Climate Finance
Gender And Climate Change Finance
WEDO challenges the dominant approach to climate change that prioritizes market-based solutions over human rights-based policies which seek to protect the most vulnerable. By documenting the key economic dimensions of climate change policies and processes and their implications for women, WEDO advocates for climate change financing that is gender sensitive.
Working with partners in Africa and Asia to produce case studies and to develop a platform to impact key global processes, WEDO is also analyzing the major market-based approaches to climate change mitigation, including large-scale bio-fuel production and carbon trading, from a gender perspective. The WEDO MisFortune 500 web resource (under construction) reports on corporate profiteering arising from ‘false’ climate change mitigation strategies while promoting gender-sensitive alternatives.
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The Latest Climate Finance News
NEW PUBLICATION: Governing Climate Funds: What Will Work for Women?
New York, September 9th 2011– WEDO is proud to present a new joint publication with Gender Action and Oxfam: “Governing Climate Funds: What Will Work for Women?”
As the international community mobilizes in response to global climatic changes, climate funds must ensure the equitable and effective allocation of funds for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Women and girls, disproportionately vulnerable to negative climate change impacts in developing countries, have largely been excluded from climate change finance policies and programmes. This report examines four funds –climate funds and non-climate funds, to draw out the lessons for gender integration in global finance mechanisms. Women and girls must not only be included in adaptive and mitigative activities, but also recognized as agents of change who are essential to the success of climate change interventions.
Advancing Gender Equality in the Green Climate Fund: Letter to UN Women
New York, August 17th, 2011– Last week, members of the Women and Gender Constituency sent a letter to Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General of UN Women to ask UN Women to take a more prominent advocacy role in the negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), particularly in the development of a new Green Climate Fund (GCF).
Sign-on for a Gender Seat in the Climate Investment Funds! Deadline Monday
New York, July 30th 2011– As you may know, several GGCA members have been very engaged during the last year and a half in strengthening the gender inclusiveness and gender equality in the development of the Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) (the CTF- Clean Technology Fund and the SCF – Strategic Climate Fund). One strategy GGCA members identified to ensure engagement on climate and gender issues was to create a dedicated observer seat for a gender equality or women’s empowerment expert or organization within each of the CIF Trust Fund Committees and Subcommittees.
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Progress on Gender in the Adaptation Fund
New York, July 20th, 2011– The Adaptation Fund was established by the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to finance concrete adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries that are Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. The Fund was officially launched in 2007, although it was established in 2001 at the 7th Conference of the Parties (COP7) to the UNFCCC in Marrakech, Morocco. The Fund is financed with 2% of the Certified Emission Reduction (CERs) issued for projects of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and other sources of funding.…
Gender equality and the Green Climate Fund
Tokyo, Japan– The second meeting of the Transitional Committee (TC) to design the Green Climate Fund (GCF) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded yesterday in Tokyo, Japan. The Cancun Agreements, adopted at COP16 at the end of 2010, established the “Green Climate Fund” to provide assistance to developing countries. As the international community now works to design this global climate fund, WEDO and its partners are working to ensure the equitable and effective allocation of funds for the world’s most vulnerable populations. At the regional Transitional Committee meeting in Tokyo, women and gender issues were highlighted in various ways.
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