Jeannette, Executive Director of WOCAN, discussing Climate Change Mitigation and Gender at the Climate Investment Fund (CIF) 2012 Partnership Forum in Istanbul, Turkey on Nov 6, 2012.
Addressing the question of why gender rarely comes up in discussions of climate change mitigation, Jeannette stated that when women are identified as a vulnerable group, they are framed as a ‘charity’ case, making them unlikely partners of private and public sector investments. She emphasized that we as gender advocates need to be aware of how our language and messages are interpreted by others; women need to be presented as innovators and entrepreneurs. https://wocan.org/news/wocan-climate-investment-fund-partnership-forum
