The Doha Gaps: Seeking Miracles, Solidarity and Good Old Fashioned Hope to Fill Them

Friday, December 14th, 2012

New York, New York (December 14, 2012)– On the heels of Hurricane Sandy, which tore a destructive path through the Caribbean and up the East coast of the U.S., and during Typhoon Bopha, the worst, most devastating storm to occur in the Philippines in half a century, the eighteenth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP18) in Doha, Qatar, failed to reflect reality.

COP18 ended Saturday night, December …

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NEW: Report on Women’s Participation in the UNFCCC

Friday, December 14th, 2012

New York, New York (December 14, 2012)– Especially in light of COP18 agreeing a new decision on promoting women’s participation in the UNFCCC, WEDO is proud to release its latest report highlighting statistics on women’s participation in the climate change process. This new reports looks in depth at women’s participation in the UNFCCC over the last 5 years, graphically portraying data on the overall percentage of women on national delegations, as Heads of Delegations and on …

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Making Our Voices Heard: Interventions at COP18

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

New York, New York (December 11, 2012)– Recognized as an official constituency of the UNFCCC in 2011, the Women and Gender Constituency works to ensure human rights and gender equality are incorporated into UNFCCC negotiations, agreements, plans and actions. The Constituency is currently comprised of eight* observer NGOs to the UNFCCC, some of whom are networks. Individuals and organisations engaged in women and gender issues who are not accredited to the UNFCCC are encouraged to work through accredited members …

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New Statistics on Women’s Participation at the UNFCCC

Sunday, September 23rd, 2012

NEW YORK (September 23, 2012)– In monitoring WEDO’s work on women’s leadership and participation at the UNFCCC, we are pleased to provide the most recent 2011 & 2012 overall statistics on women as percentage of national delegations and women as heads of delegations. As we have not yet had COP18, the 2012 statistics are incomplete and final stats will be released during COP18.

Current numbers show that women’s participation in this process has increased both at …

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Rio Conventions Launch Brochure on Gender Mainstreaming

Friday, June 22nd, 2012

RIO DE JANEIRO (June 19 2012)-Official press release from IISD Reporting Services

On the sidelines to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) launched a joint brochure outlining gender mainstreaming in the three Conventions, and describing challenges and opportunities for synergistic action.

The information brochure, titled “The Rio Conventions: …

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Posted in CBD, Rio +20, Sustainable Development, UNCCD, UNFCCC |