Gender, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Date: Tuesday 1 February 2011, Turku at 14.30-17.30 o’clock
Venue: Turku City Theatre, Itäinen Rantakatu 14
Interpretation: Finnish-Scandinavian-English
The event will present ways in which a gender equality perspective can create effective solutions for sustainable development
and help alleviate climate change. How does gender affects consumption habits, energy use, food choices and transportation?
And how you can support sustainable development in your own activities?
Among those invited to the event are decision-makers, politicians, civil servants, researchers, representatives of NGOs and
other interested people, who will discuss and ponder how to integrate a gender perspective into the Nordic debate on climate
change and sustainable development as well as the benefits of this perspective.
The event is free and open for everybody interested. Please register no later than 17 January 2011 at tasy@stm.fi (or by telephone +358 9 16073212/Liisa Tyventö, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health).
The seminar is organised by the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of Finland, in co-operation
with the Government of Åland, Women's Studies at the Åbo Akademi University and Women´s Studies at the University of Turku.
The seminar is part of the Nordic conference Solutions local, together which focuses on sustainable development in the Baltic Sea Region. In conjunction with the conference the Council of Ministers
for Gender Equality has initiated two addresses providing a gender perspective in session 1.2 Creative urban planning (Jonina Bjartmarz) and 4.2 Rethinking working methods (Aira Kalela), both Monday 31 Januari 16:00-18:00 PM.
Preliminary programme:
Opening address
Addresses
Gender and energy use. Research Manager Annika Carlsson-Kanyama, Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut, FOI/ Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden
Women and men in movement: Traffic and gender. Associate Professor Hilda Rømer Christensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
What do men and women eat? Researcher PhD Gun Roos, Statens Institutt for Forburksforskning/ National Institute for Consumer Research, Norway
What impact does gender have in local authority climate policy? Researcher Christian Dymén, Project “Another Climate”, Nordregio, Stockholm, Sweden
At about 15.30-16.00 Coffee break
Panel discussion
Discussants:
- Aira Kalela, International Expert, Global Gender and Climate Alliance, Finland
- Jonina Bjartmarz, Entrepreneur, former Minister of the Environment and Minister for Nordic Cooperation, Iceland
- Katrin Sjögren, Minister of the Environment, Åland
Discussion, questions
