Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-04-20-Speech-5-259-000"
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"The report on women and climate change undoubtedly highlights a number of important points with regard to roles played by women. For example, the use of women’s knowledge drawn from their everyday lives in order to find solutions to problems – such as the installation of toilet facilities in Indian slums – is vital. The report also outlines the gender imbalance across the world, an example being the fact that 70% of the world’s poorest are women, carrying out two-thirds of all work done. We know of these imbalances and must address them. Yet despite these points, I have voted against the report as a whole. I do not agree that climate change widens the gender imbalance. As I have expressed before in this Parliament, I am against the imposition of quotas from an EU level, particularly in terms of outside bodies. And finally, in the financial climate of today, it is important that we concentrate what limited funding we have on combating climate change itself, rather than on funding women’s groups in the area of climate change when, in fact, there is no need to do so."@en1
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