Workshop in Paris: Gender and Climate Justice
Workshop "Gender and Climate Justice: Critical issues and awareness raising tools", 22.5.2024, afternoon, at Cité Audacieuse, Paris. With a presentation of gender and climate justice issues – focus on extractivism, and an exchange among various actors how to promote the nexus gender and climate (tools, campaigns, projects). Organizers: WIDE Austria and Adéquations, COPGENDERED project, supported by the EU Erasmus+ programme.
Online Talk: Feminist & youth perspectives on the Climate Conference 2023
with Mana Omar (Kenya), Jasmin Lang and Martin Krenn (Austria)
Tuesday, 16th of January 2024, 5.00 pm (CET)
Feminist South Perspectives on the Climate Crisis – Online talk series by Südwind & WIDE
Follow up video (ca. 11 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbZiZASEB84&list=PLBgbUra582R4daqfliqWLSv23BdAE4aI7&index=3
Whose priorities and interests were considered at the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 that took place in December 2023 in Dubai, with the head of the United Arab Emirates‘ state oil company presiding the climate summit? How could feminist and youth climate activists make themselves heard?
In this online talk, Mana Omar, an environmental expert and feminist climate activist from Kenya, Jasmin […]
Mana Omar on the climate impacts on pastoralist indigenous communities in Kenya
Feminist South perspectives on the climate crisis
Online talk with Mana Omar
Environmental expert Mana Omar will speak about the impacts of the climate crisis on pastoralist communities in Kenya (Somali, Maasai), focusing on the losses and damages they do experience and gendered aspects of the climate crisis.
She will talk about the efforts of building climate resilience among pastoralist communities and promoting additional income sources for women.
Moderated by Joachim Raich, climate justice advocate at Südwind.
Language: English
Date: Wednesday, 22. November 2023, 5.00 – 6.30 pm (CET)
Register here via zoom
Mana Omar
is the executive […]
Feminist South Perspectives on the Climate Crisis – Online Talk Series
(2.3.2024) As a follow-up, 3 short videos (10-12 min) have been produced from this online talk series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBgbUra582R4daqfliqWLSv23BdAE4aI7
The climate crisis is accelerating. Yet rich nations delay decisive action, while many countries in the Global South already face the harshest impacts of the climate crisis, resulting in lives and homes lost, existences and ecosystems wiped out. At the same time, climate-induced impacts like droughts and water-scarcity are often exacerbated by resource extraction, ranging from mineral (Gold, Lithium) to biomass (wood, soy, palmoil, rubber, leather) resources.
Against these adversities, many strong women fight the climate crisis on the frontlines in […]
Filipino climate activist Joanna Sustento – Daughter of the Storm
CANCELLED!
Online Talk – part of the series: Feminist South Perspectives on the Climate Crisis, organized by Südwind and WIDE
Joanna Sustento is a survivor of Super Taiphoon Haiyan (2013). She will talk about her journey into the climate movement and the current situation of the climate movement in the Philippines. She is a mobilizer and helps to make the climate movement bigger. In doing so, she is active for „Roots“, a global initiative of Greenpeace that works with people and communities who are on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Joanna more particularly believes in the power of storytelling, which is […]
Gold mining in Sudan: Women, the climate crisis & extractivism
Gold mining in Sudan: Women, the climate crisis & extractivism - Online talk 25.10.2023