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09 Mar 2017
Living Planet: Climate change worse for women
According to the United Nations, climate change further exacerbates existing gender inequalities. DW talks to Sonya Ayed-Karlsson, a climate ...
climate change
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17 Jan 2017
Placing Pacific women at the forefront of disaster planning and response
As the Pacific braces itself for another cyclone season, UN Women is leading efforts to ensure that women and girls are at the centre of disaster preparedness, response and recovery work.
UN Women // disaster risk reduction // climate change
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24 Nov 2016
Mainstreaming The Gender Dimension In India's Climate Change Discourse
The 4th Assessment Report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change released in 2007, unambiguously states that climate change is not ...
climate change // India // Gender mainstreaming
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21 Nov 2016
How Can Women Solve Climate Change?
Women have always been seen as weak and vulnerable, and it is no different when it comes to climate change. Women are almost often considered a charity case rather than active agents of change. But this narrative needs to change. It is true that women are differently impacted by climate change impacts. During the Young Feminists Day at the UN Climate Negotiations in Paris last year, Majandra...
Huffington Post // climate change // climate justice
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20 Nov 2016
Women have right to equality in all areas, says Luveni
Dr Luveni added climate change policies were gender-aware and provided equitable opportunities and value to both genders and the onus was on ...
Fiji // South Pacific // Pacific Islands // climate change // small island nations
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15 Nov 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...
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11 Oct 2016
“Climate-Resilient Gender Smart” Initiative –learning from lacking experiences in Bangladesh
It is globally acknowledged that women are disproportionately vulnerable under climate change/variability. Gender differences are continuously ...
Bangladesh // climate change adaptation
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30 Aug 2016
GenderInSITE Southern Africa: Applying the gender lens to Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience in Africa
On 4-5 July, GenderInSITE's regional focal point for Southern Africa, the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) will jointly hold a communications event in Ebene Cybercity, Mauritius to introduce a policymakers'...
ASSAf // Africa // agriculture // Genderinsite Activities // Southern Africa // aquaculture // climate change // Events // land ownership // Science Policy // Sustainability
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30 Aug 2016
Leading food organizations: Rural women are essential to food security
With increasing feminization of agriculture, support for women farmers is more critical than ever. At a gathering for International Women’s Day March 6 in Rome, world leaders in agriculture and development policy called attention to the importance of involving women farmers in efforts to improve global food security and nutrition. Representatives from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO...
agriculture // Food Security // Rural development
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30 Aug 2016
Low participation of women and unequal gender benefits in Payments for Ecosystem Services
A recent study of several payments for ecoystem services (PES) schemes in Kenya calls attention to the question of whether the benefits are accruing to both genders equally. ...
agriculture // climate change // land ownership // payments for ecosystem services // Sustainability