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Press Release: Women Discouraged by COP Outcome–But Committed to Hope and Action in 2010
New York, December 22–The lives of millions of people are at stake, entire nations are expected to disappear under the ocean, and yet world leaders in Copenhagen failed to commit to necessary measures for an equitable, just and legally binding post-Kyoto agreement to tackle climate change.
The women’s organizations comprising the Women and Gender Constituency under the UNFCCC– including WECF, GenderCC, WEDO, LIFE and others– are dismayed by the lack of progress. Women are among the most urgently affected by climate change and, at the same time, key agents of change – and we see that there is no time…
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Press Release: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Finland President Tarja Halonen Stand for Women’s Leadership
Copenhagen, December 17–For the first time in history leaders from around the world will gather for a photo opportunity demonstrating their support for gender equality in the global climate change agreement.
The Global Gender and Climate Alliance and the governments of Finland and Denmark in partnership with South Africa, Jordan, Grenada, Ghana, Lesotho, Costa Rica, AOSIS, and UN Foundation have joined together for a side event about Investing in Women’s Leadership for Climate Solutions. After tireless efforts to ensure that the final outcome of COP-15 is gender sensitive women leaders are stepping up to say Women are Agents of Change.…
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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
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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,…
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Media Advisory: Women Press Governments for Gender Equality in Climate Policy
Copenhagen, December 8—Women will continue to advocate in Copenhagen, Denmark this week in order to secure gender references in the final outcome document of the international climate change meeting (COP-15). Read the entire press release below.
WEDO COP 15 Media Advisory Dec-8
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