Calendar of Upcoming Events

Dhaka, Bangladesh

20-22 March 2013 at World Conference Center Bonn, Germany

Call for applications opens on 8 March 2013

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Location: South Africa (Limpopo)
Venue: Karibu Leisure Resort and Conference Centre/NMN Grand Hotel

Suva, Fiji: The Annual Forum is a half-day and evening event, which includes Annual Forum Workshops (‘Action Groups’) and a  Networking Event for Young Professionals (including a ‘Knowledge Fair’ ).  The Annual Forum’s workshop activities will focus on the two key themes of gender and improved communications with communities, while the evening event focuses on youth and career development. Register Deadline: September 5, 2012. Brochure (PDF)

Location: Jeju, South Korea

Co-organized by Viet Nam and the Netherlands, in close collaboration with other partners, including FAO and the World Bank, the conference will allow global leaders, practitioners, scientists, civil society and the private sector to  share experiences and demonstrate how early action on Climate-Smart Agriculture can act as a driver of green growth.

Meetings of Ad Hoc Working Groups (further AI commitments, LCA, & Durban Platform for Enhanced Action).  See the UNFCCC Info note for further information.

GCF Board meeting.  See http://gcfund.net/meetings.html for further information.

The current ‘gender and climate change’ conversation on the Climate Change and Development (CCD) Community, of the Pacific Solution Exchange (PSE), is already attracting a wide range of Responses so Far to the Query. This Exchange facilitates knowledge-sharing across 1000+ members to help each other in our work by sharing ideas and lessons learned, avoiding duplication, and assisting in projects and policy development.  Deadline 21 August, 2012

Attracting Private Sector Investment to Rural and Agricultural Markets.

Time: 11am-1pm

Location: Mountain Pavilion (Athlete's Park)

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Time: 10-1pm

Location: Room (tbd)

RSVP to Lorena Aguilar

Objectives

• To showcase the value of partnerships in mainstreaming gender in critical thematic issues at Rio+20 (jobs, energy, cities, food, water, oceans, disasters, among others), illustrating successful partnerships in each and using gender as a valuable entry point and foundation;
• To provide a forum for participants to network with existing partnerships on gender and sustainable development, create synergies between partnerships and learn from each other’s experiences, as well as explore replicability and scaling up opportunities.

Time: (tbd)

Location: P3-1 Rio Centro

RSVP by invitation only

At the Women Leaders’ Summit, hosted by UN Women in collaboration with the Government of Brazil, women Heads of State and Governments will issue a strong Call to Action pledging their support and urging governments, civil society and the private sector to prioritize gender equality and women’s empowerment in the sustainable development agenda and accelerate actions for its implementation.

Time: 11:15-12:45pm

Location: Rio Conventions Pavilion within the Athletes Park

The purpose of the event is to highlight progress made and way forward in the process of mainstreaming and harmonizing gender in/between the Rio Conventions.

Time: 10 -12 pm

Location: Ford Foundation Pavilion (Museum of Modern Art)

RSVP to Tracy Mann or Vicky Markham

Six outstanding global women activists (from Uganda, Nigeria, Cook Islands, Mississippi/US, Philippines, and Brazil) young and old, share their personal narratives to help us understand the cross-cutting impacts of climate change and other environmental issues on their lives.  In conversation they’ll also discuss the importance of women’s empowerment and reproductive health, and new, innovative connections among women of all ages for practical implementation of the Rio+20 outcome and beyond.

Time: 3.00-4:45 pm 

Location: Room (tbd)

RSVP to Janet Macharia or Sascha Gabizon or Lorena Aguilar or Cate Owren

The high-level event is a follow-up to the decisions taken by the Network during its breakfast meeting held in Nairobi Kenya on 21 February 2012.  For the past two months, UNEP and its key strategic partners (IUCN,WEDO, GWP, GGCA, UNDP) have undertaken to develop a framework for implementation of the Global Call of Action and related activities through a consultative process involving governments, NGOs and UN agencies. In addition, they have identified activities that will be undertaken to commemorate the launching of the Global Call for Action on 20 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro.

Time: 4:30-6:00 pm

Location: Room T-3

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Contact Cristina Tirado - von der Pahlen 

The overall objective of the Partnerships Forum is to build on the mandate agreed at WSSD and CSD-11 and reenergize, revitalize and strengthen partnerships as one of the most participatory mechanisms to implement sustainable development and enhance international cooperation.

Time: 5:15-7:00pm

Location: Rio Conventions Pavilion

RSVP to Nathalie Eddy or Lorena Aguilar

In memory of Marie Aminata Khan of the CBD Secretariat, this celebration will award 10 women leaders for their leadership roles over the last 10 years.

Reception to follow

Time: 9:30am-6pm

Location: T-2 Rio Centro

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Open to All; Email for more information

A full day forum organized by UN Women in collaboration with the Government of Brazil and other partners. The panel event with government leaders, UN heads of agencies, grass roots activists, and private sector representatives, will highlight strategies and programmes that foster gender equality and sustainable development. Topics include: Advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in green economies; normative frameworks and the Integration of the three pillars of sustainable development; and shaping the new international development framework.

Time: 4:00-6:30pm

Location: Room UN2, Barra da Arena

Contact to Osprey Orielle Lake or View the Flyer

How will we leverage women’s vital sustainability contributions and climate solutions at speed and scale at the local and global level? How will we further empower a rights-based approach to sustainability and climate change solutions to respect Women’s rights, Indigenous rights and Nature’s rights?

Time: 3:10-4pm

Location: P-3

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Contact Marina Maiero maierom@who.int

Time: 1:25 - 2:45pm

Location: Room UN2 Barra da Arena

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RSVP Amandi Clarke  aclarke@popact.org

The event will start with a viewing of a short film, created by Population Action International, “Weathering Change,” which takes us to Ethiopia, Nepal and Peru to hear the stories of women as they struggle to care for their families while enduring crop failures and water scarcity.  The film shows how women and families are already adapting to the climate change challenges that threaten their health and their livelihoods.  Following the film, the event’s moderator will facilitate a discussion among youth leaders working to advance young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights and sustainable development.  The moderator will share the topic of the discussion and introduce the youth leaders.  The moderator will then open the discussion with a few questions that the youth leaders will respond to and comment on.  The moderator will facilitate a dialogue among the discussants and pose additional questions.  At the end of the discussion, the moderator will open the floor for questions for the discussants and facilitate and question and answer period prior to concluding the session.

Time: 11:30-1pm

Time: 9:30-11:00am

Location: P3-A Rio Centro

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Contact Madhav Karki mkarki@icimod.org

This side event aims to contribute to the ‘The Future We Want’ outcome document by highlighting the need to better manage mountain natural resources as global public goods supplying water for life, food for health, and clean energy for livelihoods. The event will focus on sharing research-based knowledge on such topics as conservation of fresh water resources and critical biodiversity, maintenance of gene pools, and protection of forest, wetland, and rangeland ecosystems. Particular attention will be given to strategies and action proposals for enhancing people’s livelihoods and wellbeing.

Time: 1:15-2:45pm

Location: UN2 Barra da Arena

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RSVP to Amandi Clarke aclarke@popact.org

The event will feature a screening a trailer of a short documentary, Weathering Change, produced by Population Action International.  The film documents how women empowerment, family planning, girls’ education, sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation are part of the solution for climate change and development. Following the film, a featured speaker, who will be a representative from the Population and Climate Change Alliance, will frame the discussion by highlighting a rights-based approach to meeting needs for reproductive health and family planning that is centered on gender equity and women’s empowerment. An additional speaker will briefly describe successful approaches that link reproductive health with natural resource management and climate change adaptation. A moderated discussion will follow.

Time: 11:30-1pm

Location: P3-6 Rio Centro

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Contact Esther de Jong estherdejong@chello.nl

This event seeks to influence the Rio outcomes and implementation as well as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the post 2012 MDGs. It also contributes to the Gender and Sustainable Development RIO+20 commitments. It will facilitate information exchange on gender strategies, actions and lessons learned on gender mainstreaming in water resources management throughout the world.

Time: 5;60-7pm

Location: UN2, Barra da Arena

Contact Liane Schalatek liane.schalatek@us.boell.org or Tracy Mann tmann@mglimited.com

This panel is looking at the obstacles in the current climate finance architecture of existing funding instruments that prevent a wider and better support of concrete climate actions by grassroots women in developing countries, both ongoing and future ones.  What steps are necessary – political, operational, financial and social – to overcome these hurdles?  What role do providers of public climate finance have to play in ensuring sufficient funding and an enabling regulatory and organizational environment?  What role can not-for-profit civil society organizations and philanthropic foundations play?  Is there a role for the private sector?

All day event at the SINAL DO VALE Retreat Center.  The objectives are:

• Welcome, Introductions and Visioning
• Global Women's Movement at the Earth Summit 1992 – Past, Present and Future.
• Leveraging Relationships and Building Strategic Collaborations and Reciprocity Ring™ exercise
• Strengthening the Women’s Movement around Climate Change — How Global Women Connect to Insure a Sustainable Future
• Reception & Networking

Time: 1:30 pm

Location: Room T-10

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Contact Jeannette Gurung jeannettegurung@wocan.org

The thematic focus of this side event is twofold: first, green economy - to present ideas on how new sources of financing can be of benefit to poverty reduction and sustainable development through women's leadership; and second, the institutional framework for sustainable development - to present evidence of how existing institutional mechanisms have undervalued women's roles and contributions.

Time: 1-3pm

Location: T-9

RSVP Amandi Clarke  aclarke@popact.org

The event will featured 3-4 panelists from Population Action International (PAI), African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), and the Regional Institute for Population Studies. To set the stage, a brief presentation on Why Population Matters will be presented by PAI to highlight how and why population impacts many aspects of our lives, including issues as diverse as poverty, health, education, water, and forests. PAI and AFIDEP will present results from research collaboration on population dynamics, climate change and sustainable development in Africa, including policy and program environment assessments in Kenya and Malawi. RIPS will discuss f urbanization, migration and gender aspects as they relate to climate change adaptation and development in West Africa. Groups will describe successful approaches that link reproductive health with natural resource management, climate change adaptation and sustainable development. A moderated discussion will follow.

Time: 3:30—5:00pm

Location: T-4

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Recognizing the number of global environmental challenges and security issues, there is a need to improve the knowledge base of all stakeholders, particularly decision-makers on the interplay of human and natural systems, with an understanding of new opportunities for investment, new technologies, and innovations, among others. Gender equity and women's leadership are essential components that link local to global action and community-based decision making.  

RSVP to Pam Puntenney

Please join the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus (WECC) on Friday, Jan. 27th from 7-9:30pm, Corte Madera, CA.

Gender Equity and Sustainable Development: Prioritizing Actions to Achieve Results
January 19, 2012 - 8:30am-5:00pm, followed by a reception

Conference Center, 1st floor 1400 16th Street, NW Washington, DC 20036

Keynote Speaker - The Honorable Melanne Verveer - Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, US Department of State

18:00 – 19:30
EU Pavilion - Warsaw Room

19:30 – 20:30
EU Pavilion - Warsaw Room

13:15—14:45
Indwe River Room

16:45—18:15
Room 2

16:45—18:15
Room 2

18:30—20:00

Room 1

20:15—21:45

Room 3

Tues – Thurs
Dec 6 -8
Township: location TBD

(by invitation only)
13:15—14:45

Room 5

15:00—16:30
Room 2

13:30 – 14:30
Olive Convention Center

18:30-20:00
Reception will follow
African Pavilion

Informing Community-Based Adaptation: a Gender Perspective

Ruth Mitei, from the Adaptation Learning Programme (ALP) for Africa, implemented by CARE

Speakers: Mary Robinson (former president of Ireland/President of Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice) and Joy Phumaphi (former Minister of Health of Botswana and former Vice President of Human Development, The World Bank)

Olive Convention Center, Durban

Addressing gender considerations in climate change adaptation and REDD+ efforts

Cohosted by IUCN and CIFOR, this session will discuss on-going efforts at increasing women's participation in current climate change mitigation, particularly in REDD+, and adaptation efforts. It will propose ways and means of increasing women's participation in decision-making and benefits, while recommending appropriate safeguards against further exclusion.

11:30—13:00
Room 3

Green Belt Movement (GBM) and The Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) will host a panel to discuss the impact of climate initiatives on rights and responsibilities including a CDM project for future REDD+ forestry projects.

15:00 — 16:30
Room 2

Nine research and training organizations from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Pacific and the Caribbean collectively form a Climate Change Capacity Development (C3D) network.

15:00—16:30
Room 1

Many African citizens are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. A large portion of them are also directly reliant on natural resources.

16:00 – 17:00
Digital Media Lounge

This interactive discussion will be organized in Durban in a "Digital Media Lounge" (DML) connected to a bloggers work area and the UNFCCC Secretariat's "Climate Change Studio" via the climate change TV connection.

13:00 – 14:00
Adaptation Hub

Join CARE, WEDO and other GGCA members for this informal Q & A session with gender and adaptation experts.

18:30—20:00
Room 3

An adaptation framework that works for everyone must incorporate complexities of vulnerability.

Gender and the Art of Implementation

An interactive learning session on practical experiences on the ground by experts. 

13:15—14:45
Room 1

The UN System in South Africa event will showcase innovative mitigation climate change approaches; community level adaptation initiatives; climate change vulnerabilities of special groups; innovative information and education approaches; and using science and technology to address climate change.

17:00 – 19:00 everyday
The Riverside Hotel, Durban

The objectives of this event are:

• Enhance the capacity of the WDF participants on the development of gender-sensitive national policies related to CC
• Identify a set of actions/steps that could be conducted at the national level by the WDF.

"Recognizing the disparate impact of climate change on women and the efforts of women globally to address climate change. "

 Women invited to Tweet with UN's top climate change official UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres - October 24, 2011 - 5:00-6:00pm CET.