Women and Environment

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• Women and Environment
• Pollution and Waste Report back

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KEY THEMES

• Relationship between gender race and poverty in
  an urban context
• Waste Management
• Need to create enabling environment for
  innovative local solutions
• Gender representation
• Partnerships for gender equity and environmental
  solutions

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Waste Management

• Need for enabling policy, legislative framework
  and programmes to establish minimum standards to
  protect poor women working on landfill sites
• Need to create framework to support a viable
  market in recycling and eliminate barriers that
  women face in participating in this.

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Waste Cont

• Need to mobilise RD funds and activities to
  support innovative solutions to waste management
• Promote cleaner production
• Awareness campaigns to mobilise womens consumer
  power around environmental best practice

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Women in environmental science

• Identify and eliminate remaining barriers to
  young women choosing environmental science as a
  career
• Promote maths and science as choices for school
  girls
• Support interaction between science
  establishment, civil society and government in
  order to inform research agenda

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Women in the Corporate Sector

• Develop action programme to ensure that targets
  for black women representation on boards of
  listed companies is met.
• Develop action programme to ensure that
  requirement for environmental issues to be on
  board agendas is implemented
• Empower women board members on environmental
  issues

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General

• Build community, government private sector
  partnerships around implementation of legislation
  and environmental best practice
• Need for awareness and information campaigns on
  pollution and waste issues
• Continue to strive for better gender
  representivity in corporates and politics