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Declaration on Climate Change and Gender Equality

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:49:00 GMT

Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
Council of Women World Leaders (CWWL)
Heinrich Böll Foundation
The following recommendations in the area of climate change and gender equality were developed on the occasion of the UN Secretary General's High-Level Climate Change Event and the High-Level Roundtable "How a Changing Climate Impacts Women" organized by the partners above.^/1
September 2007

The UN Secretary-General and governments should send a strong message to this year's UNFCCC COP-13 in Bali that gender equality is to be integrated as a crosscutting issue in the negotiations and debates and that women's equal participation must be ensured. Governments should draw on the innumerable global agreements that relate directly or indirectly to gender equality and climate change^/2, as well as gender expertise within the UN system and at the national level.
Given that women's knowledge and participation has been critical to the survival of entire communities in disaster situations, governments should take advantage of women's specialized skills in various aspects of their livelihood and natural resource management strategies that lend themselves to mitigation and adaptation.
Since climate change disproportionately affects poor women, governments should analyze and identify gender-specific impacts and protection measures related to floods, droughts, heat waves, diseases, and other environmental changes and disasters. The global community should prioritize reducing the high levels of female mortality rates resulting from climate-induced disasters and livelihood changes.
Given the vulnerability of the poor, and particularly women, to climate change, adequate funds must be allocated by Annex I countries to help these groups adapt to the impacts.
Practical tools should be developed that allow governments and institutions to incorporate gender equality in climate change initiatives.
Governments at national and local levels should develop strategies to enhance women's access to and control over natural resources, in order to reduce poverty, protect environmental resources, and ensure that women and poor communities can better cope with climate change.
Governments and institutions should enhance opportunities for education and training in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Capacity building and technology transfer measures should draw on priorities put forward by women and poor communities.
Women's participation in climate change related debates and planning must be enhanced by tools and procedures that augment their capacity and sensitize decision- makers to the advantages of equal participation.
The UNFCCC should develop a gender strategy, invest in gender-specific climate change research, and establish a system for the use of gender-sensitive indicators and criteria for governments to use in national reporting to the UNFCCC Secretariat, adaptation planning, or projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
Market-based approaches to curbing climate change, such as the Clean Development Mechanism, should be made accessible to both women and men and ensure equitable benefits, considering that women and men do not have equal access to natural resources such as water and energy, land titles, credit, or information. In particular, the CDM should fund projects that make renewable energy technologies more available to women and meet their household needs.
The gendered impacts of biofuels and nuclear energy as a solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions should be assessed, in cooperation with gender experts and women's organizations.
Since the UNFCCC emerged from UNCED, which outlines nine major groups that are essential to sustainable development, women and all major groups should be included as official focal points in the UNFCCC.

1/ These recommendations also draw on policy recommendations developed by the UNFCCC women's caucus and the CSD Women's Major Group.

2/ Chapter 24 of Agenda 21 (UNCED 1992); Johannesburg Plan of Action (WSSD 2002); Paragraph K of the Beijing Platform for Action (4th World Conference on Women 1995); World Conference on Human Rights (1993); International Conference on Population and Development (1994); World Summit for Social Development (1995); Millennium Declaration (2000); Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979); Convention on Biodiversity (1992); Convention to Combat Desertification (1994); Ministerial Declaration of the 3rd World Water Forum (2003); Children's World Summit (1990); Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (1996); World Summit on Food (1996); Hyogo Framework for Action (UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction 2005)

For more information, contact: Rebecca Pearl, WEDO - rebecca@wedo.org or 212-973-0325 More information: www.wedo.org (sustainable development section)

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Sustainable Development

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:02:00 GMT

"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts:
the concept of 'needs', in particular the essential needs of the world's poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and
the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment's ability to meet present and future needs."
From Our Common Future: Chapter 2: Towards Sustainable Development

It was Our Common Future - formally known as the Report of the World Commission on Environment & Development, and also known as the Brundtland Report after the Chair of the Commission, Gro Harlem Brundtland - that put the concept of sustainable development on the global agenda and called for a global transition to a sustainable path for economic and social development. Our Common Future broke new ground in several key areas:

it brought into focus the extent of the interrelationships between economic development and the natural environment and the need to adopt a holistic perspective;
it emphasized the critical importance of the participation of all major groups in society into deliberations on policies and the implementation of sustainable development;
it articulated the critical need for a global transition to a new model of economic development and the transition to a sustainable development path.

"The Interlocking Crises
Until recently, the planet was a large world in which human activities and their effects were neatly compartmentalized within nations, within sectors (energy, agriculture, trade), and within broad areas of concern (environment, economics, social). These compartments have begun to dissolve. This applies in particular to the various global 'crises' that have seized public concern, particularly over the past decade. These are not separate crises: an environmental crisis, a development crisis, an energy crisis. They are all one."
From Our Common Future, From One Earth to One World

Our Common Future served as a key foundation for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - also known as the Earth Summit - that was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 1992, and that led to the adoption of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Agenda 21, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Statement of Forest Principles as well as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Since the Earth Summit, the concept and vision of sustainable development has come to play a central role in both international negotiations and in the development and implementation of national and local policies and practices relating to economic and social development and to the environment.

Convention on Biological Diversity

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:01:00 GMT

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Information and Communications Sub-Committee

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:36:00 GMT

The principal focus of the Information and Communications Sub-Committee of the NGO Committee on Education has been the development and implementation of a Creative Commons, Free and Open Source collaborative learning framework designed to mobilize the powers and freedoms of an evolving knowledge-based universe

Membership

Chair

Robert Pollard, Information Habitat: Where Information Lives

Members

Daphne Cohen, International Humanist and Ethical Union
Joe Friendly, Truth for a Change
Avy Gonzales, Tutor.com
Judith Lantigua, Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
Kathleen Quain, Foundation for Health and the Environment
Charles Vasquez, Pace University

Ex-officio Members

Faye Feller, National Association of Women for the Arts
Diane Paravazian, World Association of Girl Guides & Girl Scouts

Strategic Partners

Dolly Nielsen, Metro City Media
Marc Wishengrad, Healing World Foundation

Senior Advisors

Barbara Ann O'Leary, Authenticity
Anthony Judge, Union of International Associations (retired)

Web sites

NGO Committee on Education - www.ngo-education.net/

Education, Youth & Technology for Sustainable Development - www.ngo-education.net/workshop/

UN Documents Cooperation Circles: Gathering a Body of Global Agreements - www.un-documents.net/

Our Common Future - www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm

Climate Change 2.0 - www.climate-change-two.net/

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom - www.climate-change-two.net/wealth-of-networks/
Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review - www.climate-change-two.net/stern-review/
Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble: Plan B 2.1 (beta) - www.climate-change-two.net/plan-b/
Climate Change Summer - www.climate-change-summer.net/
Peace Caucus: The Wild Cards in Climate Change - www.peacecaucus.net/

TiddlyWikiPerfect: An emerging hybrid information species - www.tiddlywikiperfect.net/
Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence - www.gandhi-king-season.net/
Seasons of Peace Cooperation Circles - www.seasons-of-peace.net/
Twin Light & Colour Cubes - www.peace-cubes.net/

Conference Of NGOs

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:34:00 GMT

CONGO - the Conference Of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations - is an independent, international, not-for-profit membership association of nongovernmental organizations that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and decisions. CONGO is most active in the major UN centers of New York, Geneva, and Vienna, but extends its work to all regions of the world. In 2002. CONGO became accredited in its own right as an NGO in General Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

www.ngocongo.org/

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Templates for Light & Colour Cubes

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:25:00 GMT

NGO Committee on Education

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:47:00 GMT

The NGO Committee on Education is a New York-based Substantive Committee of CONGO - the Conference Of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations - and was founded in November 2000.

The Committee normally holds its meetings on the third Thursday of each month between September and June. Please contact the Co-Chairs at co-chairs@ngo-education.net, or use the contact form if you would like to receive information on upcoming meetings, and/or to be added to the email list for the Committee.

The NGO Committee on Education has made a priority commitment to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) throughout the Decade. This commitment was launched with our co-sponsorship of a workshop on Education, Youth & Technology for Sustainable Development at the 59th Annual DPI/NGO Conference on September 9, 2007. For more details on the workshop, please visit http://www.ngo-education.net/workshop

Meetings
By-laws
Executive Committee
Information and Communications Sub-Committee

Web sites

Education, Youth & Technology for Sustainable Development - www.ngo-education.net/workshop/
UN Documents Cooperation Circles: Gathering a Body of Global Agreements - www.un-documents.net
Climate Change 2.0 - www.climate-change-two.net/
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom - www.climate-change-two.net/wealth-of-networks
Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review - www.climate-change-two.net/stern-review/
Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble: Plan B 3.0 (beta) - www.climate-change-two.net/plan-b/
TiddlyWikiPerfect: An emerging hybrid information species - www.tiddlywikiperfect.net/

E-mail lists

ngo-education@googlegroups.com

UN Climate Change Conference in Bali

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:36:00 GMT

http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_13/items/4049.php

NGO/DPI Executive Committee

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:35:00 GMT

http://www.ngodpiexecom.org/

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High-Level Event of Climate Change, September 24, 2007

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:55:00 GMT

The Future in our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change

September 24, 2007
http://www.un.org/climatechange/2007highlevel/

Climate Change 2.0

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:36:00 GMT

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Physicist & Nobel Laureate

Climate Change 2.0 is being developed from a vision of a collaborative application of Web 2.0 methodologies to the global climate change crisis and incorporating a transition to an Open Source, Creative Commons climate. Climate Change 2.0 is based on the recognition of the vital contribution that the combination of the economics of information and information and communications technologies (ICT) can contribute - and already are contributing - to addressing what is increasingly recognized as the greatest challenges to a sustainable common future, both through the power of the technologies and through the progressive discovery and realization of the fundamental properties and nature of a digital knowledge-based universe and the accompanying profound freedoms and transformation of human consciousness and the emergence of digitally-connected global civil society that has been growing rapidly since the early stages of preparations for the 1992 Earth Summit - of which the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was a key component.

"The Interlocking Crises
Until recently, the planet was a large world in which human activities and their effects were neatly compartmentalized within nations, within sectors (energy, agriculture, trade), and within broad areas of concern (environment, economics, social). These compartments have begun to dissolve. This applies in particular to the various global 'crises' that have seized public concern, particularly over the past decade. These are not separate crises: an environmental crisis, a development crisis, an energy crisis. They are all one."
Our Common Future, From One Earth to One World

Climate Change 2.0 - Elements

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:20:00 GMT

A number of elements have been developed under the auspices of Climate Change 2.0, with an initial focus on the development of an online platform for the September 2007 60th Annual DPI/NGO Conference to be held at UN Headquarters on the theme "Climate Change: How It Impacts Us All", and in the broader context of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, 2005-2014, and related international decades.

The DPI/NGO Climate Change Conference offers a unique opportunity for a demonstration project of Climate Change 2.0 as it will be the last to be held at the United Nations Headquarters before major renovations begin, and there is strong interest in developing a prototype interactive online framework that would provide for real-time participation in the Conference, for this Conference, and as a model to be used for future Annual DPI/NGO Conferences.

Among the elements that are under development are the following:

TiddlyWiki sites

Climate Change 2.0
www.climate-change-two.net/

Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
www.climate-change-two.net/ar4-wg2-spm
Peace Caucus: The Wild Cards in Climate Change
www.peacecaucus.net

NGO Committee on Education
www.ngo-education.net/

Education, Youth & Technology for Sustainable Development
www.ngo-education.net/workshop/

TiddlyWikiPerfect sites

TiddlyWikiPerfect: An emerging hybrid information species
www.tiddlywikiperfect.net/

Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble: Plan B 2.1 (beta)
www.climate-change-two.net/plan-b/
Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review
www.climate-change-two.net/stern-review/
TiddlyWikiPerfect sites under development
Confronting Climate Change

Silken Valleys - Digital relief post-Kashmir earthquake
DataPerfect Manual
Information Habitat 2.0

"Normal" - HTML - web sites

UN Documents Cooperation Circles: Gathering a Body of Global Agreements
www.un-documents.net/

Our Common Future
www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
www.climate-change-two.net/wealth-of-networks/

Related Google Groups

Other sites

The Wealth of Networks wiki notes
www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks
Information Ecologist @ Blue Dot
bluedot.us/users/Information-Ecologist - social bookmarking
H2O Playlist

United Nation Climate Change Portal

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:25:00 GMT

http://www.un.org/climatechange

Information Habitat: Where Information Lives

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:55:00 GMT

Information Habitat: Where Information Lives - an NGO in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council - was founded in May 1990 in the context of preparations for the 1992 Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Information Habitat has focused on the transformative opportunities of information and communications technology (ICT) in support of broad-based participation of NGOs in the work of the United Nations, and the critical role of ICT in offering a path towards sustainable development.

For more information on Information Habitat, visit http://www.information-habitat.net

UN Documents Cooperation Circles: Gathering a Body of Global Agreements

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:36:00 GMT

UN Documents Cooperation Circles: Gathering a Body of Global Agreements, developed by the Information and Communications Sub-Committee of the NGO Committee on Education, is a unique hyperlinked collection of more than five hundred key United Nations documents relating to sustainable development, education, human rights, peace, etc., including the agreements from most of the major global conferences organized by the United Nations and a significant number of important conventions / treaties. A significant number of these documents have only previously been available as scanned images - where their contents were mostly generally inaccessible to Internet search engines and from which it was not possible to copy selected text - and have been converted using Optical Character Recognition software.

The documents have been converted into a simple HTML format, imported into a DataPerfect database, and re-generated in a consistent common format. A simple, consistent system of file names for documents with UN document codes has been adopted, making it easy to reference the documents - e.g. the URL for General Assembly Resolution A/RES/60/1 - the 2005 World Summit Outcome is www.un-documents.net/a60r1.htm. For consistency and to simplify the recognition and understanding, a revised document code has been adopted for General Assembly resolutions for the first thirty Sessions of the General Assembly, for which Roman numerals have historically been used to identify the session; thus the GA resolution 2625 (XXV) on the.Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations has been given the document code A/RES/25/2625 instead of A/RES/2625(XXV) and a corresponding URL of www.un-documents.net/a25r2625.htm.

In the case of many of the longer documents in the collection, a Table of Contents, with links to the different sections has been added. In the case of conventions, "anchors" have been added to each article of the convention. This makes it possible to create links directly to relevant sections in a document. For the General Assembly documents. the number of the agenda item has been recorded, and the task of adding the description of the agenda items has been partially implemented.

The documents in the collection have been classified with key words, to make it easier to find related documents; there remains considerable need for additional key words, and for elaboration of the organization and structure of the key words. The inclusion of hyperlinks to references cited in documents makes it possible to a} generate a table to links for each document, and b) to create a listing of documents that include a reference to the documents. The generation of web pages with the backward and forward reference tables remains as a future enhancement; a sample document, links for the 2005 World Summit Outcome is available at www.un-documents.net/links/a60r1.htm

The Official Records of the General Assembly corresponding to the resolutions have also been added to the collection and uploaded;the Official Records are a very valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of the United Nations; these records are only available as scanned pdf files; in most cases, many of the pages are skewed in the vopies on the Official Documents of the United Nations - documents.un.org - some of the files of the official records have been de-skewed - with ReadIris Pro, an excellent OCR package, and blank pages have been removed.

The UN Documents web site has been submitted to the major search engines, with the result that some of the documents are now fairly close to the top of Google search results for their title and a Google site search offers a quick way to find relevant documents in the collection.

NGO Committee on Education

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Declaration on Climate Change and Gender Equality

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Sustainable Development

Convention on Biological Diversity

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High-Level Event of Climate Change, September 24, 2007

The Future in our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change

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Climate Change 2.0 - Elements

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