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1 Dec 2015

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WEDO (Women’s Environment & Development Organization)

Assemblée National Event on the Fight Against Climate Change: Women on the Frontlines

Eleanor Blomstrom, from WEDO [Women’s Environment & Development Organization]'s Bridget Burns, and Usha Nair, representing the Women and Gender Constituency, discussed the social and gender dimensions of climate change and the solutions that women bring to COP and on the ground. Eleanor joined a panel moderated by the Chair of the Women’s Group at the National Assembly, Mrs. Catherine Coutelle…She zeroed in on the demands of the Women and Gender Constituency such as keeping warming under 1.5 degrees and ensuring a guiding mandate for gender equality and human rights in the agreement, as well as those that are most applicable to developed countries in leading on climate change action: committing to their urgent and fair emissions reductions, activating financing…transfer of technology that is…sustainable and environmentally and socially sound…Eleanor included a focus on the need for climate justice in order to address the inequities and inequalities caused and deepened as a result of climate change…

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