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Gendercc Updates
GenderCC cooperates with Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle is organising a Global Media Forum from 21-23 June 2010 in Bonn, focusing on climate change and the media. GenderCC is partnering with Deutsche Welle to address the issue 'Gender and climate Change'. more
Assessment of the Copenhagen outcomes
A short assessment and a common press release by members of the UNFCCC Women and Gender constituency complain of the lacking signal for a gender and climate just future but call for not to give up hope. more
GenderCC's new toolkit for climate experts and decision-makers covers the major issues of the climate change negotiations and introduces methods to be used for mainstreaming gender into climate policy. more
GenderCC has published a number of press releases on various salient questions during the UNFCCC negotiations that are ready for use by journalists. more
Many gender events are scheduled for Copenhagen and, of course, GenderCC will be there raising awareness for gender issues and lobbying for a gender paragraph in the shared vision of a new agreement. Read more
You can find in depth information about GenderCC - Women for Climate Justice, as well as News, Events and Resourcelinks on our new Network-site more
Constituency of Women & Gender NGOs
The UNFCCC secretariat decided to recognize women and gender NGOs as official constituency in its own right as of Nov 2009. Gotelind Alber, GenderCC, is the constituency's focal point in the first phase. more
News
11.03.10
Women hit by climate change head to Capitol Hill
Women hit hard by the effects of climate change - drought, floods, sea level ris more
11.03.10
Dealing with climate change demands a more gendered approach
The major concern of the present world is climate change and environmental degra more
11.03.10
Gender and climate justice in a Cambodian cashew nut orchard
The story of Nhek Oeng, a woman farmer from Cambodia who has taken on a leadersh more
10.03.10
Gender, Power and Climate Change Conference in Lund Sweden
On 18 and 19 March, the Department of Political Science and Lund University Cent more
08.03.10
The U.N. Men’s Club: Why are women being left out of climate decision-making?
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced an important new climate change fin more
08.03.10
Call for papers: Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
This social-environmental interface, namely the risks, potentials, challenges an more
05.03.10
Gender equality stressed at conference on eliminating food insecurity
Food insecurity in Africa is a massive and multifaceted problem that experts hav more
05.03.10
Defining the new American gender agenda
There has been much debate both within Washington and without as to what the new more
Who we are
GenderCC – women for climate justice is the global network of women and gender activists, and gender experts from all world regions working for gender and climate justice. Since our collaboration has started at UNFCCC COP9 in Milan in 2004, the response to our efforts is increasing...more
Acknowledgement
The development and technical implementation of the platform was funded by the German Ministry for Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety. Financial support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Oxfam Novib contributes to maintain the site and to facilitate the network.
