La Constituante Femmes et Genre, avec d’autres défenseur se.s des droits humains, du genre et des femmes, demande aux dirigeants mondiaux de garantir des politiques climat justes et équitables, qui donnent la priorité au respect des droits des peuples et à l’intégrité de la planète, tout en répondant aux injustices entre les nations et au sein de celle-ci, dues aux effets du climat, et aux différentes capacités de résilience.
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Launched by the Women and Gender Constituency in 2015, the Award honours the fundamental contribution of gender equality and women’s organisations in the fight against climate chaos and demonstrates the necessity to integrate gender equality in all climate policies.
"The incredible dynamism of the Gender Just Climate Solutions awardees network is a source of innovative and successful experiences that informs the CTCN’s recommendations for gender-responsive technology transfer and development", noted CTCN Director Dr. Rose Mwebaza.
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The Paris Agreement established the technology framework to provide overarching guidance to the work of the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee (TEC) and the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) in promoting and facilitating enhanced action on technology development and transfer. The TEC and the CTCN are pleased to launch their first joint publication on technology and the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC).
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This policy brief is a supplement to ‘Bridges of Opportunity: Partnering for Africa–Europe Green Development’, a discussion paper prepared by the United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) on Africa’s development options and the green transition in light of COVID-19 and the new European Green Deal.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the heightened vulnerability of the world’s poorest and most marginalized. It has also underscored the disparities in development between the rich economies and the less developed ones, emphasizing the critical need to enhance Africa’s adaptive capacity. The combined impacts of climate change and Covid-19 call for urgent and radical solutions to future exogenous shocks. Disruption caused by Covid-19 has so far resulted in Africa’s economy contracting by some 2.6%, with a loss of gross domestic product (GDP) of US$120 billion (ECA, 2020).