New website: gender and sustainability

Environment and sustainability policy is not gender neutral. Therefore LIFE e.V. Germany has started a new gender and sustainable development website.

11.03.2004 |Sascha Gabizon

Environment and sustainability policy is not gender neutral. While this may seem obvious, one will find a fundamental lack of understanding in policymaking and society with regards to this statement. Initiative, commitment, research and networking are needed to overcome the resistances. www.genanet.de.

Genanet considers gender justice an indispensible prerequisite for sustainable development. genanet has been created to raise awareness of gender equity in environment and sustainability policy and to integrate it into research, policymaking and the activities of environmental organisations. genanet will prepare position statements on recent environment and sustainable development issues, discuss strategies to implement gender mainstreaming, and will put structures in place to allow effective lobbying of environment policy decisions from a gender perspective.