Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’
Doha Climate Talks: Not Lost, but Damaged
Sunday, December 9th, 2012
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 …
Tags: Adaptation, Climate Change
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NEW Resources on Gender, Climate and Disaster
Friday, May 4th, 2012
New York- May 4th, 2012
The Eldis Climate Change Resource Guide*, in collaboration with experts in the field, has published two key issues guides on Disaster Risk Reduction and Gender.
In response to the recently published IPCC special report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation, an Eldis key issues guide on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) has been developed in collaboration with an expert …
Tags: Climate Change, DRR, UNFCCC
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Gender equality and climate change in the EU
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
New York, May 3rd, 2012
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has published a report on gender equality and climate change which covers all the European Union Member States and provides comparable data on the European Union level. See http://www.eige.europa.eu/content/document/gender-equality-and-climate-change-main-findings
The findings demonstrate that women’s involvement in climate change decision-making at national, European and international levels is still low. Therefore, EIGE introduces the first EU indicators in the area K: Women and the Environment …
Tags: Climate Change
Posted in Climate Change, Library, News |
Report from CSW56 Learning Circle on Gender and Climate Change
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
New York- April 18, 2012
On March 5th, during CSW56, WEDO was very pleased to participate in a “Learning Circle on Gender and Climate Change”, co-sponsored by the GGCA and the NGO CSW Forum 2012. Attached below, please find a final report from the event including summaries from each of the key areas of discussion: Mitigation, Adaptation, Advocacy, Finance, Disaster Risk reduction, and Grassroots community strategies.
http://www.gender-climate.org/Content/Docs/Publications/learning_circle_report.pdf…
Tags: Climate Change, CSW
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WEDO Featured in ETFRN Journal: Moving Forward with Forest Governance
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
NEW YORK (April 1, 2012)– It is widely acknowledged that improving forest governance is an important prerequisite for sustainable forest management and reducing deforestation and forest degradation. Making governance work better for people and forests is not an easy task. Divergent interests, imbalanced power relations and unequal access to information, decision-making, resources and benefits all contribute to this challenge. The latest journal of the European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN), Moving Forward with Forest Governance, …
Tags: Climate Change, Forests, REDD
Posted in Climate Change, Frontpage Featured Library, Library, Mitigation, News, REDD+, UNFCCC |
