Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Myanmar invites everyone to join an international female leaders’ climate justice online forum on March 15, 2022
The Climate Justice Leaders Forum to be hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the nongovernmental organization (NGO) the Foundation of Women’s Rights Promotion and Development (FWRPD) will take place online at 8:30 p.m. Taipei time (7:00 p.m. Yangon time) on March 15, 2022. The event will be broadcast live simultaneously on MOFA’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/mofa.gov.tw/ and YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/taiwan2theworld/. All are welcome to tune in.
This year’s Forum corresponds with the annual meeting in March of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The focus of the 66th session of CSW (CSW66) this year is achieving gender equality within the context of climate change.
High-profile speakers from the Americas, Europe, and Asia will be taking part in the webinar. The agenda is divided into a forum with political leaders, keynote speeches, and a dialogue with NGO leaders.
In the "Keynote Speeches" session, Michelle Wu, the first female mayor of Boston in the United States is invited to deliver a pre-recorded speech. She will share her Green New Deal from the perspective of city-to-city cooperation. Mayor Wu is the second generation of Taiwanese immigrants, and her election victorying 2021 has attracted national attention in the U.S. The content of her speech on the cooperation between cities of Taiwan and of the United States is certainly worthy of international attention.
At the political leaders’ forum, Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua will outline Taiwan’s policies and measures to enhance women’s participation in promoting clean energy. Former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales Baroness Natalie Bennett and Marshall Islands Minister of Education, Sports and Training Kitlang Kabua will also share their experiences. The NGO leaders’ dialogue will involve Founder and Executive Director of the US Human Impacts Institute Tara DePorte, Executive Director of the Palau Ebiil Society Ann K. Singeo, and Taiwanese climate activist Wang Hsuan-ju. The three women will share their journeys in fighting global warming.
The Forum is part of the Taiwan Gender Equality Week (TGEW); other programs include a Women’s Power Night reception on International Women’s Day with President Tsai Ing-wen as a guest speaker and assisting Taiwanese NGOs to hold parallel meetings at the NGO CSW Forum.
For further information, please logon to the 2022 TGEW website: https://www.tgew.org/ （E）
THE AGENDA *All times below given in (GMT+8/Taipei time)
| March 15th Tuesday 2022 | |
| Time (GMT +8) | Agenda |
| 20:30-20:35 | OpeningModerator：Denise Scotto, Vice President of International Federation of Women in Legal Careers (FIFCJ) |
| 20:35-21:05(30 minutes) | Keynote Speeches and Dialogue: Advancing women’s participation in climate decisions
While there has been progress when it comes to women’s participation in climate decisions, it is still slow and uneven. Women and girls are still severely underrepresented. In this session, we will explore what strategies have they adopted to deal with those challenges in Taiwan, U.K. and Marshall Islands. Speakers: - Minister Mei-Hua Wang, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan - Natalie Louise Bennett, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle, Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales - Kitlang Kabua, Minister for Education, Sports, and Training for the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) |
| 21:05-21:20(15 minutes) | Power Talks- Michelle Wu, Mayor of Boston, U.S.
- Sophia Cheng, Chair of Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC) & Chief Investment Officer of Cathay Financial Holdings |
| 21:20-22:00(40 minutes) | Panel Discussion: Mobilizing people for climate justiceWomen-led grassroot organizations are the center of climate justice movements. In this session, we will highlight different examples of innovative climate actions from Asia Pacific
Panelists: - Tara Deporte, Founder and Executive Director of Human Impacts Institute (HII), U.S. - Ann K. Singeo, Executive Director of Ebiil Society, Palau - Shiuan Ru Wang, Young Climate Activist, Taiwan |
| 22:00 | Closing |
