IMPLEMENTING THE DECLARATION OF THE

 60TH ANNUAL DPI/NGO CONFERENCE

WORKING GROUP ON STREAMLINING CLIMATE CHANGE AND GENDER

(Participants and Coordinators)

                          Tara DePorte

Phone: 1(212)477-4022, Email:  tara@lesecologycenter.org.  Web: www.lesecologycenter.org

Lower East Side Ecology Center, The Climate Project, New York City Climate Coalition, USA

tara@lesecologycenter.org  and +1(212)477-4022   www.lesecologycenter.org, www.nycclimate.org     Biography on Ms DePorte.

Genanet,  Director of genanet - focal point gender, justice, sustainability, which aims to integrate gender justice within environmental and sustainability policies. Her primary areas of responsibility are gender issues in energy and climate change.

roehr@life-online.de  and www.genanet.de

As an indigenous leader I have worked on social political and economic issues relating to climate change and its impact on biodiversity and human life for a over a decade on the ground at national and international forums. The value of my work is primarily in bringing the real concerns and ideas from the ground to share in international spaces and in informing communities affected by climate change of the political decisions being made to address these concerns so that they can better develop their own coping and survival strategies. I try to focus my work on the the most vulnerable sections of indigenous communities, who are also those on whom the future of our peoples' depends in a special way, women, young people and children.

anarchive.anon@gmail.com 

Chairman, DESI Power

hari.sharan@bluewin.ch, aklavya@desipower.com

Head, Team of Youth & Children, UNEP National Committee for the Republic of Korea
TUNZA North East Asia Youth Environment Network

HyunJin Jeon was majored in International Study and International Environment Issues inculding environment law and governance are her interests. She is working as programme coordinator in UNEP national committee for the Republic of Korea and providing enviornmental education programmes and networking youth led organizations in Korea and Asia and the Pacific.

jeon@unep.or.kr","jeon@unep.or.kr, jeonjeon@gmail.com

South Asia Social Initiatives.(SASI)   wastekinetics@gmail.com

Executive Director, Women's Environmental and Development Organization

June@wedo.org

Gender and Disaster Network  kristinne.sanz@unn.ac.uk

Fellow, Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University   

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt has a wide experience on issues related to gender, water and development. She has written articles, edited books, set up the Gender water Network for the Asia Pacific region at The Australian National University, and is a member of the Steering Committee of GWA.

klahiridutt@gmail.com

Technical Adviser, Coastal Development Partnership (CDP), masumcdp@yahoo.com

Gender and Disaster Network   Maureen.fordham@blueyonder.co.uk

Head of KAN Centre for Environment and Development Board member of Women and Environments International Magazine.

Dr. Olga Speranskaya has over 10 year experience in public sector dealing with international and domestic policy and project development related to broad scale issues of climate change, environment and sustainable development and public advocacy. Her main interest is in the field of raising awareness on benefits and cost of climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries and economies in transition. She is the author of educational materials on climate change and participated as a team leader in a number of campaigns on climate change mitigation.

speransk2004@mail.ru; info@kanced.org

Environment Partnership   pakpingchalad@yahoo.com

CEO WICO International

 I am a Cameroonian Geologist and Gender Ambassador of the Gender and Water Alliance, (GWA) the Netherlands. I have over 16 years experience working in the field of water and environmental education and Management. 
I believe women across the world can make a significant change in addressing Climate change issues and I wish to work in collaboration with women across the world to make this change and seek for a susatainable world. 

rosembone@gmail.com

Centre for Global Environment Research The Energy and Resources Institute Darbari Seth Block, India Habitat Centre   suruchib@teri.res.in

Bolivian Wildlife Society.

I am a environmental activist from Bolivia who has been working also for women´s and indigenous peoples rights. I am the president of Bolivian Wildlife Society, an NGO that has been very active in Climate Changes. I also have been writing on environmental issues since 1986. I published 12 books sustainable development and related issues.

tflores@acelerate.com

Institute for Sustainable Development and Research, Dr.Lalit P.Chaudhari is Ph.D. in Environmental management with 20 years professional experience in Engineering and
technology.   

clkp123@yahoo.com

rjaa_ali@yahoo.com

Executive Director, LEAD (Learning,Education & Advocacy in Development)

WatSan and Infrastruture Advisor,CARE International in Pakistan

I am a Water Resources, and sdanitation specialist and am currently working as Water Supply and Sanitation Advisor with the CARE International in Pakistan. Besides, I am also providing my voluntary services in the sector to various other orgaizations and some local NGOs. My experties are:

1. Water Resources and the influence ofclimate change on it.
2. Drinking Water Supply (Quality and Quantity management).
3. Mainstreaming women and children's role in management of WatSan projects.
4. WatSan and Water Resources development for poverty and disparity alleviation.
5. Economics of WatSan and Water Resources Development interventions.

nmuhammad@careinternational.org.pk

Related sites:, ACC Strategy:, http://www.accstrategy.org, Bionergy Future Group: 
http://www.bioenergyfg.org,  UNCRD Gender in CBDM, http://www.hyogo.uncrd.or.jp/cbdm/cbdm.htm

Joined the Abrupt Climate Change Strategy international expert workshop in Paris (which was convened with the support of the UNF Better World Fund and the encouragement of former IPCC Chairman Robert Watson) on sustainable bioenergy carbon sequestration cycles as organizational and editorial assistant. Have convened workshops in Washington DC with BP Solaar, ExxonMobil, NEDO, ESMAP and in Hangzhou, China with the National Clean Energy Laboratory, National Bamboo Institute, etc. as well as working experience with the International Network for Small Hydropower and currently with the UNCRD as part of the Gender in Community Based Disaster Management research team. Will organize a side event in Kobe in time with the G8 Environmental Ministers' conference in May 2008.

sumotoe@hotmail.co.jp

International Consulting Practice, Senior Fellow, University for Peace

nterdisciplinary educator, author, program developer, and evaluator with extensive field experience advancing women?s leadership and sustainable development. Principal Facilitator responsible for design and organization of Dutch-funded international conference, ?Climate Change and Vulnerability? held at the Peace Palace of The Hague (2006). Recently served as evaluator of climate change and adaptation projects for UNEP (2007), and previously served as the Director of a Gates Foundation global women?s leadership program (2001-2004). Publications address climate change and advance women's leadership, including "Transforming power relations: A systems approach to capacity building for ecological security." In Oxfam Journal and book: Gender, Development and Climate Change, London: Oxfam.

maryjolarson@mac.com

Regional Manager, Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Fund Development Board

rameshksharma@gmail.com

Reader, Science Communicator, Advanced Research Department of Zoology, Yadava College

An academician, researcher and an extensive worker from a natural science – zoology background with academic and research leading skills. A wide range of expertise gained over 28 years within two separate institutions. Experience of fish toxicology and water related researches with good teaching and leadership skill. 

navaraj678@sify.com