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Gracias Marcela. <br>
Iliana <br><br>
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Dear Friends of the FTF,<br><br>
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).
<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
<b>The idea is that the FTF on CC meet virtually
every four week to discuss among others issues: </b> <br><br>
1. How to strategize and lobby the country of the participants
to make CC National programs of Actions (NAPA) to
include womens concerns;<br><br>
2. Develop activities to support women in the adaptation and mitigation
planned activities; <br><br>
3. Organize actions to highlight women's situation , especially in
coordination with important days such as 8 March, 15
October etc.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
These are only some ideas and others are very much welcome.<br><br>
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).<br><br>
The task force will be coordinate by myself and Andrea Solazzo, our CC
intern. <br><br>
<b>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.<br>
</b><br>
<br><br>
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<b> </b>of the gender approach and the
Gender Equality Language in the Cancun Agreements.<br><br>
<br><br>
<b> Gender is mentioned in the following sections of the Cancun
Agreements:<br>
</b><br>
<b>1. <i>Preamble<br>
</i></b><br>
<i>Noting </i>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, <b>gender</b>, age, indigenous or minority status and
disability;<br><br>
<b>2. A shared vision for long--‐term cooperative action<br>
</b><br>
7. <i>Recognizes </i>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
<b>gender equality </b>and the <b>effective participation of women
</b>and indigenous peoples are important for effective action on all
aspects of climate change;<br><br>
<br><br>
<b>3. . Enhanced action on Adaptation<br>
</b><br>
<i>12. Affirms </i>that enhanced action on adaptation should be
undertaken in accordance with the Convention; follow a
country--‐driven, <b>gender--‐sensitive</b>, 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;<br><br>
<b>4. . Enhanced action on Mitigation<br>
</b><br>
<b>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<br>
</b><br>
72. <i>Requests </i>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, <b>gender considerations </b>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;<br><br>
<b>III. Enhanced action on Mitigation<br>
</b><br>
<b>E. Economic and social consequences of response measures<br>
</b><br>
<i>Affirming </i>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<br><br>
of poverty, and the <b>consequences for vulnerable groups, in particular
women </b>and children,<br><br>
<b>5. . Finance, technology and capacity--‐building<br>
</b><br>
<b>C. Capacity--‐building<br>
</b><br>
130. <i>Decides </i>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, <b>taking into</b> <b>account gender aspects</b>, to
contribute to the achievement of the full, effective and sustained
implementation of the Convention, through, inter alia:<br><br>
<b>Annex IV</b>. <b>Composition and mandate of the Technology Executive
Committee<br>
</b><br>
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 <b>need
to achieve gender balance in accordance with decision
36/CP.7</b>;<br><br>
<br><br>
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 .<br><br>
Best regards and hope you join us!<br><br>
Marcela and Andrea<br><br>
<br><br>
Marcela Ballara, FTF Alternate Coordinator and <br><br>
Gender and Climate Change Facilitator<br><br>
Andrea Solazzo, Loretto UN Office Volunteer and<br><br>
Gender and Climate Change intern FTF<br>
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