ONE PLANET NETWORK FORUM

For A Sustainable Planet
and a just world

12-13 SEPT 2024


MUSEU DO AMANHÃ / ‘MUSEUM OF TOMORROW’,
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

REDUCING INEQUALITIES AND ACHIEVING JUST TRANSITIONS FOR ALL THROUGH SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION INCLUDING THROUGH CIRCULAR ECONOMY.

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PLENARY I

 

Auditorium (MDA) Achieving women's economic empowerment through sustainable consumption and production. 

Description:

Women economic empowerment is defined as “women’s ability to participate equally in existing markets; their access to and control over productive resources, access to decent work, control over their own time, lives and bodies; and increased voice, agency and meaningful participation in economic decision-making at all levels from the household to international institutions”.

UN Women defines economic empowerment is a transformative, collective process through which economic systems become just, equitable and prosperous, and all women enjoy their economic and social rights, exercise agency and power in ways that challenge inequalities and level the playing field, and gain equal rights and access to, ownership of and control over resources, assets, income, time and their own lives. Women’s economic empowerment builds on three elements:  

  1. Ensuring women’s equal rights and access to, ownership and control over resources (natural and productive),  
  2. Strengthening their ability to make decisions about their own lives and to start and run an enterprise, 
  3. Changing the social, economic and institutional systems in which they operate2. 

Changes to all three are required to transform women’s status and achieve gender equality. Enabling women’s economic empowerment and realizing women’s economic and social rights and economic and social autonomy has multiple corollary impacts – in many contexts, gender-based violence is reduced, sexual and reproductive health and rights are strengthened, political and social participation and leadership are increased, and disaster risk reduction and recovery are facilitated, among others.3 

Speakers

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Ms. Rosângela Lula da Silva

First Lady Brazil

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H.E. Maria Eloisa Rojas

Minister of Environment of Chile

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Ms. Izabella Teixeira

Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel

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Ms. Fiza Farhan

Member of the UN Secretary-General’s first High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment 

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Ms. Tarcila Rivera Zea 

Member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 

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Ms. Banji Chona

Inkaya, Zambia 

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Ms. Sissi Alves da Silva 

General Coordinator of Bioeconomy and Circular Economy at the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services in Brazil 

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Ms. Fabiana Caricati

Managing Director of Anavilhanas Jungle Lodge & Villa Amazônia Hotelaria 

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Ms. Aline Sousa da Silva

President, Recyclable Materials Cooperative (CENTCOOP)

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Ms. Fabienne Pierre

10YFP / OPN Secretariat, UNEP 

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Ms. Elisa Tonda

Chief, Resources and Market Branch, Industry and Economy Division, UNEP  

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Ms. Elizabeth Nichols

Foreign Affairs Officer, Office of Environmental Quality and Transboundary Issues, Bureau of Oceans and International Environment and Science Affairs, U.S. Department of State, USA

Agenda:

Plenary session 

Achieving women’s economic empowerment through sustainable consumption and production

 

 

15’ 

Opening remarks 

 

  • Ms. Rosângela Lula da Silva, First Lady Brazil (TBC)  

  • H.E. Maria Eloisa Rojas, Minister of Environment of Chile (TBC) 

 

 

50’ 

Panel Discussion  

Sharing initiatives, experience and best practices on how the transition to SCP can concretely enable women’s economic empowerment, while addressing the challenge of gender inequalities (governments, businesses and whole-of-society)  

 

 

Moderator: Ms. Izabella Teixeira, Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel (tbc) 

 

Panellists: 

  • Ms. Fiza Farhan (Pakistan), a High-Level Panel Member of the UN Secretary-General’s first High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment 

  • Ms. Tarcila Rivera Zea (Peru) – Member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 

  • Ms. Banji Chona, Inkaya, Zambia 

  • Ms. Sissi Alves da Silva (Brazil), General Coordinator of Bioeconomy and Circular Economy at the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services in Brazil 

  • Ms. Fabiana Caricati, Managing Director of Anavilhanas Jungle Lodge & Villa Amazônia Hotelaria 

  • Ms. Aline Sousa da Silva, President, Recyclable Materials Cooperative (in Portuguese, CENTCOOP) 

 

15’ 

UN inter-agency dialogue 

Reflections on the panel’s conclusions and the role of the UN system to support women’s economic empowerment through SCP  

 

Moderator: Ms. Fabienne Pierre, 10YFP / OPN Secretariat, UNEP  

  • Ms. Elisa Tonda, Chief, Resources and Market Branch, Industry and Economy Division, UNEP  

  • Dr. Jemimah Njuki, Chief of Economic Empowerment, UN Women (TBC) 

10’ 

Wrap up and Closing remarks 

  • Ms. Elizabeth Nichols, Foreign Affairs Officer, Office of Environmental Quality and Transboundary Issues, Bureau of Oceans and International Environment and Science Affairs, U.S. Department of State, USA (TBC) 

Take Part:

Attend:

Museu do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow) Rio de Janeiro. 

Online:

Join the live session stream online, and watch the youtube upload after the event

Contact:

For further queries, please contact the session liaison:

Fabienne Pierre

fabienne.pierre@un.org

  

 

 

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