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UNFCCC Gender Day at the COP 18 / CMP 8 - Qatar - November 27,
2012
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Raise awareness of the gender and climate change issues and
celebrate women and the role they play in addressing climate change.
GLOBAL GENDER &
CLIMATE ALLIANCE - GGCA Incorporating a gender perspective in all
climate change
policies and initiatives is critical to solving the climate crisis.
GGCA COP18 PRIORITY
ACTIONS FOR GENDER EQUALITY
Women are on the front lines of climate
change, yet too often are missing in key climate policy discussions, including
at the UNFCCC. The Bali Action Plan (including the Ad-Hoc Working Group on
Long-Term Cooperative Action under the Convention (LCA)), which is due to close
in Doha, has marked real progress in mainstreaming gender into the UN climate
change negotiations, yet still women remain significantly under-represented in
key bodies of the Convention. As the transition to the Ad-Hoc Working Group on the
Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) is made in Doha, it is vital that
women's voices are heard and gender considerations continue to be mainstreamed
across the negotiations. In particular:
1.
Recognizing the progress achieved over the last four years to integrate
critical gender equality and women’s rights issues across the six pillars of
the Bali Action Plan, THE LCA SHOULD REAFFIRM THE IMPORTANCE OF
GENDER-RESPONSIVE CLIMATE POLICIES AND PROGRAMMING.
2. Building
on the significant progress on gender provisions in the UNFCCC while looking
ahead toward more effective implementation, THE ADP VISION SHOULD
EMBRACE A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH THAT INTEGRATES SOCIAL DIMENSIONS AND FURTHER
ADVANCES GENDER EQUALITY PROVISIONS ALREADY ACHIEVED IN THE LCA.
3. UNFCCC DECISIONS SHOULD TRANSLATE INTO MEANINGFUL ACTION AND
PRACTICE THAT PROMOTES AND ENSURES GENDER RESPONSIVE CLIMATE POLICY AND
PRACTICE. The proposal for a new decision to promote gender equality
through improving the participation of women in UNFCCC negotiations and in the
representation of Parties in bodies established by the UNFCCC and the Kyoto
Protocol is an example of one such meaningful action.
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http://gender-climate.org/What-We-Do/
The primary goal of the Global Gender and Climate Alliance
(GGCA) is to ensure that climate change policies, decisionmaking, and
initiatives at the global, regional, and national levels are gender responsive.
The GGCA works toward four complementary
objectives:
Integrate a gender
perspective into policy and decision making in order to ensure international
mandates and other legal instruments on gender equality are fully implemented.
Ensure that financing
mechanisms on mitigation and adaptation address the needs of poor women and men
equitably.
Billions of dollars will be spent to finance climate change
mitigation and adaptation initiatives. In order to ensure that climate change
finance mechanisms are gender responsive, the GGCA collaborates with women’s
economic justice and environmental networks, governments, and the private
sector to deliver gender guidelines on adaptation, mitigation, and private
sector finance.
Build capacity at all
levels to design and implement gender-responsive climate change policies,
strategies and programmes.
The GGCA developed the Training Manual on Gender and Climate
Change focused on the Bail Action Plan building blocks of mitigation,
adaptation, technology, and finance. Since 2008, hundreds of delegates
have been trained using the Manual, which is now available in 4
languages.
Develop, compile, and
share practical tools, information, and methodologies to facilitate the
integration of gender into policy and programming.
The members of the GGCA have produced cutting edge tools and
publications in the area of gender and climate change and regularly exchange
knowledge and explore emerging areas. Please see the list Publications by GGCA
Members.