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TWITTER CHAT ON UNFCCC GENDER DECISION
Highlights of the Twitter chat with Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Excecutive Secretary, are compiled in storify now. The chat was organised by GGCA and aimed at discussing the key objectives and entry points of the UNFCCC COP18...[more]
MOMENTUM FOR CHANGE: WOMEN FOR RESULTS
On March 8, the International Womens Day, the UNFCCC Secretariat launched the call for applications for Momentum for Change: Women for Results.[more]
ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURE CREATES A CARE DEFICIT
Unpaid care work contributes immensely to the economy, adding value of about 41% to the GDP in Switzerland alone, but without appearing in the official statistics. Care work remains largely unrecognized despite feminist...[more]
PUBLIC EVENT: SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY AND CARE
Womens networks and feminist economists across the world have called for a paradigm shift in economic thinking and activities. Such a radical change would account for valuing the (unpaid) care work of (predominantly) women and...[more]
BREAKING NEWS: GENDER DECISION AT COP18
The EU introduced a decision promoting gender balance in the UN climate negotiation process to the COP Plenary session. The decision "Promoting gender balance through improving the participation of women in UNFCCC negotiations...[more]
GENDER DAY @ COP18
For the first time in the UNFCCC COPs a Gender Day was announced by the UNFCCC secretariat. Throughout Nov. 27, 2012 a range of events took place, promoting women's participation and 'moving beyond rethoric". In a...[more]
UNFCCC SECRETARIAT ANNOUNCES GENDER DAY AT COP 18 IN DOHA/QATAR
The UNFCCC secretariat is organising a Gender Day at the upcoming Conference of the Parties (COP18) in Doha on November 27, 2012. Part of the Gender Day is a 3 hours event, collaboratively organised by the Women and Gender...[more]
THE FUTURE WE DON'T WANT
At Rio+20, governments had a historic chance to take bold steps to end poverty and environmental destruction, to protect the rights of the most vulnerable members of our societies, to take concrete measures to fully implement...[more]
GENDER & CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE EU27 MEMBER STATES
The report LIFE/genanet and Milieu Ltd prepared for the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is now published. It compiles research and knowledge on gender and climate change in the 27 EU member states, and researched...[more]
WOMEN AND GREEN ECONOMY HEARING
Another public hearing was organised by the FEMM committee in the European Parliament, focussing on The role of women in the Green Economy.The webstream is still to be viewed here (accessed 13-04-2012): [more]
