Is the gender dimension of the climate change debate forgotten?
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2001
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New Delhi, India: ENDA Tiers Monde, Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe)
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This paper presents three executive summaries of the presented talks at the Eight Conference of Parties in New Delhi. It also presents the full theme paper entitled "Gender and climate change at COP8: A forgotten element". The main themes discussed on this conference were: the links between disasters and impact on gender, increasing women's burden, the need to increase women on decision-making processes, community-specific knowledge, and mainstreaming gender within climate change debate.
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Local knowledge, Women, Gender, Climate change, Disasters, Environmental degradation
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Paper presented at the Eight Conference of Parties, New Delhi, India, 29 October 2001