Come along and hear WENA speak at the Green New Deal Conference in Melbourne this weekend

http://greeninstitute.org.au/gnd/

Gender, Climate and the Green New Deal Workshop

Presenters and facilitators
Jo Tenner, Convener, Women’s Environment Network Australia (WENA).
Ariel Salleh, longtime activist and author of Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice: women write political ecology (2009).

Workshop outline
Gender equity is an essential component of a transition to a green society, this factor must be incorporated into analysis, policy and programs on any Green New Deal.

Ariel: Why is women’s ecological footprint negligible in comparison with men’s? Why do social movement studies disguise the fact that half of all worker, peasant, and Indigenous populations are women? Why are women under-represented in climate negotiations at local, national, and international levels? The absence of sex-gender literacy and indeed cross-cultural literacy among many policy analysts, academic researchers, and even activists, indicates that some ‘capacity building’ is needed.

Jo will discuss the range of ways that women are active on climate change from an international to local level. As well as presenting an analysis of the green jobs agenda from a gender perspective. In order to create a green new deal that doesn’t (at the least) reinforce existing gender inequities and at the best recognizes that gender justice goes hand in hand with environmental as well as economic justice.

Open floor discussion: On how to strengthen Oz and international women’s voices and actions in climate change and green new deal politics.

What change is needed in the subject/topic/area discussed?
How can such change be achieved?
What will I/we do to bring about changes