10 Indicators from the Global Gender Gap, referring in particular to economic participation and opportunity, on the one hand, and political empowerment on the other, show depressingly low figures for women in Sub-Sahara Africa, the Middle East, and North African countries (below 0.5 with reference to economic participation, 0.2 with reference to political empowerment) and reveal an enormous disparity with respect to men.
11  the United Nations’ Program for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UNREDD) – which aims to make it more economic to conserve and manage forest resources correctly than to deplete them. 7  A review can be found in the volume published by UNEP (United Nations Environmental Program), 2004, Women and the Environment.