Equitable Climate Solutions

Women in Europe for a Common Future, together with partners worldwide, promotes equitable climate protection policies and solutions

30.11.2010 | WECF Campaign

Countries: International
Partners: WECF and including amongst others Climate Action Network EECCA, UNISON, Little Earth, BIOM
Issues: climate justice, eradicating poverty
Duration: 11/2009 - 12/2017

Climate Change is hitting the poorest the most. Our local partners working in poor communities across the world see this happening everyday. When the draughts hit, it is the poor women farmers in Uganda who have nothing left when they loose their harvest, they have no savings to buy food and medicines. When the floods invade the villages in Afghanistan, it are the mud-huts of the poorest widows homes that collapse first, and with it, their small storage of rice for the winter months.

In Kyrgyzstan the terrible escalation of violence in 2010 was partly caused by social unrest about the 6-fold increase of energy prices, whereas many poor families already spent up to 30% of their available income on energy. Increasingly funds are becoming available to help countries mitigate and adapt to climate change. But these funds are not arriving in the poor communities, they are not accessible for widows and women-lead households.

WECF cooperates with partners in Africa, Asia and the EECCA region to assure that the voices of vulnerable groups are heard in the climate negotiations and proposes changes to the criteria for climate funding, to make sure they become accessible in particular to women, indigenous peoples and urban poor. WECF also cooperates with partners locally to help communities take “adaptation” and “mitigation” measures, and to share best practices with partners internationally, with a focus on creating sustainable livelihoods and employment for women.

As networks we support each other and promote fast learning amongst our partners. WECF is continuously looking for funding for its climate protection activities. WECF applied for a 5 year programme for financial support to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs for its "Coalition for Climate Justice" with 264 partners in more than 65 developing countries, which has not been granted.  We more then ever need your support. Find out how you can help us here.


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