Tabuya calls for increase in gender- inclusive finance
Ms Tabuya emphasised the need for a substantial increase in gender-inclusive finance, given the low current rate of a meagre 0.01 per cent of global climate finance for gender.
Wednesday 06 December 2023 | 10:30
From Left: Hillary Clinton and (right) Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection Lynda Tabuya.
Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection Lynda Tabuya met with Hillary Clinton at the sidelines of COP28 in Dubai on Monday.
Ms Tabuya delivered her address alongside Ms Clinton, ADB president Massa and former President of Mexico Felipe Calderon in the high level ADB panel on forging women-led solutions to heat stress.
Ms Tabuya emphasised the need for a substantial increase in gender-inclusive finance, given the low current rate of a meagre 0.01 per cent of global climate finance for gender.
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She shared the National Action Plan to prevent gender-based violence and its implementation over the next four years, with the need to take a closer look at the relationship between heat stress and gender-based violence.
She further underscored the need to recognise and quantify the unpaid work of women, and called for gender responsive just transition to be a stand alone agenda at COP 29.
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