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 stories from girls themselves in relation to how climate change is impacting on their lives and what they feel that policy makers…

Tags: Climate Change, Gender Equality
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A Gender Just Climate Regime: What’s at stake in Bonn?

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Bonn, Germany, April 10, 2010 — The Women and Gender Constituency to the UNFCCC delivered its first joint press conference today, featuring speakers from WEDO, GenderCC and WECF and moderated by LIFE.

Moderator Ulrike Röhr, LIFE – Equality, Environment, Education introduced the session.

Marine Franck, Policy Officer Climate Change, WECF France, focused on procedural and organizational aspects and the involvement of civil society. Climate impacts require urgent attention and treatment by all Parties; another failure is possible in Mexico and this is why procedural issues have to be taken seriously.…

Tags: Civil Society Participation, Gender Equality, UNFCCC
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Join WEDO in urging UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to appoint women to the High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (Update)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

New York, March 10 — In response to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s recent appointment of an all-male High Level Advisory Board on Climate Change Financing, we have written the attached open letter expressing the need for women to be on the high level board.  We invite you to add your organization’s name to the letter.

If you would like to sign your organization to this letter please send the name of your organization to rachel [at] wedo [dot] org by noon Friday 12 March.  We look forward to presenting this letter to SG Ban Ki-moon before the end of CSW.…

Tags: Climate Change, Climate Finance, Gender Equality
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Press Release: Milestone Gender and Climate Change Agreement on Horizon

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Barcelona, November 4—Copenhagen agreement may be the first to recognize the gender dimensions of climate change, saving the lives of millions of women and children and taking a major step toward addressing the human impacts of climate change.

“The women of the world are demanding a paradigm shift that ensures their participation and leadership on decisions that affect their very survival and that of their families and communities,” said Lorena Aguilar, Senior Gender Advisor for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), on the occasion of the UNFCCC negotiations currently taking place in Barcelona, Spain, ahead of the Copenhagen…

Tags: Climate Change, Gender Equality, GGCA, UNFCCC
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Conference: Gender – Power – Climate. Feminist Perspectives on Climate Change and Justice

Friday, July 31st, 2009

[ September 21, 2009 to September 25, 2009. ]

September 21-25, 2009, Kiel, Germany: WEDO’s Nadia Johnson will provide the keynote address at “Gender – Power – Climate. Feminist Perspectives on Climate Change and Justice”, a conference organized by the German Association for Political Science.

https://www.dvpw.de/kongresse/dvpw2009.html

Tags: Climate Change, Gender Equality
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