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New York, June 17–WEDO invites you to join us at Peoples Voices on the Crisis, an event we’re co-sponsoring that aims to shed light on the all-too-real social and environmental impacts of the current financial, food, energy and climate change crises. The event will bring together activists from civil society organizations, trade unions and grassroots groups on a local, national and international level who will give testimony on how their lives and communities are being directly affected by this systemic crisis. The event precedes a major UN event on the economic and financial crises, being held 24-26 June 2009 at…
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What do women’s rights have to do with climate finance? Investing in women is one of the most effective ways to advance sustainable development and fight climate change devastation. Taking an in-depth look at the Philippines, WEDO explores the gender dimensions of climate finance at the national level in our latest publication Gender and Climate Change Finance: A Case Study from the Philippines.
Existing conditions and discrimination determine who is most impacted by “natural” disasters. Women are the majority of the 1.3 billion people living in the deepest poverty worldwide, and people in poverty bear the brunt of climate change…
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WEDO challenges the dominant approach to climate change that prioritizes market-based solutions over human rights-based policies which seek to protect the most vulnerable. By documenting the key economic dimensions of climate change policies and processes and their implications for women, WEDO advocates for climate change financing that is gender sensitive.
Working with partners in Africa and Asia to produce case studies and to develop a platform to impact key global processes, WEDO is also analyzing the major market-based approaches to climate change mitigation, including large-scale bio-fuel production and carbon trading, from a gender perspective. The WEDO MisFortune…
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Adaptation funds for climate change must include gender.
Gender Equality and Adaptation (pdf)
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WEDO’s July 2008 newsletter, featuring an interview with Alexandra Spieldoch of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, updates on the GEAR campaign and more!
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