Women are leading the fight against climate change and other urgent environmental issues that confront the planet, according to Dr. Sarah Otterstrom, Executive Director of Paso Pacifico, at the Clinton Global Initiative. In Nicaragua, women are leading reforestation efforts and have planted over 100,000 native trees. Their work has offset more than 150,000 tons of [...]
Archive for October, 2011
11 Oct
Abibiman Launches Women And Climate Change Justice Hearing 2011
The Abibiman Foundation, a Tema-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), on Friday launched the 2011 Women and Climate Change Justice Hearing 2011 – The Road to Durban project, under the theme; “Strengthening Voices, Searches for Solution” at the Tema Central market. The Women and Climate Change Justice Hearing is an attempt by the NGO to give hearing [...]
11 Oct
Women at receiving end of #climate change | The Asian Age
Although women are admittedly bearing the brunt of climate change, India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) has remained gender-blind and does not focus on gender issues. Aditi Kapoor’s report Engendering the Climate for Change — Policies and Practices for Gender-Just Adaptation highlights that the four adaptation-focused missions remain largely techno-managerial in their orientation [...]
11 Oct
‘Climate change pushes poor women to prostitution, dangerous work’
The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade, a United Nations official said. Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to [...]
