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Men Warm Globe, Women Feel the Heat, Group Claims
By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
December 6, 2005
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But the United Nations has already begun to take the issue of "global warming" -- and the roles men and women play in it -- seriously, according to the "Gender and Climate Change" website.
It is important for the U.N. "to integrate gender sensitivity into all mechanisms, policies and measures, and tools and guidelines within the climate debate," according to the website.
"In general, the Climate Change policy process tends to be driven by a masculine view of the problem and its solutions," the website explained.
The website calls for "a gender-sensitive criteria" for the Kyoto Protocol and for "global and national studies on the gender-differentiated impacts of global climate change, including a focus on gender differences in capabilities to cope with climate change adaptation, and mitigation are urgently required."
But the U.N.'s attempts to address gender and climate change have failed to impress Rohr. She accused the U.N. meeting in Montreal of being male-dominated.
"As I am looking around the negotiations, it is really a male discussion going around, [discussing] climate change with a closed view to the people (women) that are being affected," she explained.
"It's not [a meeting] that will really help to mitigate climate change," she said.
Rohr's exhibition booth set up at the U.N. conference featured signs questioning, "How to overcome the nearly uniform domination of men in leadership structures?"
"Women are frequently marginalized in a variety of ways ... Initiatives addressing adaptation to climate change require consideration of local customs while ensuring that all concerns and perspectives are voiced and valued," read signs at Rohr's booth.
More than 8,000 government leaders, environmentalists and scientists are attending the U.N. Climate Change Conference. Organizers are calling the conference, which runs until Dec. 9, the largest meeting since the Kyoto Climate Conference in 1997.
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