In 2015, FAWCO's UN Reps Team and Environment Team collaborated to inform FAWCO members about the proceedings of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP21) held in Paris from November 30 to December 11, 2015. The UN Climate Conference in Paris was of historic importance. While no one from the UN Reps Team or Environment Team were able to attend the Conference, we reported on what was happening. In addition to general background information on UNFCCC (and definitions of the UN’s alphabet soup of abbreviations), we posted summaries of previous UN environment meetings.
In 2016, motivated by the interest of members of AIWC Cologne, FAWCO applied for Observer status at the UNFCCC so our UN Reps could participate in Climate Change Conference sessions in Bonn. We were granted Observer status and three members of FAWCO's UN Reps Team attended meetings in Bonn in May 2017. FAWCO joined the
Women and Gender Constituency of Observer NGOs at the UNFCCC and will continue our coverage of and involvement with the climate conference process.
By Ayuska Motha, UN Rep (AIWC Cologne)
One of the highlights of the past week was a side event organized by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and co-sponsored by FAWCO called “Climate-induced migration: understanding systemic drivers and symptomatic responses to vulnerabilities”. The panel presented various real world examples from all over the world including Fiji, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Nepal. I had...
By Ayuska Motha, UN Rep (AIWC Cologne)
The SB50 or intersessional meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change wrapped up last night and with it any further discussion on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on global warming of 1.5C (SR1.5C).
I have attended the remaining meetings on this item and started to see some...
By Stacey Kimmig, UN Rep (AIWC Cologne)
As SB50 draws to a close, a lot of important issues still remain unresolved. Final meetings will be held today, to try and reach some sort of consensus on the final issues; we will know more this afternoon about how much has been achieved. The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) will give a...
By Ayuska Motha, June 21, 2019
The first week of so-called Subsidiary Body (SB) meetings at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn are coming to a close and it has been another blur of meetings, workshops and events. Stacey Kimmig and I started out with the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) Strategy meeting last Sunday to...
By Stacey Kimmig and Ayuska Motha (Photo credits: IISD/ENB|Kiara Worth)
The final negotiations have finally come to an end in Katowice, Poland after a more than 24 hour delay on the final sessions due to a stall in the negotiations. The good news is that the Paris Agreement implementation guidelines have been written and agreed upon, despite concern that without...
Now that COP24 has concluded, after a one-day extension, here are some of the WGC demands for COP24:
Ensure human rights-based and gender-just implementation guidelines
Effectively address loss and damage
Place communities over markets
Create a just and equitable transition for all
Break free from fossil fuels and unsafe energy systems
Listen to people, not profit
Ensure climate ‘solutions’ are...
