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UNFCCC Side Event – Women and Climate Finance – Past Experiences Inspiring Future Funds
Bonn, Germany, June 13, 2011 – GGCA, in partnership with the Government of Finland, IUCN, the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice (MRFCJ), Oxfam, UNDP, UNEP and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), organized a UNFCCC side event entitled Women and Climate Finance – Past Experiences Inspiring Future Funds. The event, chaired by Mary Robinson (former President of Ireland), focused on lessons learned through mainstreaming gender in development funds and considered how these experiences can serve as a foundation for integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment into climate finance mechanisms.
Gender Indicators for Global Climate Funds Still an Afterthought
By Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN, Jun 27, 2011 (IPS) – Of the millions of dollars spent on climate change projects in developing countries, little has been allocated in a way that will benefit women. Yet, in Africa, it is women who will be most affected by climate change.
SIDE EVENT: Women and Climate Finance – Past Experiences Inspiring Future Funds
[ June 13, 2011; 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ]
Bonn, Germany, June, 13th, 2011– WEDO, alongside the Government of Finland, GGCA, MRFCJ and others, is proud to host the side event “Women and Climate Finance – Past Experiences Inspiring Future Funds”. Please join us to discuss lessons learned through mainstreaming gender in development funds, and to consider how these experiences can serve as a foundation for integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment into climate finance mechanisms.
Moderated by Ms. Mary Robinson
President, Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice
Gender and the CDM
Ms. Karoliina Anttonen, Senior Policy Officer, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Mr. Martin Hession, Chair, CDM …
Gender and Climate Finance: Progress Side-Tracked So Soon?
Spring 2011 Newsletter– The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana Figueres, couldn’t have said it better last month in Bangkok, at the opening of the 2011 climate talks: “The decisions we made in Cancun helped save the process – now we must save the planet.” The momentous UNFCCC Cancun Agreements, made last December at the 16th UNFCCC Conference of Parties, could be a critical step to putting us on a path toward sustainability. Particularly comprehensive in their inclusion of gender equality principles as integral to mitigating and adapting to climate change, the …
Cate Owren – Women’s Environment & Development Organization at COP16 in Cancun
Cancun, Mexico– Cate Owren, Program Director for Women’s Environment & Development Organization (WEDO) at the Oxfam, GCCA and tcktcktck Side event, Financing the Future? Establishing a Fair Climate Fund in Cancun, Mexico
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