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This article is part of special IPS coverage of International Women’s Day on March 8 2020
- Gender equality and women’s rights have progressed immensely since the adoption of the most visionary agenda on women’s empowerment, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 25 years ago.
However, gender equality experts across the world are signaling that we need to identify additional paths for a sustainable world, including in our response to climate change.
This year, we have the opportunity to make a real difference in our climate response and to recognize its critical links to gender equality.
In addition to the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration this year, 2020 is also the year when countries are requested to deliver stronger climate action plans to adapt and cut their emissions further and faster under the global Paris Climate Accord.
As UNDP plays a central role in strengthening countries’ capacity to plan and implement their climate targets, the organization has worked with countries on gender-responsive climate action and climate finance.
UNDP’s Strengthening Governance of Climate Change Finance Programme (GCCF), supported by the Government of Sweden, has worked with countries to include gender in climate change policies and budgets in Asia and the Pacific since 2012.
Want to Go for Inclusive Climate Action? Then Start with Integrating Gender Equality into Climate Finance by Verania Chao & Koh Miyaoi, International Press Service (IPS), March 6, 2020
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Hat tip to the Stop Climate Science Denial Facebook page.
CLAIM: "90 percent of the world’s glaciers are growing."
VERDICT: 
SOURCE: Climate Shock: 90 Percent Of The World’s Glaciers Are GROWING, iceagenow.info, Principia Scientific, Nov 26, 2016
KEY TAKE AWAY: This claim is an inaccurate representation of a single study’s results, which concluded that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is gaining mass and is therefore not contributing to global sea level rise. Other scientific studies contradict the results of this study. There is also a large body of peer-reviewed research by glacial scientists which concludes that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is, in fact, contributing to sea level rise due to prominent ice loss on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Data from glaciers around the world show most are shrinking as a consequence of global warming, Edited By Clara Deck, Climate Feedback, Feb 26, 2020
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