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WEDO works with Washington, DC-based Gender Action in the United States on gender and climate financing mechanisms, specifically in the United Nations and World Bank.
The Washington, DC-based group, 1Sky is a strong partner and ally of WEDO’s U.S. Climate Change campaign. 1Sky is an umbrella organization for various U.S.-based national and grassroots groups working on climate change, supporting WEDO in its gender and climate change work. In 2009 WEDO’s U.S. Campaign will continue to work closely with 1Sky and its grassroots initiatives.
Oxfam America, based in Boston, MA, is working with WEDO’s U.S. campaign to educate U.S. activists about gender and climate change through its Sisters on the Planet video that is part of WEDO’s From Katrina to Copenhagen: A Toolkit for Action.
WEDO is a member of the U.S. Climate Action Network (USCAN), which brings together several U.S.-based organizations that advocate for U.S. action on climate change. As a member of USCAN, WEDO engages with other groups in the U.S. to bring a gender perspective to U.S. climate change advocacy.
WEDO works with Feminist Majority based in Arlington, VA on gender and sustainable development issues, targeting a U.S. campus audience to raise awareness and advocate for gender and sustainable development.
WEDO works with the national office, based in Washington, DC, of the League of Women Voters (LWV) to raise awareness and distribute resources and tools on gender and climate change to LWV chapters.
SisterSong, based in Atlanta, GA, is working with WEDO and other organizations to develop a Reproductive Justice and Environmental Justice training toolkit that will include gender and climate justice as one of its components.
New York, NY-based West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WEACT) is working with WEDO’s U.S. campaign to include a gender perspective in climate justice advocacy at its Climate Justice conference, January 29-30, 2009.
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ), based in Oakland, CA is working on the intersections between reproductive justice and climate change and helping to organize the gender and climate justice session at WEACT’s January 2009 conference in which WEDO is a panelist. Throughout 2009 WEDO plans to continue its partnership with ACRJ through our Campaign From Katrina to Copenhagen: Women Demand U.S. Action on Climate Change.
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Members of U.S. Congress Speak Out on Women and Climate Change!
On Thursday November 3rd 2011, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced a Congressional resolution to bring attention to the greater economic, agricultural, and health-related hardships faced by women arising from climate change. H.Con.Res. 84 recognizes the disparate impact of climate change on women and the efforts of women globally to address this issue. The Resolution was referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
From the official posting on her website, Representative Lee remarks: “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,” said Congresswoman Lee. “While women are bearing the brunt of climate change’s effects, they are often underrepresented in the development of climate change adaptation policy. This is unacceptable.”
Event: “The Right to Water in the Americas”
[ October 25, 2011; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ]
The Center for Women’s Global Leadership & the Institute for Women’s Leadership invite you to a public lecture by
Marcela Olivera
Bolivian water rights activist &
2011 Visiting Global Associate
The Right to Water in the Americas
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
4pm Reception • 4:30pm Program.
162 Ryders Lane • RDJC Building.
Douglass Campus • Rutgers University.
Please RSVP at rsvp@cwgl.rutgers.edu by October 18th.
About Marcela Olivera:
Marcela Olivera is the Latin American coordinator for the Water for All campaign. After graduating…
Climate Change Facts– Women Demand U.S. Action on Climate Change
Climate change is an established scientific fact. Humans contribute with our rising output of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and other products of fossil fuel consumption. Policies to halt climate change must address human impacts as well as technical aspects of the problem if they are to succeed. Women are essential to the solutions!
Get the facts about climate change and the impact on women.
Media Advisory: April 17 New Orleans Regional Climate Change Summit
New York, April 9–Find out the who, what, where and when of the April 17th U.S. regional summit “From Katrina to Copenhagen: Promoting A Fair Climate Agenda.”
U.S Resolution (H.R. 98) on Women and Climate Change
Read this resolution introduced by Congresswomen Barbara Lee (D-CA), Betty McCollum (D-MN) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA) on April 2, 2009 that recognizes the disproportionate impacts of climate change on women and the efforts of women globally to address climate change.
