WEDO and partners develop priorities for the upcoming CSD 15 (30 April – 11 May 2007) and have submitted them to the Secretariat for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Priorities include these key points:
- Integrating a gender perspective into energy planning, decision-making, management and implementation
- Enhancing the roles and status of women, as participants and agents of change
- Providing access for all to reliable, affordable energy services
- Improving health by reducing indoor air pollution from traditional fuel use
- Taking action on climate change and ensuring gender-sensitivity in related policies and programs
- Ensuring accountability for sustainable industrial development
- Alternative energy sources that do not endanger the environment or health
