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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Join us on Friday 3/22 for a GGCA Twitter Chat on Gender & Climate Finance!
[ March 22, 2013; 8:30 am to 10:30 am. ]
A gender-sensitive approach to climate finance: Why does it matter? Who does it benefit? How do we get there?
When: Friday, March 22nd at 9:30am EDT, 13:30 GMT
Where: Hashtag #shesparks & @GGCA_Gender on Twitter
Who: Leading Gender and Climate Change experts + YOU
Join us to discuss lessons learned and challenges faced in implementing a gender-sensitive approach to climate finance. In particular, we will identify key opportunities for progress in 2013.…
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Operationalizing a Gender-sensitive Approach in the Green Climate Fund
NEW YORK (March 12, 2013)– The board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) meets this week, March 13-15, 2013, to discuss key issues pertinent for the operationalization of the GCF. One of the main agenda items for this session is the business model framework, which includes discussions on the structure and organization of the fund, the private sector facility related matters, access modalities and the results management framework. Also important will be the discussion of …
Green Climate Fund Board Gets Down to Business
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (August 23, 2012)— After months of deliberation on the composition of the Green Climate Fund Board, today was the start of its first meeting, which will last through Saturday, August 25, 2012. During these three meeting days, the board has a full agenda, including deciding which country will host the Fund. One of the first substantive items on the agenda will be arrangements for observer participation in the Board meetings followed soon …
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).
