Rethinking the Climate Grant: Mobilizing Climate Finance for Women-led Adaptation Work Women-led climate initiatives often fail to fit comfortably within the existing conceptual approaches to climate action, making it hard for grassroots women’s adaptation work to be sufficiently funded. By Azita Azargoshasb
Mobilizing Women’s “Power of the Purse” to Help Achieve Sustainable Consumption Women control or influence 65 percent of global consumer spending, which amounts to $20 trillion annually. In most countries, women are in charge of household purchasing, which accounts for more than 60 percent of all consumption impacts, once the entire life cycle of manufacturing products and providing services is taken into account. With this in mind, strategies are needed to encourage women to direct their spending to support sustainable development. By Diane MacEachern
Gender Relations and Women’s Vulnerability to Climate Change Recognizing the significance of inequitable gender relations for women’s vulnerability to climate change, this study analyzes if and how an adaptation measure involving a relocation program that gives titles to new public housing to women implemented in response to severe flooding in the Mexican state of Tabasco in 2007, has contributed to modifying gender relations and strengthening gender equality. By Jenny Jungehülsing
Gender and Climate Finance: Double Mainstreaming for Sustainable Development Climate change is not gender-neutral. Suffering from gender-based vulnerabilities to climate change, women are more often victims of climate change than men; however, women also possess knowledge of and experiences in capacities to mitigate as well as strategies to cope and adapt, which makes them important “agents of change” in the fight against global warming. By Liane Schalatek
Panel Discussion: The Gender Impacts of the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline and the West African Gas Pipelines Please join us for a discussion on the gender impacts of the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline and West African Gas Pipelines (WAGP), both financed in part by International Financial Institutions (IFIs), namely the World Bank Group and European Investment Bank. Location is Washington DC on the 9th of Sept. 2011.
Statement of cross-constituency civil society coalition of the “Friends of Gender” for Gender Considerations in the Green Climate Fund This paper is a first introductory joint submission of several civil society groups from the environment (ENGO) and women and gender constituencies concerned with ensuring that gender considerations are adequately considered and mainstreamed in the work of the Transitional Committee and that gender equality is taken up as a cross-cutting issue and guiding principle for the new Green Climate Fund.
Videodocumentary: Women fighting for Evironmental and Climatejustice This videodocumentary shows how women on the countryside and in urban areas try to improve their situation by being geared to ecological principles. Further they are engaged in politics, too.