Climate Change (UNFCCC)
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an outcome of the 1992 Earth Summit, when the Women’s Major Group was launched. Climate change is a clear symptom of the lack of progress on sustainable development in recent decades. At the 2015 climate conference (COP21) in Paris, governments came to a universal climate agreement that is meant to set a global action plan to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C, toward the goal of 1.5°C. The agreement is due to enter into force in 2020.
Global efforts to achieve sustainable development (in all its 3 dimensions of social, economic, environmental) must be taken together with global efforts to combat climate change. The Women’s Major Group for SD has always incorporated climate change into its advocacy and positions and will continue to do so as the 2 agreements are inextricably linked, particularly via Goal 13 of the SDGs.
The official space for women’s civil society at the UNFCCC is the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC), which played a critical role in pushing the Paris agreement to address gender equality, human rights and climate justice. To join the mailing list and learn more, visit the website.
UN Climate Change Conference: COP 23, Bonn
"The conference, officially referred as COP 23/ CMP 13/ CMA 1-2, will take place from 6-17 Nov 2017 in Bonn, Germany, hosted by the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFC [...]
HLPF 2017: Hema Wihongi’s QA Response on SDG14 “oceans, sea and marine resources”
"Women’s leadership must be prioritized in local, national, regional, and global discussions and decision making structures directing sustainable uses of ocean systems. Equitable political partici [...]
Women’s Major Group COP22 Summary
"Members of the Women’s Major Group were active in Marrakesh at COP22, working to implement climate commitments and to make linkages to the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. At [...]
COP 22: Tetet Lauron’s notes on Action, Action everywhere but nowhere
Expectations that this annual meeting of the world’s leaders will set the wheels into motion on the Paris Agreement (PA), last year’s landmark deal on climate do not seem likely as huge disagreemen [...]
COP 22 Side Event: Land Use and Climate Change: Corporations or Communities? Time to Choose
If you are in Marrakech at the COP 22, please join the Side Event hosted by Global Forest Coalition, Friends of the Siberian Forests, Movement Strategy Center and the Grassroots Global Justice &am [...]
COP 22 Marrakech, UN Climate Change Conference 2016
"The 22nd Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) will be held in Marrakech, November 7 to 18, 2016". Check out key gender events [...]
Women’s Major Group activity in Paris at COP21
Members of the Women Major Group were active in Paris at COP21, working for a just and binding climate agreement and to make linkages to the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. A [...]
Climate Justice: Why Women Must be Included
The new sustainable development agenda adopted by UN Member States last September seeks to end poverty, fight against inequalities and injustice, and address climate change. For Eleanor Blomstrom, [...]
Voices of Women and How Climate Change is Affecting them: Cop 21, Paris 2015
The ones from small submerged islands continue to return [to them]. They want to sink with the islands they say, and die in dignity. Why relocate? We have not contributed to what is happening. Hel [...]
