Breakthrough - Women & Climate Change

Discussion Highlights

•Mitigation - cut emissions and take responsibility

•Stories from Oz, Solomons, Tibet/India, Samoa, Myanmar

•Government policies & practice – reactive and sometimes in collusion with private sector/industry polluters

•Private sector impacts on environment – e.g. logging, mining

•Land rights and ownership – flairs up in emergencies

•Knowledge and understanding of women about the science

•Counter campaign and addressing that

•Melting ice in Tibet

•Plans for surviving emergencies & warning systems

Priorities for Action

•Gender and climate change education for faith leaders

•Religious practice supporting ecological consciousness

•Education for women and young people on the science and how to protect themselves

•Women’s voice in decisions made in government and private sector

•Collect information around land ownership including gender

•Advocacy around climate change & social justice

•Acknowledge and invest in indigenous women’s knowledge

•Analysis of politics & power & how to influence

Working Together

•Recognise and strengthen the good existing work

•Keep it achievable, realistic & motivating

•Develop new and link existing networks at sub-regional and global levels (e.g. One Million Women and WEDO and their Gender and Climate Change Coalition)

•Capturing stories in different ways (electronic and other) and sharing with other communities and groups

•Local traditional/indigenous knowledge based organisations working together with other groups and organisations

•Interfaith dialogue about climate change to prepare for and respond to climate change