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Feminist Approach Key to Just Energy Transition in Asia — Coalition

Karina2024-09-13T15:22:29-04:00Tags: Asia|

The Asia Feminist Coalition calls for a feminist approach to energy transitions in Asia, aiming for a just shift to clean energy that tackles historical and current gender inequalities. This involves empowering women and integrating them into the renewable energy sector, while also overhauling economic, social, and political systems to combat systemic inequities. Promoting small-scale, locally owned, and gender-representative energy systems, upskilling women for participation in male-dominated pathways, and implementing gender-responsive policy frameworks are crucial. Ensuring women's control over natural resources and protecting community rights from large-scale clean energy projects are also key priorities. The coalition advocates for economies prioritizing state-led redistribution and increased international climate finance, with a focus on gender equality and debt cancellation for climate-vulnerable countries in Asia. These efforts aim to achieve a just feminist energy transition, fostering a more equitable and sustainable future in the region.

Statement of Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact

Karina2023-11-28T17:07:55-05:00Tags: Myanmar, Asia, Burma|

In this short video from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Naw Ei Ei Min, a Karen Indigenous woman from Myanmar, speaks about the importance Indigenous women hold in the fight to end hunger and malnutrition. She describes how Indigenous women hold traditional knowledge, are protectors of Native seeds, and contribute to sustainable livelihoods, yet remain invisible, with their rights going unrecognized and unprotected. Min says if the 2030 agenda is achieved, it will only be possible through the empowerment of Indigenous women and addressing their needs through policies that are gender sensitive and culturally appropriate.