International Institute for Environment and Development

Advancing gender justice in biodiversity data and policy through women-led data collection and evidence generation

Through this collaboration with the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD) Women’s Caucus, we seek to address these gaps ...
BusinessMirror

DENR exec highlights link between women leaders and environmental protection

Undersecretary for Strategic Communications Marilou Erni emphasized that environmental protection and peacebuilding are deeply interconnected with women as leaders and catalysts of transformation.
webtv.un.org

for Achieving Gender Equality and the Advancement of Women"

In accordance with its multi-year programme of work for 2002-2006, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will review the thematic issue of “Enhanced participation of women in development: An ...
Panda

WWF welcomes the official recognition of the Gender & Environment Group in the DRC

The Ministerial Decree establishing creation, organization and operation of the Gender and Environment Group within the Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Sustainable Development was ...
JSTOR Daily

Gender and the Environment: Traps and Opportunities

A growing debate about gender and the environment highlights women's roles in the use and management of natural resources, opening up important opportunities for development analysis and action. But ...
Devdiscourse

Clean Cooking: The Overlooked Climate Solution That Could Cut 2 Gigatons of Emissions

UNEP report Advancing Clean Cooking for Climate Action reveals that transforming how 2.3 billion people cook could save millions of lives, empower women, and cut nearly two gigatons of CO₂ emissions ...
lse

Gender, Post/coloniality and Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions

This course is available on the MPhil/PhD in Gender, MSc in Culture, Justice, and Environment, MSc in Development Management (Political Economy), MSc in Development Management (Political Economy) (LSE ...
UNHCR

Gender and the environment, Djibouti

Djibouti shelters about 22,000 refugees of primarily Somali origin. Climatic and soil conditions around the Ali Adde and Holl Holl camps are harsh, being dry and desert-like. Water shortages limit ...
NPR

Nature, Nurture, And Our Evolving Debates About Gender

When a baby is born, one of the first questions people ask the parents is this: "What is it?" "Gender is unquestionably the most salient feature of a person's identity," says Lise Eliot, a professor ...
World Bank

Gender Equality and Development – Overview (Self-paced)

Based on the contents of the 2012 World Development Report (WDR) on Gender Equality and Development, and designed to meet the need for "just-in-time" learning and accommodate professional and ...
GMA Network

Environment, health, gender inclusivity focus of 10th National PHE Conference

The 10th National Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Conference placed the spotlight on equity, sustainability, and youth leadership as advocates from across the Philippines and partner ...
JSTOR Daily

Gender and Environmental Sensitivity in Nestling Collared Flycatchers

In many vertebrates, males are apparently more affected by adverse environmental conditions, particularly during early stages of development, than are females. Three explanations have been proposed ...