notes for our intervention

[Sascha Gabizon]

Curb the very unsustainable brown economy activites, uranium mining, nuclear industry, oil industry,

 

 

 

It is clear that achieving the Millennium Development Goals and responding effectively to climate change threats cannot be accomplished without greater social equity and engagement of women, including in particular Indigenous women, in sustainable initiatives to promote food sovereignty, energy sovereignty, forest and landscape restoration and new socially and environmentally sustainable business enterprises[S1]  , as farmers, land managers, caretakers, community leaders, designers, and entrepreneurs[S2] . Since the ability of women to start or expand such initiatives[S3]  is often constrained by legal and social barriers that limit their social and political status and influence, property rights, land tenure and access to credit, overall government policies are needed that open up new[S4]  opportunities for women.

 

 

We applaud the recommendation that governments and other organizations undertake gender assessments of all their development strategies and climate change responses in order to evaluate the potential differences in the impacts of their actions on women and men, and monitor progress using gender-sensitive economic and social indicators.

 

 

B. Green economy

 

 

It has been noted that sustainability depends on the ability  to make environmentally-friendly technology more widely available. We would like to expand on this idea by also emphasizing the need for women-friendly technologies - ones that can free up women’s time through motorized power, expand their access to communications and information, and provide new opportunities for sustainable livelihoods and improved food production.

 

Climate-related funds and mechanisms and new financing and credit facilities dedicated to women’s social and economic initiatives to promote sustainability, including socially and environmentally sustainable[S6]  business enterprises[S7] , would benefit women  - and their families and communities - while at the same time reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preserving critical ecosystems and biodiversity.

 

In order to ensure that financing for sustainable development, technology transfer, and climate mitigation and adaptation, is women-friendly, we recommend that gender balance should be required on all management boards, expert panels and advisory groups, and that gender analysis should be conducted to ensure equal access to benefits and opportunities for men and women.

    

 

  For women, in particular, it is important, we set up networks of NGO women’s groups, can be a pool, in consensus, a business women network, non-profit, or profit.

 

 

 

B. Green economy

 

Much progress has been made recently in terms of introducing a gender perspective into the international climate change discussions. At COP 16 in Cancun, governments specifically acknowledged that gender equality and the effective participation of women are important for effective action on all aspects of climate change in their shared vision for long-term cooperation, and affirmed that adaptation actions should follow a gender-sensitive, participatory and fully transparent approach.

 

Unfortunately, increased energy access was not identified as one of the MDGs, and progress on poverty reduction targets has in many cases also been hindered by lack of adequate investments in expanding energy access.

 

It has been noted that sustainability depends on the ability to mobilize green financing to make environmentally-friendly technology more widely available. We would like to expand on this idea by also emphasizing the need for women-friendly technologies - ones that can free up women’s time through motorized power, expand their access to communications and information, and provide new opportunities for sustainable livelihoods and improved food production.

 

New financing and credit facilities dedicated to women’s green business enterprises, and climate-related funds and mechanisms, would benefit women  - and their families and communities - while at the same time reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preserving critical ecosystems and biodiversity.

 

World Bank. Is it realistic. That women who are farming. Have access to credit. Agriculture.

 

South Africa, violence against women as a motor for development.

 

Capacity building and education for women to engage in green economy.

It is a responsibility of the government, that not just girls, but also children, have education on sustainable development.

 

Laws, women to access that system, make sure they know about it and can use. Ask Anita.

 

Green Economy road map.

 

In order to ensure that financing for sustainable development, technology transfer, and climate mitigation and adaptation, is women-friendly, we recommend that gender balance should be required on all management boards, expert panels and advisory groups, and that gender analysis should be conducted to ensure equal access to benefits and opportunities for men and women.

 

A green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty reduction requires a high level {equal} engagement of women, and women contributing at their full capacity. Empowerment, training and access to resources and decision making are crucial. To reach their full capacity within the economy, women must have choice and access to family planning resources in order to meet her family’s needs. At the same time, this green economy is one that needs to facilitate {offer} gender equitable childcare solutions to ensure all family members are adequately cared for, leading to a just future in which girls and boys, women and men have space/time/opportunity to innovate, lead, teach and drive sustainable development.

    

In the fields,

 

 It is clear that achieving the Millennium Development Goals and responding effectively to climate change threats cannot be accomplished without greater social equity and engagement of women in new business enterprises and sustainable energy initiatives, as designers, managers, entrepreneurs and leaders. Since the ability of women to start or expand businesses is often constrained by legal and social barriers that limit their property rights, land tenure and access to credit, overall government policies are needed that open up new economic opportunities for women.

 

 

We applaud the recommendation that governments and other organizations undertake gender assessments of all their development strategies and climate change responses in order to evaluate the potential differences in the impacts of their actions on women and men, and monitor progress using gender-sensitive economic and social indicators.

 

Land tenure for women

We produce 80% , women own 1% of the land

 

Protection of children, dangerous pesticides

 

Child trafficking

 

Capacity building for women , to participate in ge

 

When measure progress, include sex diss data, in indicators,

 

Gender specific language,

 

How many women are in those areas

 

Women should be part of the green economy, set targets for that

 

Women working in the fields, but also women in management, example of Norway and some other EU countries,

 

More women actively involved in policy making,

 

Data: porductivey in companies, profitability, when women are involved, WB, show what happens ,

 

No one responded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 [S1]I think we need a more coherent vision on social and environmental sustainability. The paragraph gives a very urban and quite Northern perspective on sustainable development. Most women in this world are not business managers but, often poor, farmers. So I suggested some changes to make sure the proposals include a much broader set of initiatives instead of just business enterprises.

 [S2]The list was a bit unlogical

 [S3]Just a broader term, it includes businesses

 [S4]I think it is broader than just economic

 [S5]The original text totally ignored the problems with IPRs!!!!

 [S6]The term green is very undefined and I seriously object to it

 [S7]Ibid. if this is an intervention on behalf of all women we should broaden this to include rural women’s perspectives. They are still the majority

On 10.01.2011, at 20:03, Ceci King wrote:

The statement was made during:

Statement on behalf of the Group of G77 and China

by Second Secretary Najla Abdelrahman

, Permanent Mission

of the Republic of the Sudan to the United Nations

, on agenda item 62:

Advancement of women

, in the Third Committee

of the General Assembly

,

(New York

, 12 October 2009)

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Sascha Gabizon <sascha....@wecf.eu> wrote:

January 10, 2010

 

 

Women’s Major Group interventions

at the Rio+20 Intersessional Meeting January 10-11

 

 

 

Thank you chair,

 

I speak on behalf of the women’s major group, my name is Gail Karlsson of ENERGIA

 

- Renewed committment

Since Rio 1992 we have made great progress in the thematic areas, for example the Climate Convention. But it is by far not enough. The brown economy is still the norm, women worldwide suffer from loss of natural resources and pollution of the environment, our children’s children will inherit an un-livable world if we do not come with a new institutional framework which can protect our global commons.

 

Rio 2012 needs to bring renewed commitment in filling the gaps identified, particularly in the area of the governance of sustainable development. In particular we would need a structure to deal with complaints by communities effected by unsustainable activities. We also can learn from the UNECE Aarhus Convention which has implemented the Rio principle 10 into a legally binding mechanism for access to information, justice and public participation.

 

- Success factors and Challenges

 

The MDG Review Summit held in September 2010 recognized the importance of investing in expanded opportunities for women and girls, and improving access to energy. Government policies, legislation and investments in support of energy can boost women’s opportunities for economic empowerment and their contributions to national sustainable development priorities.

 

However it also found that there has been slow progress in advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women.

 

 

- Expected outcomes

We call on governments to contribute at highest level to a successful UNCSD Rio 2012.

We believe that real commitment has expressed itself by legally binding measures, for example by renewable energy laws, by clear targets, and measurable verifiable implementation plans.

Outcomes of Rio 2012 should include:

-       a negotiated ministerial/heads of state declaration

-       a negotiated road map on the green and social economy, with measurable and verifiable targets, indicators and timeline

-       a new structure or coordination system for international governance of sustainable development  - which recognizes the essential role of women in sustainable development

-       flagship initiatives by civil society and governments

 

 

Referring to the Synthesis Report on Best Practices and Lessons Learned on the Objectives and Themes of the Conference prepared by UN DESA

www.uncsd2012.org/files/intersessional/Synthesis-Report-Final.pdf

 

 

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