Just over a month ago, 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)-COP22 took place in Marrakesh, in what Parties and the Moroccan Presidency had labelled the ‘COP of Action’.
WEDO, alongside its partners in the Women and Gender Constituency, went to COP22 with a comprehensive set of demands, outlining principles for implementation of national plans that would ensure human rights, gender equality and the rights of indigenous peoples; specific recommendations as to how issues of water, agriculture and health are framed in the UNFCCC process; and clear positions against corporate influence in the climate process and the reliance on leveraging private finance for climate action over public funding from Governments.
