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WEDO’s Latest Newsletter: CSW, Rio+20, UNFCCC and much more!
Happy New Year! 2012 is well underway and – with CSW just about to begin and Rio+20 only months away – we think this year is going to be a momentous one!
In this newsletter, you’ll find some indication of our priorities in 2012: pushing for continued progress toward a bold and binding global deal on climate change; promoting and fostering women’s leadership at multiple levels; partnering with incredible networks and organizations around the world to strengthen civil society’s access and impact for effective global governance – all integral in shaping the future we want. We’ll be at Rio+20 in June – along with many of you, we hope – to fight for it.
WEDO’s Holiday Wish List
Happy Holidays from the WEDO family to yours!
While we celebrate our achievements in 2011 we are already planning for 2012- a year with some very significant milestones such as Rio+20 and WEDO’s 20th Anniversary! As we’ve been busy working hard in different parts of the world, our technology needs at home have been neglected the past few years. This holiday season, we’ve constructed a “WEDO Wishlist” which will help us in achieving our goals in 2012!
Climate change talks enter final stretch in Durban: What can we expect at the end of 2011?
It was only a year ago today that we were preparing for the climate COP16 in Cancun, uncertain if the 2010 meetings would finally result in substantial decisions on climate change or if we would see a repeat of COP15. Against a backdrop of lowered ambition and frustration, strong leadership and political will prevailed, and Cancun produced a set of decisions (see WEDO article on Cancun decisions), unparalleled since the Bali COP in 2007, to carry the process forward. The meeting helped restore faith in the UNFCCC multilateral process and built momentum for work in 2011 towards an …
WEDO on the Road to Rio
Rio+20 in June 2012 is a crucial conference for WEDO as an organization. It marks 20 years of WEDO’s leadership, advocacy and action for women’s rights and gender equality in the realm of sustainable development. WEDO founders and visionaries set us on a path toward Rio in 1991 that brought together an unprecedented number and diversity of women and initiated the framework for gender responsive sustainable development, which we draw upon in our work today. And here we are, 20 years on, blazing a new trail to Rio. Many concerns are the same, but the world is fundamentally different, and …
Women on the forefront at the Earth Summit ’92 in Rio.
A personal journey by Irene Dankelman, Former WEDO Board Chair
Thinking of about 20 years ago, I really feel privileged to have been part of the movement that shaped a gender perspective into sustainable development. In the early 1990s I was working with the United Nations Development Fund for Women, UNIFEM, in New York as their gender-environment advisor, preparing for the upcoming United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. On many occasions we met with members of women’s organizations in the lead up to the Conference.
I remember a meeting room in the cellars of …
