Nina Jeffs
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From words to deeds: What next for climate action?
Empty chairs are left on stage as negotiations continue on the last day of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. Delegates from around the world attempt to agree on the final text of the COP26 agreement. Photo: Getty Images. Following the emotion and exhaustion of COP26, momentum behind global climate action is gathering again.
This is why women’s leadership is critical to climate action
Climate change is and will continue to disproportionately impact women and girls, especially in the global South. It’s one very big reason why women’s leadership is so essential to climate action. We’re publishing this important piece, originally published on China Dialogue under the Creative Commons BY NC NDlicense. Read the original here.
Women are key to tackling the effects of climate change
Due to unequal societal factors, women are underrepresented in all levels of environmental decision-making. However, women and girls are crucial in the work to achieve more effective and equitable climate outcomes. A 2019 study found that national parliaments with more women pass more stringent climate policies. Access to quality education, gender-responsive policy measures, and laws against gender discrimination, will set a pathway to gender parity in climate leadership.
Why women’s leadership is key to climate action
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Why women’s leadership is key to climate action
In 2019, indigenous leader Nara Baré embarked on a tour to Europe to denounce violations against indigenous peoples and the environment in Brazil Image: Midia Ninja, CC BY-SA 4.0 By Nina Jeffs, China Dialogue Jan. 19, 2022 At the COP26 climate summit, the leaders of Estonia, Tanzania and Bangladesh were the first to sign the Glasgow Women’s Leadership statement, calling for countries to support the leadership of women and girls on climate action at all levels of society and politics.
Why women’s leadership is key to climate action Original
At the COP26 climate summit, the leaders of Estonia, Tanzania and Bangladesh were the first to sign the Glasgow Women’s Leadership statement, calling for countries to support the leadership of women and girls on climate action at all levels of society and politics. Yet these three women comprised nearly a third of all female leaders at the conference, out of 140 heads of delegation.
The refugee crisis is the fault of states
Destroying the ‘Jungle’ did not eliminate people’s demand, or right, for asylum. But since the infamous refugee camp was destroyed by the French police in 2016, Calais has barely featured in the news. Macron’s visit in January sparked some media attention – but the scope of the European refugee crisis, and the world’s 65 million displaced people, is easily lost in a 24-hour news cycle. Unless we renew and reanimate the Calais discussion now, we risk turning down the dangerous path of apathy.
Google or the government, who is the real Big Brother?
Since the Edward Snowden revelations of 2013, we’ve been familiar with the trope of the ‘snooping’ government watching our every move like Big Brother come true. It’s splashed all over the papers, usually presented as a choice between individual privacy and national security – and the stakes have been raised with recent anti-terrorism legislation. Should we be afraid?
It’s not how much you give…
Mother Teresa famously once said that “it’s not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.” As much as I’ve never anticipated arguing against Mother Teresa, I find myself disagreeing. In fact, a hot debate has raged between Cambridge’s charitable student societies for years over this exact question – how much should we give, and how should we best achieve lasting change?
How likely is it that Cambridge will divest from fossil fuels?
With years of protests and bureaucratic discussion, a working group on ‘Ethical Investment’, and a recent series of Town Hall meetings, one might be forgiven for wondering how a decision on divestment still hasn’t been made. Eleanor Salter, Co-President of Cambridge Zero Carbon, is hopeful that the current working group, focused on fossil fuel divestment specifically, is “pretty much the last working group the University can formulate”.
Mind and matter are the keys to Cambridge homelessness
The cogs are moving within Cambridge’s complex, often inefficient machinery, making gains for mental health. With an opt-out system for class lists in the works, and the growth of peer-to-peer initiatives such as Student Minds, awareness of mental illness and the support needed is higher than ever. As incidents such as Professor Terentjev’s email to Natural Sciences freshers at Queens’ remind us, however, these cogs need continual oiling.
In conversation with a Cambridge bouncer
You see them every single week, most likely – but not limited to – on Wednesday evenings. With just a single wave of their hand, they determine the fate of your evening – whether you’ll be welcomed into a sweaty S Club 7-themed grotto, or be condemned to another hour in a freezing cold queue. But, most importantly, they’re there to keep people safe, an extremely serious task in light of a CUSU survey that found nightclubs were the most common places for sexual harassment to occur.
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