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Assessment of the Copenhagen outcomes

A short assessment and a common press release by members of the UNFCCC Women and Gender constituency complain of the lacking signal for a gender and climate just future but call for not to give up hope. more

gender into climate policy!

GenderCC's new toolkit for climate experts and decision-makers covers the major issues of the climate change negotiations and introduces methods to be used for mainstreaming gender into climate policy. more

New Press Releases

GenderCC has published a number of press releases on various salient questions during the UNFCCC negotiations that are ready for use by journalists. more

GenderCC @ Copenhagen

Many gender events are scheduled for Copenhagen and, of course, GenderCC will be there raising awareness for gender issues and lobbying for a gender paragraph in the shared vision of a new agreement. Read  more

Network Information updated

You can find in depth information about GenderCC - Women for Climate Justice, as well as News, Events and Resourcelinks on our new Network-site more

Constituency of Women & Gender NGOs

The UNFCCC secretariat decided to recognize women and gender NGOs as official constituency in its own right as of Nov 2009. Gotelind Alber, GenderCC, is the constituency's focal point in the first phase. more

Women on the Road to Copenhagen: Current stop Bangkok

A series of intersessional meetings pave the road to Copenhagen advancing the negotitations in order to facilitate results at COP15. Latest updates from Bangkok you can finde here. more


News

03.02.10
21-23 June 2010, Bonn, Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2010

Since 2008 the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum takes place regularly. more

02.02.10
Peoples' conference on climate change and mother earth's rights

20th to 22nd April 2010 in Cochabamba, Bolivia more

02.02.10
Indigenous protesters disrupt climate debate

TWO Aboriginal women have disrupted federal parliament an hour into a heated deb more

02.02.10
CfP: Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change

The 2010 conference will be the tenth event in the series of annual European Con more

29.01.10
Global priorities for 2010

United Nations (UN) General Assembly (GA) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon outlined more

29.01.10
Use resources around you

There is a need to use the resources around you instead of waiting for assistanc more

26.01.10
Women and the environment

WomenWatch online discussion, 1 - 27 February 2010  more

26.01.10
Bangladesh Char Women Live at Mercy of Monsoons

The men of Bangladesh's tiny islands, called chars, often leave home in the summ more


Who we are

gendercc – women for climate justice is the global network of women and gender activists, and gender experts from all world regions working for gender and climate justice. Since our collaboration has started at UNFCCC COP9 in Milan in 2004, the response to our efforts is increasing... more


Acknowledgement

The development and technical implementation of the platform was funded by the German Ministry for Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety. Financial support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Oxfam Novib contributes to maintain the site and to facilitate the network.