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WEDO Womens
Environment & Development Organization
Womens
Perspectives on Just Climate Policy: COP21 and Beyond
GERMANY (June 4,
2015) What
are the different perspectives that womens rights activists can bring to the
table when it comes to ensuring just climate action? This was the broader
question addressed in the shared Women & Gender Constituency side event on
June 4th, 2015, hosted by WEDO, GenderCC and LIFE e.V. The panelists provided
regional perspectives on key elements ranging from appropriate climate finance
to safe and sustainable technology transfer and development.
The event was
opened by Bridget Burns (WEDO/co-focal point), who presented the Women &
Gender constituency position paper on the 2015 new climate agreement. As a
collaborative effort, the position paper lays out the key requirements of a
just and gender-responsive climate agreement and is shaped by a variety of
experiences, which were highlighted by the speakers in turn: Tess Vistro (Asia
Pacific Forum on Women, Law & Development) called attention to the impacts
of disasters on women and the need for capacity building in the Philippines,
accompanied by a moving video. She highlighted the resilience of women and the
powerful movement they built in the wake of Haiyan.
Queensley Ajuyakpi
(Women Environmental Programme) shared information about her work on projects
relating to adaptation and improving energy access for women in Nigeria,
stressing the need to provide adequate finance to support women and ensure that
their traditional knowledge is utilized.
Building upon
these concrete examples, Sabine Bock (Women in Europe for a Common Future) drew
the link to technology transfer and the need for safe technology that meets
community needs and is socially sound and sustainable, both in developing and
industrialized countries.
Ulrike Roehr
(LIFE) expanded on role of industrialized countries and the importance of not
limiting the discussion to technological solutions, but also addressing and
researching the gender dimensions of consumption and energy use, and tackling
the issues of behavioral change and power relations.
Finally,
Pashpanzhu Vitery Vacaccela, an Quichuan indigenous woman leader from Ecuador
shared experiences of implementing mitigation and adaptation projects in the
Amazon, particularly engaging with indigenous women and their traditional
knowledge and technology to promote food security and respect territorial
management.
To start the
discussion, respondents from other Constituencies were invited to provide their
feedback, led by a trade union representative from the UK who stressed the need
for a strong shared voice from civil society in the lead up to Paris. Other
audience members discussed with panelists land-use issues and the challenge of
providing rights protections in existing and planned market-based mechanisms,
given that these have proven to be harmful to women in many contexts.
Participants decided that there is an ongoing need for further clarity on
gender-related concepts and detailed policy recommendations, which will no
doubt be the focus of the in-session workshop on gender and womens equality in
week 2.
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The
twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the
eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the
Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) will take place from 30 November to 11
December 2015, in Paris, France.
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Factsheet:
Exposing Gender Gaps in Financing Climate Change Mitigation & Proposing
Solutions
WARSAW, POLAND - Contributing to the COP19 focus on gender
issues and climate change, we are pleased to release Financing
Mitigation Exposing Gender Gaps in Financing Climate Change Mitigation and
Proposing Solutions a collaborative research initiative of the
Womens Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), the Global Gender and
Climate Alliance (GGCA),and the International Network on Gender and Sustainable
Energy (ENERGIA), thanks to the generous support of the Climate &
Development Knowledge Network (CDKN).)