Transforming Representation at the UNFCCC
By Bridget Burns, Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
A few weeks ago, WEDO was invited by the Climate Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) to speak on a lively panel addressing the question, “Is international consensus on climate change the way to save the planet?” With panelists each given 3 minutes to ‘pitch’ their ideas for better approaches to taking action on climate change, WEDO’s argument was simple: diversity is key. As WEDO’s Bridget Burns …
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Women Fight for Food Security as they Conserve Biodiversity: Mwingi, Kenya, CASE STUDY
by: Floridah Kagendo, WEDO CBD COP11 Representative/ Crop Development Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Kenya
Over many generations, women have been charged with the responsibility of feeding their families with nutritionally rich and balanced foods. Nature has dutifully provided these foods, but over time, the production has been declining. Women collect firewood in the forests, draw water from streams whose source is the forest and rely heavily on the same forests to provide food for their …
No One on Earth Should Go Hungry
by Bridget Burns, WEDO Team
NEW YORK (November 7, 2012)– We are lucky here at WEDO. Not only do we get to come to work every day to a passionate group of like-minded activists in our own team, but we also share our offices with two other great organizations, the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders and Oxfam. Today, our friends at Oxfam hosted a Hunger Banquet for our office– an interactive event which highlights the severe inequality in poverty and hunger around the world.
Hurricane Sandy and Our New Normal
NEW YORK (November 5, 2012)- As many of you know, WEDO is headquartered in New York, a city still recovering from the devastating impacts of last week’s Hurricane Sandy. Today, our team finally made it back into the office from our respective homes across four states – and we wanted to send our warmest greetings and thanks for the messages of support over the last days, as well as our sincerest well wishes to the …
From superstorm Sandy to climate solidarity: How extreme weather can unlock climate action
NEW YORK (November 1, 2012)- I live in New York, half a block outside Evacuation Zone A on the East side of Manhattan. My partner and I, like many others, had our quick-run bags packed as the power went off on Monday evening (which is yet to be restored) and the storm surge grew. In the days since, we’ve been struck by the messages of good will we have been sent from all over the world. One of the first was from a friend and colleague who two years ago took me to visit the hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis living on mud embankments shattered by Cyclone Aila.
