COP24: women demand a gender-just transition
Follow WECF's activities around UN's climate change conference in Katowice, Poland, in December 2018
| Countries: | Worldwide |
| Donors: | AFD; CTCN; Raja Foundation; GIZ; Europeaid |
| Partners: | Women & Gender Constituency |
| Issues: | Climate & Energy; Gender & Rights |
| Duration: | 05/2018 - 12/2018 |
With a series of events, WECF raises awareness before, during and after this year’s UN conference on climate change (COP 24). We will together with our partners of the Women & Gender Constituency (WGC), a network with official observer status which can participate in the negotiations, through advocacy and campaigning demand the full realisation of women’s rights and gender equality within all UNFCCC processes.
Our demand to decision-makers:
Important dates
- 2 December - Women & Gender Constituency's strategy meeting
- 3-14 December - Climate negotiations
- 8 December - feminist block at the climate march in Katowice
- 11 December - UNFCCC's Gender Day
Tuesday 4 December
Bund workshop: community energy for ambitious NDCs
9:30-16:30 at Q hotel Plus Katowice
With experts from a wide variety of fields, we will discuss various aspects of citizen energy - from gender equality to communication, from co-benefits to good practice. The aim of thw workshop is to develop recommendations and demands on how citizen energy can be integrated into national climate plans.
Monday 10 December
Gender Just Climate Solutions Award Ceremony
13:00-15:00 at Capacity building RYSY in meeting room 24, Area E
Join us for the Women Gender Constituency (WGC) and the Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN) at the 2018 Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards Ceremony. This high level event will showcase and reward gender just climate actions that are implemented on all continents and can be scaled up to attain a significant impact. With the Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards, we aim at inspiring world leaders and key decision makers to implement more effective and transformative climate policies.
Tuesday 11 December
Partnerhip technology needs assessment & gender workshop, hosted by CTCN & UNEP DTU
08:00-09:30 at Monopol Hotel (Dworcowa 5, 44-100 Katowice, Poland)
This workshop is held within the framwork of the Gender Action Plan. During the workshop, developed in collaboration with the Women and Gender Constituency, participants will discuss experiences and identify key activities to strengthen gender considerations in TNAs, while highlighting opportunities for collaboration between governments including National Gender and Climate Change Focal Points, implementing entities, operating entities of the Financial Mechanism and non-state actor
Localisation of NDCs: lessons learned from non-state actors
11:00-13:30, venue to be confirmed
Gender Day market place
12:00-18:00 at the Climate Action Hub
Gender and climate financing: what progress, what ambitions?
14:00-15:30 at the French Pavillion
The aim will be to debate operational issues in order to fulfil gender and climate commitments, with prominent guests from the North and South, from institutions and civil society. Some of the main questions to be addressed will be: What solutions are being implemented by women to fight climate change and how are they supported? What is the status of gender integration in climate financing? What is the role of women in institutions and negotiations? How can financial mechanisms provide leverage in order to increase gender and climate co-benefits? How can grassroots organizations gain increased access to financing?
Wednesday 12 December
Mentoring workshop (only open to GJCS award winners), hosted by CTCN & WGC at 11:00-17:00
Part 1:
Thursday 13 December
Mentoring workshop (only open to GJCS award winners), hosted by CTCN & WGC
at 09:00-18:00
Part 2:
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Explanations
APA – Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) was established by the same decision to prepare for the entry into force of the Paris Agreement. Read more here: http://unfccc.int/bodies/apa/body/9399.php
COP – The Conference of Parties (COP) is the supreme decision-making body of the Convention. All States that are Parties to the Convention are represented at the COP, at which they review the implementation of the Convention and any other legal instruments that the COP adopts and take decisions necessary to promote the effective implementation of the Convention, including institutional and administrative arrangements. COP23 is the 23nd time the COP is convening. It is held in Bonn, it is hosted by the Fiji Presidency. Read more here: http://unfccc.int/bodies/body/6383.php
Gender Action Plan (GAP) - Decision 3/CP.23 established a gender action plan and also decided that the topic for the 2018 workshop would be based on activity E.1 of that action plan. The gender action plan invites Parties and observers oganizations to provide submissions on the topics set out in activity E.1. (Available here) Decision 21/CP.22 extends the Lima work plan on gender (LWPG) to COP 25 in 2019. In 2017, a gender action plan was developed by the SBI. The technical paper on achieving gender balance under UNFCCC is available here.
Intervention – is the opportunity where the civil society gets to intervene and add their recommendations during negotiations. Interventions are delivered by constituencies, meaning they are a collaborate effort written by loads of different civil society organisations (CSOs). WECF co-facilitates the Women & Gender Constituency which specifically looks at intersectionality, women's human rights, gender equality and climate change. Interventions are not always guaranteed to be heard; but CSOs can still influence their decision-makers by sending their recommendations to the UNFCCC secretariat who puts it on their website. It is up to negotiators/decision-makers to read the interventions, so it is not always guaranteed that the recommendations are taken into account.
Paris Agreement – The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the framework of the UNFCCC dealing with greenhouse gases emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance, and will be entered into force year 2020. Read more here: http://unfccc.int/paris_agreement/items/9485.php
SBSTA – The SBSTA is one of two permanent subsidiary bodies to the Convention established by the COP/CMP. It supports the work of the COP and the CMP through the provision of timely information and advice on scientific and technological matters as they relate to the Convention or its Kyoto Protocol. Key areas of work for the SBSTA are the impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change; emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries; promoting the development and transfer of environmentally-sound technologies; and conducting technical work to improve the guidelines for preparing and reviewing greenhouse gas emission inventories from Annex I Parties. The SBSTA carries out methodological work under the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol, and promotes collaboration in the field of research and systematic observation of the climate system. Read more here: http://unfccc.int/bodies/body/6399.php
SBI – The SBI is one of two permanent subsidiary bodies to the Convention established by the COP/CMP. It supports the work of the COP and the CMP through the assessment and review of the effective implementation of the Convention and its Kyoto Protocol. The SBI also advises the COP on budgetary and administrative matters. In 2013, the SBI had the challenging task of managing the shift in focus towards the MRV issues with the launch of the international assessment and review (IAR) and international consultations and analysis (ICA) in 2014, and work on nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs). Loss and damage and adaptation finance is another area where progress was made under the SBI by reaching an agreement on a loss and damage mechanism and pledging funds in the range of US$ 100 million to the adaptation fund. Read more here: http://unfccc.int/bodies/body/6406.php
UNFCCC – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); for a better overlook of the processes around the convention please see here http://bigpicture.unfccc.int/content/understanding-the-unfccc.html
