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Women Making the Case for U.S. Action on Climate Change
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (August 27 2012)- The direct and indirect effects of climate change continue to have a disproportionate impact on marginalized women, including refugee and displaced persons, sexual minorities, religious and ethnic minorities, adolescent girls, women and girls with disabilities and those who are HIV positive… our goal is to empower women who are particularly vulnerable to climate change and to encourage a more gender-sensitive approach in climate change policy- U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee
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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 …
WEDO Joins Climate Experts in Daily Kos Week Long ‘Climate Change SOS’ Blogathon
SAN FRANCISCO (August 19, 2012)- South Centre Director Martin Khor Monday kicks off a week of climate talks at Daily Kos in an inter-active blogathon which brings together over 30 leading economists, scientists, researchers, academics and activists in the field of climate change.
Participants will discuss the interrelationship of climate change with human rights, environmental justice, natural resources, civil rights, culture, economy, jobs, food security, health care, etc., to provide a realistic picture of the …
Rio Conventions Launch Brochure on Gender Mainstreaming
RIO DE JANEIRO (June 19 2012)-Official press release from IISD Reporting Services
On the sidelines to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) launched a joint brochure outlining gender mainstreaming in the three Conventions, and describing challenges and opportunities for synergistic action.
The information brochure, titled “The Rio Conventions: …
Women’s Major Group presents Rio+20 Recommendations to Michelle Bachelet
June 19, 2012, Rio de Janeiro
The Women’s Major Group played a significant role in the Women’s Leadership Forum hosted today by UN Women. During the opening panel, Sascha Gabizon of Women in Europe for a Common Future, an Organizing Partner of the Women’s Major Group (WMG), spoke passionately on behalf of the Women’s Major Group to illustrate the efforts that women have made over the past year and more to influence the Rio+20 outcome …
