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NEW: Report on Women’s Participation in the UNFCCC
New York, New York (December 14, 2012)– Especially in light of COP18 agreeing a new decision on promoting women’s participation in the UNFCCC, WEDO is proud to release its latest report highlighting statistics on women’s participation in the climate change process. This new reports looks in depth at women’s participation in the UNFCCC over the last 5 years, graphically portraying data on the overall percentage of women on national delegations, as Heads of Delegations and on …
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Doha Climate Talks: Not Lost, but Damaged
by Kit Vaughan, CARE International Director of Climate Change and Environment. Post was originally written for the Huffington Post Green Blog, and can be found here. You can follow more updates from CARE’s Climate Team on Twitter.
Doha, Qatar (December 9, 2012)– Despite the seeming lack of progress at the latest UN climate negotiations in Doha, with many saying the two-week session again failed to deliver any substantive action towards a safer, more …
Network of Women Ministers and Leaders of the Environment in Doha
Doha, Qatar (December 5, 2012) – The Network of Women Ministers and Leaders of the Environment (NWMLE) held a meeting on the occasion of the UNFCCC COP/CMP8 to bring together a diverse group of government, UN and civil society leaders in the environment sector. The NWMLE has been active since 2002, with an overall objective to promote gender responsive sustainable environmental management at regional and global levels and enhance representation and involvement of women in …
NOT IN MY NAME: Women at COP18 call for urgency and action
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 …
EVENT: Gender at the Centre of Climate Compatible Development
[ 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 …
