New York, December 10–Read the article below by Nina Somera of Isis International to find out about the “Gender Champion of the Week” at the international climate change conference in Copenhagen.
Finland: Still the Gender Champion
http://www.isisinternational.org
Copenhagen, Denmark (10 December 2009) – Finland has been hailed as the champion of women and gender rights in the climate change talks here at the Bella Centre. Finland, along with Liberia was among the first to
articulate the need for greater women’s participation in the process. It
has also earmarked some 500,000 Euros to fund the participation of
Southern women, particularly those …
