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– Women for Climate Justice is the global network of women and gender activists and
experts from all world regions working for gender and climate justice.
Press statement 'Women Can, Men Can’t?' GenderCC-Women for Climate Justice at the end of COP 16, Dec. 11, 2010
GenderCC
press release 'Gender in the Climate Money Grail', Cancún Dec 3, 2010
After intense discussions women and gender organisations at COP16 agreed in a position on 'Women and REDD', expressing their joint concerns regarding proposed policies and incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhance carbon stocks (REDD+). Download the position paper here.
The position is now open for signatures by
individuals and organisations. Please send your name (and organsiation),
country, email to Ana
Filippini, World Rainforest Movement.
Much has been said about the negotiations on
financing. But discussions after discussions and deadlock after deadlock,
nothing has changed on the issue of gender and women. The words remain invisible
and unspoken.
“For the global climate fund to be responsive to the needs of women and
communities, gender must be integrated in all aspects of financing, from the
management and operations of the fund to the selection criteria of the projects
to the monitoring of these projects,” asserted Nina Somera, a member of
GenderCC-Women for Climate Change.
GenderCC set out a few criteria on the allocation for the fund. Drawing from
previous studies which show gender differences over preference for public infrastructure
and energy sources and consumption, the group recommends that money be
allocated for public infrastructure such as water, transport and not highly
sophisticated but risky technologies such as nuclear energy and carbon capture
and storage.
Watch GenderCC's press conference on the official COP16 website
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GenderCC was on site and provided important information on gender justice and climate policy at its booth, such as a toolkit for climate experts and decision-makers covering the major issues of gender and climate change. The toolkit is available in English, Spanish, French and German and can also be downloaded on this website.
Furthermore, GenderCC held several events,
interventions and a press conference on which you will find more information
below.
Watch Gotelind Alber, Focal Point of the Women and Gender
Constituency, Nina Somera (GenderCC) and Claudia Gimena
Roa (FUNDAEXPRESSION) talk about gender and climate change at COP
16.
Gender has become an issue that is not only
addressed at side-events of the Women and Gender Constituency, but is also
finding increasing coverage on the web. UNIFEM is publishing a daily newsletter on the 2010 Climate Change Talks in
Cancún. Another interesting article devoted to the topic of 'Gender, Equitable Representation, Transparency' can be
found in the latest ECO newsletter.
Ana Agostino, ICAE, representing the women & gender NGOs constituency, addressed women's rights in her intervention in the high level segment. More disaster result in an increase of violence against women. She called for transformation of our current development paradigms that are driven by markets and profits and for agreeing collectively on a comprehensive approach to combat climate change and save ecosystem integrity and humanity’s future.
Sabine Bock, WECF held the first intervention on behalf of the Women and Gender Constituency at the AWG-KP plenary, stressing the importance for Member States to commit to take serious action in order to prevent a looming climate disaster.
Rachel Harris, WEDO addressed the delegates at the AWG-LCA plenary on the first day of the conference, and urged them to advance gender mainstreaming and equality in adaptation and mitigation processes.
The intervention on the "
GenderCC and
Read the ENB
coverage and see photos from this event
Worldwide, Governments are developing their
national climate change policies (NAPAs and NAMAs) and starting to implement
related measures and programs. Comparable to the international processes, women
and gender groups try to influence those processes and raise awareness on the
importance of gender and women concerns / perspectives.
In this workshop, experiences from
As a follow up from the side event, Colorado State University, GenderCC, George Washington University and Climatewise Women organised a workshop which aims at defining emerging research areas for action and major stakeholders, as well as developing a global research network of women.
Read an article about this event
on the official COP 16 website
Women are not only the most affected by climate change but also by the false solutions proposed. Within the workshop a specific focus was put on the impacts of monoculture tree plantations. The aim was to share and link with local women.
Jointly organised by RECOMA and GenderCC