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NOT IN MY NAME: Women at COP18 call for urgency and action

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012

Doha, Qatar (December 5, 2012)- Early this morning Women and Gender NGOs at COP 18 representing hundreds of women’s organizations and environmental leaders around the world expressed their dissatisfaction with the positions of many Northern Governments.

Holding signs listing the failures of the negotiations including – “empty financing,” “inequality,” “gigaton gap” “withholding safe technologies” “no compensation for loss and damage” at the entrance to the conference site, over two dozen women and men chanted “Not

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EVENT: Gender at the Centre of Climate Compatible Development

Monday, November 26th, 2012

[ December 2, 2012; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ]

Doha, Qatar (November 27, 2012)– Hosted by CDKN, WEDO’s Cate Owren will join a multi-stakeholder panel focused on the mainstreaming of gender within climate compatible development, its importance, the barriers to success, and the merits of existing strategies. See invitation below from CDKN, with further details:

We are pleased to invite you to CDKN’s networking and knowledge sharing event “Gender at the Centre of Climate Compatible Development” which will be held on Sunday 2 December

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COP THIS: Gender and Climate at COP18

Monday, November 26th, 2012

Doha, Qatar (November 26, 2012)– Voice your support for gender equality in the climate change negotiations! The GGCA invites you to publicly express your views on gender and climate while we are gathered here in Doha for COP18.

Please come to the GGCA Booth at the QNCC and write your response to the question:

What is the most important gender & climate issue?

We will take your photo with your statement and use these in …

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Greater diversity the best way to gain climate consensus

Monday, November 26th, 2012

Doha, Qatar (November 26, 2012)– Mairi Dupar reports the outcome of lively debate hosted by PwC and CDKN which addressed the question: Is international consensus on climate change the way to save the planet?

National delegations should more truly represent their countries, by bringing women’s, young people’s, indigenous and other marginalised voices to the fore. This was voted the best idea for building consensus in international climate change talks at an event hosted by …

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EVENT- Gender and Climate Innovation: Breakthrough changes for gender equality

Sunday, November 25th, 2012

[ November 27, 2012; 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ]

Doha, Qatar (November 26, 2012)– As part of the COP18 UNFCCC Gender Day, WEDO, in partnership with the GGCA, LIFE eV, Gender CC and members of the UNFCCC Women and Gender Constituency, are excited to host an interactive dialogue and innovation marketplace, focused on pushing the agenda for gender-responsive climate action beyond rhetoric to implementation.

Date and Location: Tuesday, Nov 27, 3:00 – 6:00pm, Side Event Room 4

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3:00 – 3:30           High-level Opening Discussion

  • Christiana Figueres, Executive …
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