Gender-Responsive Climate Finance: Where We Are and Where We Need to Be

The State of Gender Equality – #GenderGaps with Liane Schalatek on Gender-Responsive Climate Finance: Where We Are and Where We Need to Be

Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC) at IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi invites you to

The State of Gender Equality – #GenderGaps

Gender-Responsive Climate Finance: Where We Are and Where We Need to Be

Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: July 15, 2021
Time: 6 PM IST
Platform: Zoom and Facebook Live

Speaker:

Liane Schalatek
Associate Director, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Washington, DC

Liane Schalatek is the Associate Director of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Washington, DC Office. The Heinrich Böll Stiftung is a German political party foundation, affiliated with the German Green Party, with 33 offices worldwide working on sustainable development, energy transition and climate change, democracy promotion, protecting civil society spaces as well as gender democracy. At the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Liane spearheads the foundation’s work on climate finance. She has more than 20 years of experience in global governance issues, specifically in international development and finance and international climate negotiations, as well as the promotion of human rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment. A particular interest of her work has been awareness raising and capacity building on the need to engender macroeconomic and finance policy.
Currently, her work focuses on international climate finance, with an emphasis on public climate finance flows and on equitable access to climate funding and specifically the Green Climate Fund (GCF), a process she followed from its design process in 2011 onward through all GCF Board meetings. From 2016-2019, she served as Developed Country Civil Society Active Observer to the GCF. As an expert on gender and climate finance, she works on the gender dimension of climate financing instruments and operations, including in the GCF, other climate funds and the UNFCCC more broadly.
A journalist by training, she co-founded and co-leads the website ClimateFundsUpdate (www.climatefundsupdate.org), one of the primary civil society public climate finance tracking sites, as a joint project with the London-based Overseas Development Institute (ODI). She researches and publishes on international development, climate and gender issues. Liane holds a M.A. in Political Science and Political Economy from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany and a M.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University, Washington D.C.

Discussants:

Prof Mizan R. Khan
Deputy Director, International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD), Independent University, Bangladesh

Dr Sanghamitra Dhar
Technical Coordinator (States) – Gender-Responsive Budgeting, UN Women, Delhi and Manipur

Marina Andrijevic
PhD candidate, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; Guest Researcher, Climate Analytics

YouTube Event Video:

https://youtu.be/-j4ktaFyAMc

Facebook Live Video:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=external&v=849742538983265

Event Report:

Gender-Responsive Climate Finance: Where We Are and Where We Need to Be

Media Coverage:

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