Calendar of Upcoming Events

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

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: 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?

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: 9:30am-6pm

Location: T-2 Rio Centro

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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: 11:15-12:45pm

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: 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: 11am-1pm

Location: Mountain Pavilion (Athlete's Park)

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Attracting Private Sector Investment to Rural and Agricultural Markets.