Climate change
Women are more often negatively impacted by climate change, women have different priorities for protecting the climate….
WMG @ UNEA statement at Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) Against Plastic Pollution
WMG @ UNEA Statement - Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) to Prepare for the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution Thank you, chair. I am going to speak in Spanish no [...]
Draft Short Report from Major Groups and Stakeholders from UNEA5
Last week, the Women's Major Group had a strong presence at the online consultations with Major Groups and other Stakeholders and the bureau of Member States for UNEA 5. Representing WMG, Isis Alvarez [...]
DRR 2019: Stakeholder Forum
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 13-17 May 2019. For more information, access here. [...]
NO to Nuclear as Climate Solution, YES to Renewables and People Powered Solutions
We, as representatives of civil society, send a clear message to you today upon conclusion of the Climate & SDGs Synergy Conference, that nuclear energy cannot be part of the just transition we [...]
HLPF 2018: Katia Araujo’s Review of the SDG 15
Insecure land rights for women and communities is also a key threat to forests and gender equality. Women own less than 20% of the world’s land and in more than half of all countries. Additionally [...]
HLPF 2018: Gertrude Kenyangi’s intervention as Lead Discussant on SGD 15
A policy is only as good as its implementation. It is important to ensure that policies translate into practice. The entire value chain, from the global to the national to the grassroots must be [...]
AHOEEG on Marine Litter and Micro-plastics 2018: Eugeniy Lobanov ‘s intervention at Item 6 Environmental, social and economic costs and benefits of different response options
"I came from the region of the Baltic Sea, which has been subjected to various contaminants for over a hundred years and is often referred to as the most polluted sea in the world". Eugeniy Lobano [...]
AHOEEG on Marine Litter and Micro-plastics 2018: Shahriar Hossain’s intervention at Item 5 National, regional and international response options, including action and innovative approaches, and voluntary and legally binding governance strategies and approaches
"We believe that our mind set should be changed and together we will achieve our common goal to #BEAT the PLASTIC POLLUTION at large". Shahriar Hossain (ESDO, Bangladesh) presented his combined st [...]
Save the date! “Adding up the odds – out of the ebox Approaches to Increasing Ambition and Action for Climate Justice”
Join IBON's Side event "Corporate Accountability International and the Sustainable Rural Development of Vietnam: adding up the odds – out of the ebox approaches to increasing ambition and action for [...]
HLPF 2017: Pam Rajput’s QA Response on “Science-Policy Interface and Emerging Issues”
"Public policy should be based on independent science, rather than ideology, on social, gender and environmental assessments, and include full participation in planning and decision making of dive [...]