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High Level Meeting on Gender and Climate Change
New York, April 21, 2010 — On Wednesday April 21st, WEDO particiated in a panel on ‘Financing Climate Change: Gender Equality’ in preparation for the ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review. The event was co-sponsored by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the NGO Committee on the Status of Women/NY.
Gender and Climate Change Training in Vietnam
Hanoi/New York, June 9, 2010– From May 24th to 26th 2010, WEDO organized a three-day training of trainers on gender and climate change in Hanoi, Vietnam, in partnership with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Approximately forty people took part in the training, including representatives from UN agencies, donors, line ministri…es, the National Assembly, the Viet Nam Women’s Union and national and international NGOs, to discuss linkages between gender and climate change and build the capacity of each individual to develop gender mainstreaming strategies in their respective areas of work.
WEDO delivers intervention for Gender Constituency at Bonn climate change talks
Bonn, Germany, April 9, 2010 — The Women and Gender Constituency (women’s ‘major group’) to the UNFCCC crafted a statement on the importance of continued progress toward an equitable post-2012 climate agreement that addresses gender considerations and supports the participation of civil society. WEDO delivered the intervention (video begins at approximately 1:42.30) today at the first meeting of the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action during the 9-11 April Bonn Climate Change session.
The text of the statement follows:
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Esteemed colleagues, delegates, ladies and gentlemen:
While the task ahead for the AWG-LCA is great, we support you in organizing your program of work in the most comprehensive and inclusive way possible.
Delegates, in many ways, the Copenhagen LCA draft decisions reflected the history-making progress over the last two years. For the first time, the text integrated human rights, social justice and especially women and gender equality considerations. We urge you to sustain and strengthen these efforts.
A transparent process is critical to ensure a substantive outcome. In organizing your work, we urge you not to lose sight of the progress made last year and the profound substance in the LCA discussions. The multilateral forum of the UNFCCC provides the opportunity for equitable input – and must continue to ensure civil society engagement and meaningful participation at every stage.
Thank you.
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Turning Down the Heat – Gender and Climate Change (video)
New York, March 22 — Lorena Aguilar, a WEDO board member and senior gender advisor for IUCN, is featured in this short video shot at the climate change conference in Copenhagen. It also features the GGCA-sponsored theater group, Theater for Africa, performing about gender and climate change. Have a look!
U.S. Under Secretary of State speaks about Women and Climate Change
New York, January 5 — Maria Otero, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, discusses women and climate change in a short video available on YouTube. In her December 10 statement she notes that women are part of the solution to climate change and references a meeting she had with NGOs, including WEDO, during the UNFCCC COP15 in Copenhagen in December.
Watch the video: Maria Otero – Women and Climate Change
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