Women at COP 20 Blast Failure for Real Action in Lima

摘要

As COP20 came to a close, the members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Women and Gender Constituency (WGC), representing hundreds of thousands of women and men from around the world, responded to the failure of the Lima outcome to reflect the urgency of the climate crisis. For over two weeks in Lima, WGC and Women's Caucus members participated directly in the negotiations, held press conferences, conducted advocacy trainings, wrote articles, released reports and briefing papers, joined demonstrations and marches and collaborated with dozens of colleagues from around the world who participated through all this action in the COP in Lima or in support activities back home in local communities. In spite of these efforts, and those of many allies in Civil Society, the COP failed to move substantially forward towards the ultimate goal of agreeing on a plan to avert climate catastrophe, although in the final hours it agreed to an outcome in order to keep work moving towards Paris next year.