Copenhagen Climate Summit 2009

WECF was present at the UN Climate Change Conference 2009

01.11.2009 | WECF Event

Countries:	Denmark
Donors:	WECF Germany, WECF Netherlands, WECF France
Partners:	EcoForum Kazakhstan, The Greens Movement of Georgia, Friends of Baltic, Russia, CAN Ukraine, Little Earth, Tajikistan, Black Sea Women’s Club Odessa, Ukraine, AWHHE Armenia, BIOM Kyrgyzstan, UNISON Kyrgyzstan
Issues:	Energy & Climate
Duration:	11/2009 - 12/2009

WECF was present at the Climate Summit in Copenhagen, the largest conference on Climate Change since Kyoto, where international agreements will be made to combat climate change.

All eyes were on Copenhagen in December 2009, when the international community gathered for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to seal a new agreement on emission targets.

The WECF delegation not only co-organized five side events during the COP 15 but also emphasized throughout the conference the urgent need for a Copenhagen outcome which would be equitable and respected the rights and needs of women, indigenous people and the poor.

Women in Europe for a Common Future worked together with the Global Forest Coalition and other members of the Women and Gender Caucus to elaborate more specific policy advice on the need to integrate gender in the Copenhagen outcomes.

The network was also finvolved in a two day training for partners and a visible on other caucuses in which members of our networks participated, including the CAN – Climate Action Network meetings, the gender and women’s meetings as well as the climate justice meetings.

According to WECF, women have to be involved as equal stakeholders at the climate process. Another issue WECF focusses on is combatting climate change with sustainable energy – especially on household level – as it can provide a much needed contribution to improving livelihoods in poor communities.

Household and community level projects under the Kyoto-Protocol-Mechanism CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) - better adapted to the local realities - reconcile the needs of reducing poverty whilst mitigating climate change. But so far the barriers for these kind of household level small scale projects are too high to become reality. WECF and partners therefore develop suitable sustainable energy solutions for the different needs in the Central Asia and Caucasus region and look into the different possibilities of upscaling these projects.

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