🪡 1/8: #COP27 live from the #BlueZone | #Gender Day continues with a high-level panel: Voice of Women Leaders in Climate Debates, Policies, Implementation, & Beyond. #TogetherForImplementation#JustAndAmtibious pic.twitter.com/ctVWGAfAnO
— Ministry of Environment – وزارة البيئة 🇪🇬 (@EGY_Environment) November 14, 2022
2/8: HE Dr Yasmine Fouad welcomes the #female panel & attendees with a call to action. “We need to look at how to enable & empower #women in the fight in #climatechange. We need to do that now at this #COP for implementation.#TogetherForImplementation#JustAndAmtibious pic.twitter.com/mgLArKzs1i
— Ministry of Environment – وزارة البيئة 🇪🇬 (@EGY_Environment) November 14, 2022
3/8: Ms Soipan Tuya, Kenya’s Minister of Environment says, “#Women know the issues & are the fastest responders. We are natural drivers. When we take the steering wheel, things will move.” Adding that women’s building women’s participation and capacity is needed. #COP27Gender pic.twitter.com/pZquetz9A9
— Ministry of Environment – وزارة البيئة 🇪🇬 (@EGY_Environment) November 14, 2022
4/8: Ms. Anne Songole, of FEMNET discusses the need to involve women in #NDC development and policy-making. “When we go back to our countries it is important that we ensure that participation is happening all the way from local level to the sub-national and national levels. pic.twitter.com/qCXhXEudVD
— Ministry of Environment – وزارة البيئة 🇪🇬 (@EGY_Environment) November 14, 2022
5/8: Ms. Elise Buckle, Co-founder of She Changes Climate explains, “In Rwanda, 61% of parliament are women, & they are adopting strong #climateaction policies. This is needed in companies. When women are on boards, we see better financial results & impacts on #climatechange.” pic.twitter.com/VfabYtp0bN
— Ministry of Environment – وزارة البيئة 🇪🇬 (@EGY_Environment) November 14, 2022
6/8: Ms Susan Gardner of UNEP calls for respecting local knowledge and more women in science & in education, adding #women are key actors in building community resilience. She warns, “when women lack resources, a voice, or freedom to move, we become trapped with high climate risk pic.twitter.com/kwEbg2ygA8
— Ministry of Environment – وزارة البيئة 🇪🇬 (@EGY_Environment) November 14, 2022
7/8: Elizabeth Walthuti of Green Generation adds that women are victims of climate change but will also be the ones to lead us out of it. Discussing inequalities she adds, “this gross injustice is precisely what young people around the world are mobilizing to fight against.” pic.twitter.com/Gs7bpjREIr
— Ministry of Environment – وزارة البيئة 🇪🇬 (@EGY_Environment) November 14, 2022
8/8: Dr. Yasmine Fouad closes the panel thanking the speakers for amplifying voices of local communities & inviting attendees to the #GreenZone, which mirrors the agenda of the #BlueZone, while capturing the voices of #humanity through engaging with #civilsociety stakeholders. pic.twitter.com/m5psaZyO2v
— Ministry of Environment – وزارة البيئة 🇪🇬 (@EGY_Environment) November 14, 2022
Did you ever wonder: who is the real victim of global warming?
I sure did.
And I assumed it was probably Johnathan Greenblatt of the ADL.
But it turns out it’s women.
Water and the effects of the climate crisis on water scarcity will come under scrutiny on Monday at the Cop27 UN climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh as it enters its second week.
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Gender also takes centre stage on Monday, with discussions on how women face particular problems when it comes to the climate crisis. Research has shown that women and girls face increased violence in areas affected by climate-related disasters, and that they are disadvantaged when it comes to crucial issues such as land rights, and receiving investment and aid.
Including women and girls is also vital to solving the problem. Mary Robinson, a former president of Ireland and twice a UN climate envoy, who arrived at Cop27 on Saturday and who was instrumental in ensuring previous Cops included a “gender plan” for the climate, has called the climate crisis “a man-made problem with a feminist solution”.
You heard right, folks: global warming is yet another one of the many problems in the world that was caused by men only to be solved by women.
I can’t tell you in my personal life how many times I’ve seen men cause problems, only for women to have to rush in and solve the problem.
We’ve especially seen a lot of situations where white men create a problem and black women have to come clean up the mess. Just check the #McDonalds tag on World Star HipHop.
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Canada will be contributing $500,000 to @IFDD_OIF to train francophone women climate negotiators, and $500,000 to @WEDO_worldwide to train women climate negotiators in English.— Environment Canada (@environmentca) November 14, 2022
Women continue to bear a disproportionate burden in many aspects of society, and when it comes to climate change, this is not the exception. Today is Gender Day at @COP27P , and we would like to seize the opportunity to highlight some worrying numbers: pic.twitter.com/VsWyid6gf7
— ClimateTrade (@ClimateTrade) November 14, 2022
Dear leaders @COP27P
Climate justice is about a future where the poorest and most marginalized people, particularly women & girls have improved their wellbeing significantly & can enjoy their human rights due to increased resilience to climate changehttps://t.co/EnyyxIlelV
— CARE Climate Change (@CAREClimate) November 14, 2022
On #GenderDay at #COP27, our Laura Lahti looks at women's critical role in dealing with #climatechange and examines progress on #genderequality commitments made at earlier COPs.
On @ESIAfrica here 👉https://t.co/A4DKX2uvFT#Gender #SustainableDevelopment pic.twitter.com/HNOgypWqCM
— Camco (@Camco_tweets) November 14, 2022