Advocacy and Events at COP29 with global women leaders from Brazil and the U.S. presenting strategies, solutions, and calls to action for climate justice and a Just Transition

For immediate release – Join the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) during the UNFCCC COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11 - 22. WECAN will be advocating with a Frontline and Indigenous Women’s Delegation to demand world governments take bold and transformative action for climate justice and climate finance. Learn more about the WECAN COP29 delegates and events here: https://www.wecaninternational.org/cop29

WECAN will be presenting policy interventions, on the ground climate justice projects, reports, and systemic change frameworks. Topics will include climate finance and the NCQG, Just Transition, fossil fuel phaseout, gender-responsive policies, Indigenous rights and knowledge, net-zero analysis, root causes and false solutions, rights of nature and biodiversity protection, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), and community-led sustainable solutions for systemic change.

Please see below for a list of the WECAN COP29 delegates. If you are interested in contacting any members of the delegation, please email katherine@wecaninternational.org:

• Casey Camp Horinek (Ponca Nation), Ponca Nation Environmental Ambassador, WECAN Board Member and Project Coordinator, Chair of the Indigenous Council for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN), United States

• Puyr Tembé (Tembé), First Secretary of State for Indigenous Peoples of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon, and co-founder of Ancestral Indigenous Women Warriors (ANMIGA), Brazil

• Osprey Orielle Lake, Executive Director, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), United States

• Taily Terena (Terena Nation), Indigenous rights activist, WECAN Coordinator in Brazil, Brazil

• Lucimara Patté (Xokleng), Co-founder of the National Association of Indigenous Women's Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA), Brazil

• Concita Sõpré (Xerente), Co-founder of the National Association of Indigenous Women's Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA), and Co-founder of the Federation of Indigenous Peoples of the State of Pará (FEPIPA), Brazil

• Dr. Frances Roberts-Gregory, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, United States

You can find full event details for the WECAN formal UN side event and press conferences below. Speaker details can be found on our website here. Recordings can be made available following the events. If you have any questions please reach out to the media contact above.

WECAN Events:

Press Conference: Indigenous Women from the Amazon: Calls for Urgent Action on the Path to COP30

Thursday, November 14, 15:00 - 15:30 AZT

Press Conference - Natavan, Blue Zone, COP29, Baku

Press Conference: Rights of Nature: A Systemic Solution to the Climate Crisis

Saturday, November 16,  17:00 - 17:30 AZT

Press Conference - Natavan, Blue Zone, COP29, Baku

Press Conference: Women Leading Fossil Fuel Phaseout and A Just Transition

Monday, November 18, 17:30 - 18:00 AZT

Press Conference - Natavan, Blue Zone, COP29, Baku

UN Side Event: Women for Climate Justice Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis

Tuesday, November 19, 13:15-14:45 AZT

Side Event Room 2, Blue Zone, COP29, Baku

Pavilion Event: Indigenous Leadership in Advocating for the Rights of Nature

Tuesday, November 19, 18:00 - 19:00 AZT

Indigenous Peoples’ Pavilion, Blue Zone, COP29, Baku

Press Conference: Women Leading a Just Transition

Wednesday, November 20, 17:00 - 17:30 AZT

Press Conference - Natavan, Blue Zone, COP29, Baku

Press Conference: Accelerating Feminist Solutions to the Climate Crisis

Thursday, November 21, 14:30 - 15:00 AZT

Press Conference - Natavan, Blue Zone, COP29, Baku

Virtual Event: Global Voices and Women-Led Calls to Action in Response to COP29

Thursday, November 21, starting at 19:00 AZT

Virtual Event, register to join us here!