130 women leaders steal the limelight at UN climate show
by The Daily Eye Team September 29 2014, 12:47 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 41 secsWith women and girls on the frontline of climate change, women leaders representing 54 nations met in New York to call on global leaders gathered for Ban Ki-moon?s climate summit to catalyse gender-sensitive climate action Over 130 women leaders representing 54 nations gathered on September 23 in New York at an event??Leaders? Forum on Women Leading the Way: Raising Ambition for Climate Action??hosted by UN Women , Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, and Mary Robinson, former Irish president and founder of the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice, and showed their commitment to gender-sensitive climate action, thus contributing to catalysing climate justice. The forum held on September 23, a day before the UN secretary-general?s Climate Change Leadership Summit, and conceptualised as a mobilisation platform highlighted the integral relationship between gender equality, women?s leadership, and climate justice and solutions.