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Get Ready for People’s Voices on the Financial Crisis
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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Library Keywords: Add new tag, trade and finance
Resource Type: News
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New Case Study: Gender and Climate Change Finance, Philippines
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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Library Keywords: climate change, trade and finance
Resource Type: Climate Change & Gender Mobilization Project in Developing Countries, Gender & Climate Finance, News, Portable Document, Press Releases
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Gender & Climate Finance
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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Library Keywords: climate change, trade and finance
Resource Type: Climate Change
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Gender Equality and Adaptation
Adaptation funds for climate change must include gender.
Gender Equality and Adaptation (pdf)
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Library Keywords: climate change, miscellaneous, sustainable development, trade and finance
Resource Type: Factsheets, Gender & Climate Finance, Portable Document, Publications
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WEDO News and Views July 2008
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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Library Keywords: climate change, corporate accountability, miscellaneous, power and politics, sustainable development, trade and finance, united nations reform
Resource Type: Interviews, Newsletter Archive, Portable Document
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