Discussion Highlights

• Mitigation – cut emissions and take responsibility
• Stories from Oz, Solomons, Tibet/India, Samoa, Myanmar
• Government policies & practice – reactive and sometimes in collusion with private sector/industry polluters
• Private sector impacts on environment – e.g. logging, mining
• Land rights and ownership – flairs up in emergencies
• Knowledge and understanding of women about the science
• Counter campaign and addressing that
• Melting ice in Tibet
• Plans for surviving emergencies & warning systems

Priorities for Action

• Gender and climate change education for faith leaders
• Religious practice supporting ecological consciousness
• Education for women and young people on the science and how to protect themselves
• Women’s voice in decisions made in government and private sector
• Collect information around land ownership including gender
• Advocacy around climate change & social justice
• Acknowledge and invest in indigenous women’s knowledge
• Analysis of politics & power & how to influence

Working Together

• Recognise and strengthen the good existing work
• Keep it achievable, realistic & motivating
• Develop new and link existing networks at sub-regional and global levels (e.g. One Million Women and WEDO and their Gender and Climate Change Coalition)
• Capturing stories in different ways (electronic and other) and sharing with other communities and groups
• Local traditional/indigenous knowledge based organisations working together with other groups and organisations
• Interfaith dialogue about climate change to prepare for and respond to climate change