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COP 21: WILPF urges governments to commit to ambitious targets

813e8d39-8c2a-4e2d-b3ea-33106b66a43aThe twenty-first Conference of the Parties (COP21) has started in Paris. WILPF International is holding two workshops, both on 6 December 2015. They are “Nuclear energy doesn’t save the climate” and “Women facing climate change.”

Earlier this year, at the meeting of its centenary congress, WILPF passed a resolution on Climate Change, Environmental Justice and Peace. The Resolution calls for urgent government action and international divestment from fossil fuel investments, as well as the appointment of a Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change.

Read the Resolution in full.

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