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Women negotiating the climate

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For the next event in Women Climate Congress (WCC) popular Women’s Climate Conversations online series,  WCC Founder Dr Janet Salisbury will be in conversation with Dr Sally Box about her role as Australia’s Chief negotiator at the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) conferences, the outlook for COP29 in Azerbaijan later this year and forward plans towards a possible Australian-Pacific COP31 in 2026. They will be joined in the conversation by WCC members Kesaya Baba (Senior Manager, COP31 Strategy and Partnerships, WWF-Australia) and Tamara Inkster-Draper (Programme Manager, International Climate Politics Hub).

WCC has allowed 1.5 hours for this important conversation to allow for some in depth sharing of information around Australia’s role and the overall global outlook for phasing out fossil fuels and keeping to 1.5 degrees (and not more than 2 degrees) of global warming in accordance with the Paris Agreement, and including the vital significance of women’s leadership and gender equality in achieving this outcome, as well as longer-term systemic changes to build human and planetary wellbeing.

Further information/speaker bios: Women’s Climate Conversations

Contact: Janet Salisbury   janet.salisbury@iinet.net.au  |  M  0416167280

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Zonta International is a global human rights organisation committed to building a better world for women and girls. In short, Zonta Says YES to gender equality, NO to violence against women and NOW to gender equal climate action. Due to systemic gender inequality, women and girls have fewer resources and choices to recover from extreme weather events. Zonta Says NOW to gender-equal climate action is Zonta's campaign seeking climate justice for women and girls - so they can prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from the impacts of climate change on the same basis as men. The idea for the campaign began in the Zonta Club of Perth in Western Australia.