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Canadian International Development Agency
(CIDA). (n.d.). Gender Equality and Climate
Change: Why Consider Gender Equality When
Taking Action on Climate Change? Retrieved
from the World Wide Web from: http://www.
acdi-cida.gc.ca/INET/IMAGES.NSFvLUImages/
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Analyzes relations between gender equity and climate change concerning
the question: why consider gender equity when acting on climate change?
Deals with such essential matters as food security, hydraulic resources and
the effects of climate change on human health.
CAPWIP, ISDR, WEDO, GGCA, UNDP, UNEP,
IUCN, UNIFEM, ADB and IPU. (2008). Manila
Declaration for Global Action on Gender in
Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction.
Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and
Governance. Retrieved from the World Wide Web
from: http://www.capwip.org/3rdglobalcongress.
htm
The participants of the Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and
Governance, on Gender in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk
Reduction, gathered in Manila, Philippines, 19-22 October, 2008 to draft
a declaration to advocate for the inclusion of gender considerations in the
UNFCCC COP-14 (Poznan), COP-15 (Copenhagen), the Second Session of
the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction and beyond.
Dankelman, I. (2002). Climate Change:
Learning from Gender Analysis and Women’s
Experiences of Organizing for Sustainable
Development. In: Gender & Development, Vol.
10, pp. 21–29. Retrieved from the World Wide
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page
Explores present and potential links between gender and climate change,
and the specific implications for gender of this phenomenon. It also provides
examples of women organized for change on matters concerning sustainable
development, specifically in constructing the World Summit on Sustainable
Development. It shows how women’s participation may translate into more
sensitive results on the gender theme.
Dankelman, I., Alam, K., Bashir Ahmed, W.,
Diagne Gueye, Y., Fatema, N. and Mensah-
Kutin, R. (2008). Gender, Climate Change and
Human Security: Lessons from Bangladesh,
Ghana and Senegal. WEDO, ABANTU for
Development in Ghana, ActionAid Bangladesh
and ENDA in Senegal.
This report consists of a review of general literature on gender, climate
change and human security, and it gives examples of various case studies in
Senegal, Ghana and Bangladesh.
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Dennison, C. (2003). From Beijing to Kyoto:
Gendering the International Climate Change
Negotiation Process. Retrieved from the World
Wide Web from: http://www.pugwash.org/
reports/pac/53/dennison.htm
In spite of the efforts of the UN to mainstream the gender theme, its activities,
debates and negotiations on climate change take a neutral stand in this
respect. This document suggests that international negotiations will not be
legitimate or efficient if the process does not take the theme of gender equity
into account.
Denton, F. (2001). Climate Change, Gender and
Poverty – Academic Babble or Realpolitik?
Retrieved from the World Wide Web from:
http://www.generoyambiente.org/admin/admin_
biblioteca/documentos/FatmaDenton.pdf
What does gender have to do with all this? This is the rhetorical question
with which the article begins. There is no doubt that climate change and
its variables will have devastating effects on the lives of men and women.
Climate change has been defined as a key phenomenon of our era – a group
of events that may alter the lives of humanity in general. The document
argues that climate change will accentuate even more the gaps between the
world’s rich and poor and, above all, will increase gender gaps.
Denton, F. (2004). Gender and Climate Change:
Giving the “Latecomer” a Head Start. In: IDS
Bulletin, 2004;35(3):42-49. Retrieved from the
World Wide Web from: http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/
bookshop/bulletin/bull353abs.htm#gender
Concentrates on three sensitive areas on the theme of climate – agriculture,
water and energy – and considers how adaptation strategies may be
designed to help women and men in these sectors mitigate the effects of
climate change. Suggestions include forest management projects that build
new capacities to improve products, soil quality and water conservation.
Annotated bibliography: Appendix 1