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20 11, 2017

https://www.devex.com/news/cop23-endorses-mainstreaming-of-gender-in-climate-action-91584

COP23 Endorses Mainstreaming Of Gender In Climate Action

Karina2023-03-05T23:43:18-05:00Tags: Germany|

Negotiators at COP23 approved The Gender Action Plan (GAP), a long overdue agreement that more consciously includes women in all Paris Agreement processes. This plan will lead to the development of gender-responsive frameworks for climate action and an increase in women’s participation, capacity building, and knowledge-sharing in decision-making spaces. Some women have raised concerns about the lack of funding that has been allocated for the work the plan requires. Still, the GAP is a crucial step in the right direction toward ensuring gender equity in climate action. Photo credit: UNFCCC / CC BY-NC-SA

1 08, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBYHou5GlJU

Ende Gelände Movement – Introducing Antje

Karina2017-11-01T03:44:46-04:00Tags: Germany|

Antje Grothus, a resident of Germany's Rhineland, is standing up against the extraction of fossil fuels. In this video she explains the local resistance to extraction of coal in the lignite coalfields of the Rhineland in anticipation of the Ende Gelände mass civil disobedience action. Photo credit: 350.org

1 08, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgtnkuA7BiE

Ende Gelände Movement – Introducing Fania

Karina2017-11-01T03:43:01-04:00Tags: Germany|

Fania Noël was of over 1000 people from all over Europe who traveled to Germany's Rhineland for an action to draw attention to the in solidarity with those fighting to keep coal in the ground and protect the climate. Noël mobilized grassroots constituents to attend the COP21 climate talks. Photo credit: 350.org

26 10, 2011

https://unhabitat.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/GRHS2011ThematicStudyGender.pdf

Gender, Cities And Climate Change

Karina2017-10-26T00:29:54-04:00Tags: Germany|

GenderCC Women for Climate Justice co-founder, board member and independent researcher Gotelind Alber has focused much of her work on gender and climate justice. Her handbook Gender, Cities and Climate Change provides an outstanding framework for understanding how gender equality is fundamental to urbanization during climate change. The feminization of urban poverty and the disproportionate impact of climate change on women in urban areas are explained in full within this report.

1 01, 2011

http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/ursula-sladek/

Ursula Sladek: Resisting Nuclear Energy in Germany

Karina2017-10-22T00:13:32-04:00Tags: Germany|

A 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize recipient, Ursula Sladek is the founder and president of Schönau Power Supply (EWS), a position from which she fights nuclear energy dependence and promotes renewable energy and energy efficiency in the Black Forest region and across Germany. Sladek established Germany’s first renewable energy co-op and led a campaign to control the Schönau grid in response to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster’s lasting impacts on human and environmental health and the barriers to public input on utility energy supply. Her company now serves over 100,000 customers in Germany and continues to invest in safe, reliable, clean energy and local energy co-ops. Photo credit: Goldman Environmental Prize