Report on UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
NYC, July 10-17, 2023
Hajnal Minger
During several of the presentations I realized that helping third country women has not only gender equity benefits. It also has benefits with climate change mitigation, poverty reduction, resource management and many other fringe benefits.
One simple way to do just that is to provide the means for truly green cooking with solar cookers. Green cooking itself has multiple benefits such as emission reduction, energy conservation, greater financial independence, and health benefits. And with such small contributions as a single solar light, we can further improve upon woman’s lives and social standing.
The other big takeaway for me is the power of cooperation. Intercultural and international cooperation can have tremendous benefits. Not reinventing the wheels every time saves valuable and scarce resources and the conversations make for greater understanding among participants.
The takeaway from the Romanian Embassy discussion is, that finding the willing participants and praising the small but significant progress that has taken place in the last decades can lead to promises of collaborations and greater data collection. We all know, that without good quality data there can be no accountability.
There was also a request from the Women’s Major delegation on providing national framework for abortion service availability and pricing.