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Climate change and gender
“(…) In Africa it is estimated that 80 per cent of food production is managed by woman. An analysis by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates that the worst impacts of climate change will be on the poorest regions and the poorest people, who have the fewest resources for meeting the changes brought by increasing droughts, floods or storms. As many as 70 per cent of these poor people are women.
(…) We urge governments, relevant international organisations and financing institutions to cooperate and: nominate female and male delegates to climate meeting, include climate change and gender as an item on the agendas of relevant high-level meetings, draw active attention to the gender-related impacts on climate change and to the positive role women could play in influencing climate change and to contribute effectively at local levels, e.g. through sustainable agriculture, forest and water management, and increasing the use of renewable energy’.
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
http://formin.finland.fi
Climate change and gender
“(…) In Africa it is estimated that 80 per cent of food production is managed by woman. An analysis by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates that the worst impacts of climate change will be on the poorest regions and the poorest people, who have the fewest resources for meeting the changes brought by increasing droughts, floods or storms. As many as 70 per cent of these poor people are women.
(…) We urge governments, relevant international organisations and financing institutions to cooperate and: nominate female and male delegates to climate meeting, include climate change and gender as an item on the agendas of relevant high-level meetings, draw active attention to the gender-related impacts on climate change and to the positive role women could play in influencing climate change and to contribute effectively at local levels, e.g. through sustainable agriculture, forest and water management, and increasing the use of renewable energy’.
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
http://formin.finland.fi
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