Event
Gender Equality to solve the Climate Emergency
Climate emergencies are not gender neutral. In fact, the degradation of the planet’s natural systems has a disproportionate effect on women and girls.
UNESCO’s International Day of Women in Multilateralism 2024 will recognize women leaders in the multilateral system to catalyze a global dialogue on multilateral solutions to gender discrimination that inhibits responses to climate emergencies.
The event will promote women’s roles in scientific discoveries, conservation of ecosystems and efforts to reduce threats to biodiversity. It will also work to increase and strengthen women’s leadership in the governance and management of natural resources and water.
The results will be compiled as a set of recommendations to meaningfully contribute the gender perspective to the outcomes of the World Science Forum (November 2024), the UN Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona (April 2024) and the UN Ocean Conference (June 2025).
REGISTRATION
To participate in the event (in-person or online)
Please register here!
The event is open to the public according to availability of seats. Identification will be requested at the entrance: 125 avenue de Suffren, 75007 Paris, France
PROGRAMME
Welcome and opening remarks by Lidia Brito, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO and Simona-Mirela Miculescu, President of the 42nd session of the General Conference.
A keynote address will be delivered by Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile.
Interactive discussions will be moderated by Nadia Massih, journalist for France 24, featuring:
- Alexia Barrier (France), world renowned sailor and founder of 4MYPLANET
- Nisreen Elsaim (Sudan), Chair of the UN Secretary General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change
- Maya Gabeira (Brazil), Big Wave surfer and UNESCO Champion of The Ocean and Youth
- Fatou Jeng (Gambia), founder of Clean Earth and leader of the UNFCCC Women and Gender policy group
- Daniel Koto Dagnon (Benin), President of the Youth Parliament for Water and founder of the Green Amazones Programme
- Raquel Martins (Portugal), Executive Director of Help Images and founder of Women from the Sea project
- Yolanda Sanchez (Chile), Director of the Latin American Marine Educators Network
- Hemavathi Shekhar (India), lawyer and founder of the Enact Earth Foundation
- Warsha Singh (Fiji), marine ecologist, graduate of the global Gender Equality Studies and Training programme (GRÓ GEST)
Join the event online
The International Day of Women in Multilateralism was established in 2021, at the initiative of Gabon, with the adoption of Resolution 41 C/57 by UNESCO’s General Conference. This day advocates for increasing the representation of women in key decision-making positions to shape and implement multilateral agendas and to ensure that multilateralism works for women and girls through gender transformative actions and agreements.
