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Exposing Gender Gaps in Financing Climate Change Mitigation

WARSAW, POLAND (November 18, 2013) – What are the gender gaps in climate change mitigation? This is the question the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA) and the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy (ENERGIA) answer in their new publication: Exposing Gender Gaps in Financing Climate Change Mitigation – and Proposing Solutions and in a summary factsheet (available in English, French and Spanish).…

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WEDO Launches: From research to action, leaf by leaf: getting gender right in REDD+ SES

NEW YORK (June 10, 2013)– WEDO, in partnership with the REDD+ SES Secretariat, and with support from Norad and the Ford Foundation, is pleased to present its newest publication, From research to action, leaf by leaf: getting gender right in REDD+ SES.…

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WEDO Celebrates Outgoing Board Chair and Welcomes New Board Chair

NEW YORK (May 7, 2013)– After nearly a decade of extraordinary commitment to the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), Ms. Monique Essed Fernandes of Suriname retired from the Board of Directors earlier this year.…

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Peace and Joy from the WEDO Family to You!

Dear Friends,

This year has been a productive and promising one. Despite challenges and barriers to women’s rights and sustainability, there have been wonderful flickers of progress toward gender equality and a more equitable world that will continue to inspire our work in 2013.…

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The Doha Gaps: Seeking Miracles, Solidarity and Good Old Fashioned Hope to Fill Them

New York, New York (December 14, 2012)– On the heels of Hurricane Sandy, which tore a destructive path through the Caribbean and up the East coast of the U.S., and during Typhoon Bopha, the worst, most devastating storm to occur in the Philippines in half a century, the eighteenth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP18) in Doha, Qatar, failed to reflect reality.…

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The Post 2015 Development Agenda: Perspectives from the Post 2015 Women's Coalition

New York, New York (December 10, 2012)– Developed by a coalition of organizations mobilizing around the Post 2015 Development Agenda, please find below a brief working paper on thoughts and perspectives on how this agenda should be shaped.…

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Meet Our International Team of Experts

HYDERABAD, INDIA (October 11, 2012)– With support from the CBD Secretariat, thirteen women experts in biodiversity, conservation and gender equality from 9 countries – India, Nepal, Colombia, Nigeria, Kenya, Costa Rica, Suriname, the Philippines, and the U.S.…

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Commemorating 20 years of the Beijing Platform for Action

NEW YORK, NEW YORK (August 23, 2012)—On March 8, 2012, International Women’s Day, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and President of the General Assembly, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qatar, made a joint statement proposing that the UN hosts a 5^th World Conference on Women in 2015. …

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