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[ February 27, 2010; ] WEDO’s Rachel Harris will be speaking on the Development and Sustainability panel during the Feminism and Climate Change Conference on Saturday, February 27, 2010.
Read MoreNew York, January 5 — Maria Otero, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, discusses women and climate change in a short video available on YouTube. In her December 10 statement she notes that women are part of the solution to climate change and references a meeting she had with NGOs, including WEDO, during the UNFCCC COP15 in Copenhagen in December.
Watch the video: Maria Otero – Women and Climate Change
New York, December 22–The lives of millions of people are at stake, entire nations are expected to disappear under the ocean, and yet world leaders in Copenhagen failed to commit to necessary measures for an equitable, just and legally binding post-Kyoto agreement to tackle climate change.
The women’s organizations comprising the Women and Gender Constituency under the UNFCCC– including WECF, GenderCC, WEDO, LIFE and others– are dismayed by the lack of progress. Women are among the most urgently affected by climate change and, at the same time, key agents of change – and we see that there is no time…
Read MoreCopenhagen, December 17–For the first time in history leaders from around the world will gather for a photo opportunity demonstrating their support for gender equality in the global climate change agreement.
The Global Gender and Climate Alliance and the governments of Finland and Denmark in partnership with South Africa, Jordan, Grenada, Ghana, Lesotho, Costa Rica, AOSIS, and UN Foundation have joined together for a side event about Investing in Women’s Leadership for Climate Solutions. After tireless efforts to ensure that the final outcome of COP-15 is gender sensitive women leaders are stepping up to say Women are Agents of Change.…
Read MoreCopenhagen, December 17, 2009 from 13:00 – 14:30 in the Liva Weel Room of the Bella Center
Please attend a side event presented by: GGCA, Denmark, and Finland in partnership with other governments on
INVESTING IN WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
The side event will feature:
President of the Republic of Finland, Tarja Halonen President of the Republic of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi
As well as high level speakers from Denmark, Honduras, Jordan, Liberia, UNDP, and the World Bank.
Following the side event there will be a photo shoot, “I am…
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