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Gender and Climate Change Featured on CUNY TV March 17, 2010
New York, March 16 — New Yorkers, please tune in to CUNY TV on Channel 75, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 8:30pm EST to see WEDO Board Member, Lorena Aguilar, and WEDO Campaign Coordinator, Rachel Harris, discuss gender and climate change. Look out for a link to this conversation soon!
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Library Keywords: climate change
Resource Type: News
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Worldwide Support for an Equitable Number of Women on the High Level Advisory Group for Climate Change Financing!
UPDATE: Ms. Christine Lagarde, Minister of Finance of France is now a member of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing.
New York, March 12 — As of 12pm EST Friday, March 12, 2010 we have received over 140 organization signatures supporting an equitable number of women on the High Level Advisory Group for Climate Change Financing! Thank you for all of your support. Please find the updated letter with signatures here.
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Library Keywords: climate change, Governance, united nations reform
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Feminism and Climate Change Conference
[ 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.
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Library Keywords: climate change
Resource Type: Events
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U.S. Under Secretary of State speaks about Women and Climate Change
New 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
Library Keywords: climate change, sustainable development
Resource Type: Climate Change, News, Video, View, WEDO at the Copenhagen Climate Conference
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Press Release: Women Discouraged by COP Outcome–But Committed to Hope and Action in 2010
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…
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Library Keywords: climate change
Resource Type: Climate Change, News, Press Releases, WEDO at the Copenhagen Climate Conference
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