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Information about biofuels and bioenergy and gender issues.
Issues
Resources
- Gender Mainstreaming Guide for Africa Biogas Partnership Programme by ENERGIA, July 2010. "The Guide targets non-gender specialists in recognising and addressing gender issues in their work, with the intention of demystifying gender, and clarifying the concept and practice of 'gender mainstreaming' within African Biogas Partnership Program. Accompanied by a Resource Kit, this Guide uses experiences from Asia as well as Africa."
- Biodiversity, Gender and Climate Change, Convention on Biological Diversity publication for the 2009 Copenhagen UNFCCC Climate Conference.
- The authors present the opinion that "As with biodiversity, climate change does not affect women and men in the same way and...has a gender-differentiated impact."
- This report argues that "all aspects related to climate change mitigation, adaptation, policy development, and decision making should include a gender perspective."
- Gender and Equity Issues in Liquid Biofuels Production - FAO report, April 2008. "The objective of this paper is to discuss the potential gender-differentiated risks of liquid biofuels production and identify research and policy strategies to better understand and address them."
- Opportunities and Challenges in Biofuels development - “Voices of Women” (PDF file) - by Khamarunga Banda; presented at the March 2008 Southern African Regional Stakeholder Meeting.
News
- US $50 Million Pledge For Cleaner Cookstoves is Big Win For Women, Forests & Climate, 21 September 2010 by TreeHugger: "Today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to announce a $50 million pledge of seed money, distributed over five years, to help the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves provide 100 million clean-burning biomass cookstoves by 2020 to people in Africa, Asia and South America."
- "[T]he UN says every year 1.9 million people, mostly women and children, die from ailments caused by exposure to smoke from inefficient biomass cooking stoves."
- "What fuels these cookstoves? In some places it's dried animal dung--eminently renewable and frankly a good use of natural resources, but still a health hazard indoors--but it's also wood. Gathered and cut from forests, often carried long distances, again most often by women, this contributes to rampant deforestation in some places and is a burden that can be lessened by stoves which use fuel more efficiently."
- "Beyond the effect of cookstove smoke on people in the immediate vicinity, the black carbon soot has a climate impact as well."[1]
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