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Stop Harming, Start Helping - Women's Rights and Climate Change
Climate Change is more than an environmental issue. It is about poverty and human rights. More than this it is about the rights of women.
Poor women are least responsible for climate change - and most burdened by the impact. In solidarity with thousands of other courageous women and men around the world, we ask you to join our campaign for gender and climate justice. Click Here to learn more.
What you can do!
Sign Oxfam Canada's online petition to the Canadian government!
- Become an Oxfam member and get connected! Click here.
- Donate to Oxfam Canada and support our partner organizations around the world. There are many ways to donate . For more information click here.
- Step up for women's rights! Send us stories and pictures of your events and actions for our Campaigners in Action page. Each week we'll feature different stories from across the country. To find out more and get some campaigning ideas, click here.
- Write or visit your local Member of Parliament and let them know that women’s rights and climate change are important issues for the citizens of Canada.
- Decrease your own carbon footprint – reduce electricity use, bike, recycle, plant a tree – in solidarity with women and men around the world working for climate justice.
What Canada should do!
Canadians and the Canadian g
overnment have an urgent role to play.
Canada should show the way forward on climate change by dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions and showing leadership at UN climate change negotiations. Canada must promote a fair and responsible global deal that:
- Significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions to keep global warming levels far below 2 degrees Celsius, the point at which scientists say catastrophe will result
- Prioritizes adaptation funding to help women living in poverty adapt to the impacts of climate change – such as clean and accessible water and renewable energy sources, cooking fuels, re-forestation initiatives, and climate change related education
- Supports women’s organization, and particularly their participation and leadership in climate change action
- Enables technology transfers that build capacities in poor countries to develop appropriate technologies, renewable energy solutions and sustainable transportation, with a focus on empowering women to adapt to climate change.
