Heinrich Boell Foundation New Delhi, India

🎉✨ Celebrating Heinrich Böll’s Legacy ✨🎉 On Heinrich Böll’s birth anniversary, we bring you a heartfelt reading from our booklet, narrated by our Democracy Coordinator, Dr. Mirza Zulfiqar Rahman. 🌿📚

#HappeningTomorrrow Join iFOREST for the Webinar and Report Release on Gender-Responsive Pathways for a Just Transition. Meet an expert panel discussing the intersection of gender and just transition. This discussion will focus on the importance of including gender-responsive approaches in just transition and energy transition plans, ensuring these efforts bring real change and aren’t just an afterthought. 🔗 Register now to participate: https://lnkd.in/g-xEWaAj 🗓️ Date: 12th December 2024 ⏰ Time: 16:00–17:00 IST Join iFOREST in advancing inclusive and transformative action! National Commission for Women - India, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, India, Suhela Khan, Suravee Nayak, Aditi Vyas, Anabella Rosemberg, Srestha Banerjee, Chandra Bhushan, Sadia Sohail, Jochen Luckscheiter, UN Women, Climate Action Network International, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH), IWWAGE - an initiative of LEAD at Krea University, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC

Join iFOREST for the Webinar and Report Release on Gender-Responsive Pathways for a Just Transition iFOREST invites you to a webinar. Meet an expert panel discussing the intersection of gender and just transition. This discussion will focus on the importance of including gender-responsive approaches in just transition and energy transition plans, ensuring these efforts bring real change and aren’t just an afterthought. Register now to participate: https://lnkd.in/g-xEWaAj 🗓️ Date: 12th December 2024 ⏰ Time: 16:00–17:00 IST Join iFOREST in advancing inclusive and transformative action! National Commission for Women - India, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, India, Suhela Khan, Suravee Nayak, Aditi Vyas, Anabella Rosemberg, Srestha Banerjee, Chandra Bhushan, Sadia Sohail, Jochen Luckscheiter, UN Women, Climate Action Network International, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH), IWWAGE - an initiative of LEAD at Krea University, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC #justtransition #gender #climateaction

🎉 What an incredible evening! It was a full house at 𝙁𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮𝙨: 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 discussion with Zubaan Books, filled with warm conversations and insightful discussions. Thank you for being part of it! Stay tuned for the recording. 💬 ✨ dolly kikon Anjuman Ara Begum Joel Rodrigues Urvashi Butalia Neivikhotso Chaya

⭕ Today the UNSG Principles on Critical Energy Transition Minerals was launched at #COP29 ⭕ ❗ some take aways: ❗ The Principles were widely welcomed and concrete steps forward were mentioned by different panel members including more circular economy ⭕ The Assistant to the UN Secretary General: ✒️ called for funding of this work ✒️ sees UNCTAD and UNEP as important bodies to implement ✒️ and wants this work to be continued in the first quarter of next year Clear is: the words need to be put into action now. See our civil society statement below. Very intersting in this context as well, is Colombia's proposal for a global agreement on minerals that was announced at #COP16 Alejandro Gonzalez Caroline Avan Juliane Kippenberg Luc Tezenas Diego MarinMichael Reckordt Teresa Hoffmann https://lnkd.in/d8F8UMpJ

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🍵 An Evening of Stories, Conversations, and High Tea 🍵 We’re excited to invite you to a cozy evening celebrating the rich and heartfelt stories from 'Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart'. 🎤 Guest Speakers: Anjuman Ara Begum dolly kikon Joel Rodrigues Neivikhotso Chaya 📅 Date: December 3, 2024 ⏰ Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM 📍 Venue: Conference Room II, Main Building, India International Centre, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi As the winter chill sets in, let’s gather for warm conversations and steaming cups of tea. Together, we’ll explore the deeply personal and socio-political tales of food from Northeast India with our wonderful panelists. This heartwarming event is brought to you by Zubaan, in collaboration with Heinrich Böll Stiftung Regional Office New Delhi and India International Centre (IIC). Come for the stories. Stay for the warmth. We’d love to see you there! #FoodJourneys #WarmConversations #NortheastIndia #BookDiscussion #Zubaan #Northeast #IIC

On November 28 and 29, Asar in partnership with Heinrich Böll Stiftung organised a consultation on Gender and Just Transition at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. On the first day we had a thought-provoking panel on framing the energy transition to be gender-just and inclusive. The discussion revolved around putting women at the centre of the just transition discourse in India and also made a case of going beyond coal and looking at all forms of informal and insecure livelihoods. This was followed by a panel on women’s work and energy transition in India in which different perspectives on women’s inclusion and participation in the labour force and in the renewable energy sector in particular was discussed in detail. Some significant gaps and possible opportunities for gender mainstreaming in livelihoods was discussed in detail. On the second day, we kickstarted with an interesting panel from the grassroots with women leaders and representatives from various parts of the country spoke about the real impacts felt from various transitions on ground. This includes the plight of women whose families are engaged in coal mines, those who are working in the gig economy, women engaged in waste related livelihoods and also those who are slowly finding a place in the renewable energy sector. We also heard from journalists on the issue through compelling stories and narratives of women who are left behind in the energy transition discourse. Our last panel focussed on investing in gender and just transition in India where we had representatives of philanthropies and funding oprganisations sharing their insights and perspectives from working and supporting individuals and organisations in the space.   The consultation was a big success as we had a room full of important voices on the issue- from women living in coal belts to journalists reporting on concerns with respect to gender just transition, researchers and academics to representatives of various CSOs working on the various intersections of the issue. In the two days, we had over a hundred participants from across 7 different states. The consultation underlined a need to create a bottom-up, feminist discourse on energy transition to ensure inclusive solutions and representation of those on the grassroots in key decisions. At the end, the participants also showed interest in collaborating and collectivising to continue working on the issue. Heinrich Boell Foundation New Delhi, India Sadia Sohail BehanBox Vinuta Gopal Neha Saigal Saumya Shrivastava Elizabeth Soby Avimuktesh Bhardwaj Ankita Bhatkhande Kankana Das #GenderandClimate #GenderJustTransition #EnergyTransition

🍵 An Evening of Stories, Conversations, and High Tea 🍵 We’re excited to invite you to a cozy evening celebrating the rich and heartfelt stories from 'Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart'. 🎤 Guest Speakers: Anjuman Ara Begum dolly kikon Joel Rodrigues Neivikhotso Chaya 📅 Date: December 3, 2024 ⏰ Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM 📍 Venue: Conference Room II, Main Building, India International Centre, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi As the winter chill sets in, let’s gather for warm conversations and steaming cups of tea. Together, we’ll explore the deeply personal and socio-political tales of food from Northeast India with our wonderful panelists. This heartwarming event is brought to you by Zubaan, in collaboration with Heinrich Böll Stiftung Regional Office New Delhi and India International Centre (IIC). Come for the stories. Stay for the warmth. We’d love to see you there! #FoodJourneys #WarmConversations #NortheastIndia #BookDiscussion #Zubaan #Northeast #IIC

The recent COP29 conference in Baku concluded with outcomes that are clearly setbacks in the pursuit of climate justice. The agreed-upon climate finance target of $300 billion annually by 2035 falls significantly short of the trillions required to effectively support vulnerable nations in mitigating and adapting to climate change. Additionally, the establishment of international carbon markets under the Paris Agreement has introduced new loopholes, potentially enabling continued fossil fuel emissions. These developments underscore the persistent challenges in achieving equitable climate action and highlight the necessity for more ambitious commitments from the global community. If you want to dive deeper in our views on the COP29 please find the link to the article our colleague Linda Schneider in the comments.