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RSS | 15 November 2016

Op-ed: Making Paris Climate Change Agreement deliver for women and girls – the Marrakech opportunity

A truly transformational agenda on climate action and sustainable development with a historic gender equality compact was achieved in 2015. Parties to the Paris Agreement committed to take decisive action to arrest global warming and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to respect, promote and consider their obligations on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls when addressing climate change. This could and must be a departure point for ensuring that the fight against climate change must not only be about saving the one planet we have for future generations but equally about making it a Planet 50/50 for women and girls here and now and into the future.

Source: 
UN Women
Author(s): 
UN Women, SITE for women, climate change