On March 23, 2022 (Wednesday), from 9h to 10h30 EDT, CIPÓ participated in the event “Building Connections across the Gender, Climate and Security Nexus, on the sidelines of the 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. CIPÓ was represented by Maiara Folly (CIPÓ’s Programme Director), who chaired the panel.
Other speakers included:
- Åsa Regnér (Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and UN Women Deputy Executive Director);
- Jayathma Wickramanayake, UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth;
- Gwendolyn Myers, Youth mediator, TIME Magazine-201, Top Eight Young Reformers Across the Globe Shaping the World, Liberia;
- Kathryn Milliken, Policy & Programme Adviser on Climate Change, World Food Programme;
- Veronica Veloso, Senior Program Officer- Participatory Grantmaking & Operations, FRIDA, The Young Feminist Fund;
- Janani Vivekananda, Head of Programme Climate Diplomacy and Security at Adelphi
As we enter the third year of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Commission will take place in a hybrid format under the priority theme, “Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes.” All side events and parallel events will be fully virtual.
Issues discussed:
• The role of women and young climate activists and environmental peacebuilders in conflict and fragile contexts.
• The role of women and young climate activists and environmental peacebuilders in conflict and fragile contexts;
• The role of Member States at the national and regional level, as well as through intergovernmental processes (CSW; COP; PBC) and UN organs (Security Council) to operationalize the gender-climate-security nexus;
• The status of UN system coordination and policy efforts to increase integrated programmatic efforts in line with Our Common Agenda, placing women and girls at the center of security policy.
The event was conducted in English with simultaneous translation to Spanish, French and Arabic.
