Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’
Mapping gender-sensitive REDD+ strategies in Ghana, Cameroon, and Uganda
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
NEW YORK (January 4, 2012)– Over the course of several months in 2011, WEDO worked in Ghana, Cameroon and Uganda to create a dialogue around women, climate change and forestry. Project Coordinator Andrea Quesada lead and facilitated workshops on gender and REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) as part of a new initiative that WEDO and IUCN are jointly implementing to deliver roadmaps to guide the design and implementation of gender-sensitive REDD+ strategies …
Tags: Climate Change, Forests, Gender Equality, REDD
Posted in Africa, Climate Change, Forests, Frontpage Featured Library, Library, Mitigation, News, REDD+ |
Panama: Our Bridge to Durban
Friday, October 14th, 2011
From October 1-7, 2011 the UNFCCC held an Intersessional in Panama City, Panama. The City known for the famous Panama Canal, which connects ships carrying goods from the Eastern Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere and vice versa, also served as a crucial connection between the Bonn, Germany Intersessional [see article on UNFCCC Bonn conference] and COP-17 in Durban, South Africa.
Parties’ main goal of the Intersessional was to come to areas of convergence so they could develop draft text in Panama City that can be negotiated for decisions in Durban. The Intersessional held informal negotiations on agenda items under the Ad-hoc Working Group on the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA). A small advocacy team went to Panama City focusing on the negotiations under the AWG-LCA [see UNFCCC website for more information] and provided technical advice to delegates including those supported by the Women Delegates Fund.
Tags: Climate Change, UNFCCC, WEDO
Posted in Library, News, UNFCCC, WEDO at COP17, WEDO Worldwide |
WEDO speaks at the UN Human Rights Council on Women and the Right to Water
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
On Monday, September 26th, WEDO delivered a statement at the 18th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, High Level Panel on “Women and the Right to Water”. WEDO Board Member, Katherine McDonald, sat on a panel alongside colleagues from ISIS International, MADRE, Swiss Red Cross and WECF (Women in Europe for a Common Future). The panel began with a from statement of UN Special Rapporteur Catarina de Albuquerque, author of “Climate Change and …
Tags: Climate Change, Human Rights, Water
Posted in Civil Society Participation, Library, News, Water |
NEW PUBLICATION: Governing Climate Funds: What Will Work for Women?
Friday, September 9th, 2011
New York, September 9th 2011– WEDO is proud to present a new joint publication with Gender Action and Oxfam: “Governing Climate Funds: What Will Work for Women?”
As the international community mobilizes in response to global climatic changes, climate funds must ensure the equitable and effective allocation of funds for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Women and girls, disproportionately vulnerable to negative climate change impacts in developing countries, have largely been excluded from climate change finance policies and programmes. This report examines four funds –climate funds and non-climate funds, to draw out the lessons for gender integration in global finance mechanisms. Women and girls must not only be included in adaptive and mitigative activities, but also recognized as agents of change who are essential to the success of climate change interventions.
Tags: Climate Change, Climate Finance, UNFCCC
Posted in Climate Finance, Library, News, UNFCCC |
Advancing Gender Equality in the Green Climate Fund: Letter to UN Women
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
New York, August 17th, 2011– Last week, members of the Women and Gender Constituency sent a letter to Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General of UN Women to ask UN Women to take a more prominent advocacy role in the negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), particularly in the development of a new Green Climate Fund (GCF).
Click here to view the full letter.…
Tags: Civil Society Participation, Climate Change, Climate Finance, GEAR Campaign, UN Women
Posted in Climate Finance, Library |
