[Gcap-mujeres] invitation to participate in Gender Climate
Change Virtual Task force
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Lun Feb 28 18:19:18 UYST 2011
Gracias Marcela.
Iliana
>
>
>Dear Friends of the FTF,
>
>After our successful work in Cancun, we have
>decided to start a Gender and Climate Change
>virtual task force (CCH vtf) among our
>group to discuss issues related to women impact
>and participation in the activities that are
>promoted on Climate Change (CC).
>
>GCAP had in the past a Climate Change task
>force on which the FTF had two representatives.
>However, as some of us remember, due to several
>reasons, among them that the GCAP organizer
>left, the virtual task force stopped its work.
>
>CC impact and activities are not gender neutral,
>something that until now has very little
>understanding among governments and several
>constituencies. Therefore, the Facilitation Team
>of the FTF feels that is important to start a
>virtual task force to provide our vision on CC impact on women.
>
>The idea is that the FTF on CC meet
>virtually every four week to discuss among others issues:
>
>1. How to strategize and lobby the country of
>the participants to make CC National
>programs of Actions (NAPA) to include womens concerns;
>
>2. Develop activities to support women in the
>adaptation and mitigation planned activities;
>
>3. Organize actions to highlight women's
>situation , especially in coordination with
>important days such as 8 March, 15 October etc.
>
>4. Strategize on how to participate actively in
>the future COPs ( next 20011 in Durban) and
>lobby, including but not limited to the
>tribunals on gender and climate change and
>interfacing with the Steering Committee of the
>Communities Affected by Climate Change.
>
>These are only some ideas and others are very much welcome.
>
> The FTF, together with other organizations,
>participated in COP15 (Copenhagen) and COP
>16 ( Cancun) and because of the importance of
>the subject and the need that gender
>is taken into consideration in the
>Conventions and governments agenda, the FTF
>convenes to build up a Climate Change virtual task force (CCH vtf).
>
>The task force will be coordinate by myself and
>Andrea Solazzo, our CC intern.
>
>If you would like to be part of this Task
>Force please let us know and send us an email
>so we can start our first call as soon as possible.
>
>
>
>Just to brief you, below you will find a short
>synopsis based on a summary by the Women's
>Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
>on behalf of the Global Gender & Climate
>Alliance (GGCA) , on in the current situation
>of the gender approach and the Gender Equality
>Language in the Cancun Agreements.
>
>
>
> Gender is mentioned in the following sections of the Cancun Agreements:
>
>1. Preamble
>
>Noting recognizes that the adverse effects of
>climate change have a range of direct and
>indirect implications for the effective
>enjoyment of human rights and that the effects
>of climate change will be felt most acutely by
>those segments of the population that are
>already vulnerable owing to geography, gender,
>age, indigenous or minority status and disability;
>
>2. A shared vision for long--‐term cooperative action
>
>7. Recognizes the need to engage a broad range
>of stakeholders at global, regional, national
>and local levels, be they government, including
>subnational and local government, private
>business or civil society, including the youth
>and persons with disability, and that gender
>equality and the effective participation of
>women and indigenous peoples are important for
>effective action on all aspects of climate change;
>
>
>
>3. . Enhanced action on Adaptation
>
>12. Affirms that enhanced action on adaptation
>should be undertaken in accordance with the
>Convention; follow a country--‐driven,
>gender--‐sensitive, participatory and fully
>transparent approach, taking into consideration
>vulnerable groups, communities and ecosystems;
>and be based on and guided by the best available
>science, and as appropriate traditional
>knowledge; with a view to integrating adaptation
>into relevant social, economic and environmental
>policies and actions, where appropriate;
>
>4. . Enhanced action on Mitigation
>
>C. Policy approaches and positive incentives on
>issues relating to reducing emissions from
>deforestation and forest degradation in
>developing countries; and the role of
>conservation, sustainable management of forests
>and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries
>
>72. Requests developing country Parties, when
>developing and implementing their national
>strategies or action plan, to address, inter
>alia, drivers of deforestation and forest
>degradation, land tenure issues, forest
>governance issues, gender considerations and the
>safeguards identified in paragraph 2 of Annex 1
>to this decision, ensuring the full and
>effective participation of relevant
>stakeholders, inter alia, indigenous peoples and local communities;
>
>III. Enhanced action on Mitigation
>
>E. Economic and social consequences of response measures
>
>Affirming that responses to climate change
>should be coordinated with social and economic
>development in an integrated manner, with a view
>to avoiding adverse impacts on the latter,
>taking fully into account the legitimate
>priority needs of developing country Parties for
>the achievement of sustained economic growth and the eradication
>
>of poverty, and the consequences for vulnerable
>groups, in particular women and children,
>
>5. . Finance, technology and capacity--‐building
>
>C. Capacity--‐building
>
>130. Decides that capacity--‐building support
>to developing country Parties should be enhanced
>with a view to strengthening endogenous
>capacities at the subnational, national or
>regional levels, as appropriate, taking into
>account gender aspects, to contribute to the
>achievement of the full, effective and sustained
>implementation of the Convention, through, inter alia:
>
>Annex IV. Composition and mandate of the Technology Executive Committee
>
>3. Parties are encouraged to nominate senior
>experts with a view to achieving, within the
>membership of the Technology Executive
>Committee, an appropriate balance of technical,
>legal, policy, social development and financial
>expertise relevant to the development and
>transfer of technology for adaptation and
>mitigation, taking into account the need to
>achieve gender balance in accordance with decision 36/CP.7;
>
>
>
>Finally I would like to mention that there are
>several specialized terms and acronyms that are
>used in all the documents and that have been
>criticized because many people get them
>confused ( even governments) during the
>discussions. The same with a lot of concepts of
>which many are not familiar. Therefore during
>our virtual discussions this will be clarified
>so all can better understand these concepts
>and their different impacts on women and men .
>
>Best regards and hope you join us!
>
>Marcela and Andrea
>
>
>
>Marcela Ballara, FTF Alternate Coordinator and
>
>Gender and Climate Change Facilitator
>
>Andrea Solazzo, Loretto UN Office Volunteer and
>
>Gender and Climate Change intern FTF
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