New Report: Gender-Responsive Strategies on Climate Change: recent progress and ways forward for donors

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

New York, July 22nd, 2011– Gender equality is an important pre-condition for successful climate change adaptation, and transition to low-carbon alternatives in developing countries. In order for this transition to be effective, climate change adaptation and low-carbon efforts need to be gender-responsive taking into account the specific needs of men and women and the gendered inequalities that may compound the impacts of climate change. New report by Agnes Otzelberger of CARE. “Gender-responsive strategies on climate change: Progress and ways forward for donors”

Tags: Climate Change
Posted in Climate Change, News |

Weathering the Storm: Adolescent Girls and Climate Change

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

July 19, 2011–Original article published by IUCN

By Ms Kanwal Ahluwalia, Gender Equality Advisor, Plan UK

Plan International’s Weathering the Storm: Adolescent Girls and Climate Change highlights the need to better integrate the specific needs of adolescent girls in climate change and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes.

The findings presented in the report are based on interviews with girls involved in Plan International’s programmes in Ethiopia and Bangladesh. We were particularly keen to hear …

Tags: Climate Change, Gender Equality
Posted in In The News, Library, News |

Gender equality and the Green Climate Fund

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Tokyo, Japan– The second meeting of the Transitional Committee (TC) to design the Green Climate Fund (GCF) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded yesterday in Tokyo, Japan. The Cancun Agreements, adopted at COP16 at the end of 2010, established the “Green Climate Fund” to provide assistance to developing countries. As the international community now works to design this global climate fund, WEDO and its partners are working to ensure the equitable and effective allocation of funds for the world’s most vulnerable populations. At the regional Transitional Committee meeting in Tokyo, women and gender issues were highlighted in various ways.

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UNFCCC Side Event – Women and Climate Finance – Past Experiences Inspiring Future Funds

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Bonn, Germany, June 13, 2011 – GGCA, in partnership with the Government of Finland, IUCN, the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice (MRFCJ), Oxfam, UNDP, UNEP and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), organized a UNFCCC side event entitled Women and Climate Finance – Past Experiences Inspiring Future Funds. The event, chaired by Mary Robinson (former President of Ireland), focused on lessons learned through mainstreaming gender in development funds and considered how these experiences can serve as a foundation for integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment into climate finance mechanisms.

Tags: Climate Change, Climate Finance, UNFCCC
Posted in Climate Finance, GGCA, Library, UNFCCC |

Women and Gender Constituency on Gender, Adaptation, and REDD+

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Bonn, Germany, June 17th 2011– Today, WEDO’s Rachel Harris delivered an intervention on behalf of the Women and Gender Constituency at the UNFCCC.

“Despite clear evidence of the gender differentiated impacts of climate change, especially in developing countries, vulnerability assessments and adaptation studies do not reflect such differentiation and thus limit the efficiency of such analyses for appropriate gender sensitive adaptation measures. The review of the guidelines could provide several opportunities for countries to do …

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Posted in Adaptation, Civil Society Participation, Gallery, Library, News, REDD+, UNFCCC |