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2021 GLOBAL WOMEN'S ASSEMBLY FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE - Conference Details & Recordings

  • Writer: Women's Earth and Climate Action Network
    Women's Earth and Climate Action Network
  • Jan 1, 2022
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2021 GLOBAL WOMEN'S ASSEMBLY FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE

Solutions from the Frontlines and the Protection and Defense of Human Rights and Nature

SEPTEMBER 25 - 30, 2021

Every day from 1:00pm — 5:30pm Eastern Time, USA



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We are not waiting!

In the context of diverse peoples' movements continuing to organize and rise-up in advance of the UN Climate Talks in Glasgow and other international gatherings over the next critical years, the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International is organizing the ‘Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Solutions from the Frontlines and the Protection and Defense of Human Rights and Nature’, a free, gender-diverse, public forum to take place virtually September 25-30, 2021, in parallel to the UN General Assembly.


​During the Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice, grassroots, Indigenous, Black, Brown, and frontline women leaders, global advocates, and policy-makers will join together in solidarity to speak out against environmental and social injustice, draw attention to root causes of multiple interlocking crises, and present the diverse array of visions, projects, policy frameworks and strategies with which they are working to shape a healthy and equitable world. The Assembly is an inclusive space across identities and the gender spectrum.


​The climate crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, and socio-ecological injustices have emerged from interconnected systems of capitalism, racism, the commodification of nature, colonialism, imperialism, and patriarchy. To confront these deepening crises and accelerate a path forward, we need to have collective coherence to address the protection and defense of human rights and nature, and uphold community-led solutions.


​Within this struggle, women and feminists must stand at the forefront of policy-making and action. Due to unequal gender norms globally, women are simultaneously the most adversely impacted by climate change and socio-ecological degradation, and yet are indispensable actors and leaders of just and effective solutions Assembly topics will include the intersectionality of gender, racial and environmental justice; Indigenous rights and resistance efforts; the just transition to renewable, regenerative energy; feminist global policy; women and forest protection and regeneration; fossil fuel resistance campaigns; agro-ecology/farming/soils; environmental racism; feminist care economics and policy agendas; rights of nature; challenging corporate power; and women and feminist leadership across all sectors.


​The Assembly will call for urgent action within a climate justice framework with a formal Call to Action and produce an online collection of actions, policy frameworks, and solutions presented at the Assembly to be delivered to global governments, financial institutions and media outlets.


The voices, analysis and leadership of global women and feminist leaders are critical to the years ahead, and as we head into one of the most important climate negotiations since the Paris Climate Agreement, the UN Climate Talks in Glasgow. Please join us for this high-level assembly to learn more about how to get involved in ongoing climate actions and solutions as we work collectively and urgently to build the resilient and just future we know is possible.



Recordings

Please find recordings for each day of the Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice available on YouTube and Facebook at the links below:


DAY 1 - SEPTEMBER 25, 2021 - Watch on YouTube  or Facebook

DAY 2 - SEPTEMBER 26, 2021 - Watch on YouTube  or Facebook

DAY 3 - SEPTEMBER 27, 2021 - Watch on YouTube  or Facebook

DAY 4 - SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 - Watch on YouTube  or Facebook

DAY 5 - SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 - Watch on YouTube  or Facebook

DAY 6 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 - Watch on YouTube  or Facebook


Please see the full assembly schedule below. Speakers to date are included in the schedule.

Schedule

DAY 1 - SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

1:00 PM — OPENING COMMENTS & WELCOME

Indigenous-led Welcome by  Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation), Environmental Ambassador and Board Member, WECAN, USA

Opening Comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Assembly Convener, Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), USA

1:20 PM — NO GREENWASHING: REJECTING FALSE SOLUTIONS TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Speakers:

Kandi White (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara) | Native Energy & Climate Campaign Director, Indigenous Environmental Network, USA

Silvia Ribeiro | Latin America Director, ETC Group, Mexico

Åsa Larsson-Blind (Saami) |  Saami Council Vice President, Samerådet, Sweden

Rita Uwaka | Forest & Biodiversity Program Coordinator, Friends of the Earth Africa (FoEA), Nigeria

Cindy Wiesner | Executive Director, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, USA

2:30 PM — WOMEN FOR FORESTS: PROTECTING FORESTS, CLIMATE AND COMMUNITIES

Speakers:

Sônia Bone Guajajara (Guajajara) | Executive Coordinator, Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), BrazilNeema Namadamu | SAFECO and WECAN Democratic Republic of Congo Coordinator, DR CongoKari Ames (Tlingit) | WECAN Indigenous Representatives in the Tongass Forest, Alaska, USA

Helena Gualinga (Kichwa) | Climate and Indigenous Rights Youth Activist, Sarayaku, EcuadorDevi Anggraini | President, PEREMPUAN AMAN, IndonesiaIsis Alvarez | Colombian Biologist and Senior Gender Advisor and Unsustainable Livestock Campaign Coordinator, Global Forest Coalition (GFC), Colombia

3:50 PM — FEMINIST FRAMEWORKS FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE JUSTICE

Speakers:

Noelene Nabulivou | Co-founder/Director, DIVA for Equality, Fiji

Rosa Moiwend (Member of the Malind Anim tribe from Merauke, West Papua) | Co-Founder, Make West Papua Safe Campaign (MWPS), Feminist and Human Rights Defender, West Papua, New Guinea (she/her)

Lucy Mulenkei (Maasai) | Executive Director, Indigenous Information Network, Kenya

Sascha Gabizon | Executive Director, WECF, Netherlands Dipti Bhatnagar | International Program Coordinator for Climate Justice and Energy, FoE International, MozambiqueBridget Burns | Executive Director, WEDO, USA

4:50 PM — IN CONVERSATION: DR. JANE GOODALL

Join Dr. Jane Goodall, Conservationist, Humanitarian, and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute in conversation with Helena Gualinga (Kichwa),Youth climate activist from the Ecuadorian Amazon, and Osprey Orielle Lake, Assembly Convener and WECAN Executive Director.

DAY 2 - SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

1:00 PM — OPENING COMMENTS & WELCOME

Opening Comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Assembly Convener, Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), USA 

1:10 PM — DIVESTMENT MOVEMENTS FOR STOPPING FOSSIL FUELS AND DEFORESTATION

Speakers:

Michelle Cook (Dine'/Navajo) | Human Rights Lawyer, Founder, Divest Invest Protect, USA

Hannah Greep | Human Rights Campaigner, BankTrack, NetherlandsCasey Camp-Horinek ( Ponca Nation) | Environmental Ambassador, WECAN Board Member, USALeila Salazar-López | Executive Director, Amazon Watch, USA

Natalie Isaacs | Founder, One Million Women, Australia

2:20 PM — BUILDING A HEALTHY & THRIVING FUTURE: FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

Speakers:

Ernestine Leikeki | Founding Member, Board Chair, and Women Empowerment Officer, Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch (CAMGEW), Cameroon

Monique Verdin (Houma Nation) | Director, The Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange; and Indigenous Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator, WECAN, USA Yoon Geum-soon | Former Member, International Coordinating Committee of La Via Campesina (LVC), and Advisor and Former President, the Korean Women Peasants Association (KWPA), Republic of Korea

Eugenia Vigil Escalera | Field team, Social and Economic Development of Indigenous Mexicans (DESMI), Chiapas, Mexico

Kahea Pacheco (Kanaka 'Ōiwi) | Co-Director, Women's Earth Alliance (WEA), USA

Leonida Odongo | Coordinator, Haki Nawiri Afrika, Kenya

3:40 PM — IMPLEMENTING THE ESCAZU AGREEMENT: WOMEN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE DEFENSE OF NATURE IN LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN

Speakers:

Patricia Gualinga (Kichwa) | Indigenous leader from Sarayaku, Spokeswoman, Mujeres Amazónicas Defensoras de la Selva, EcuadorAndrea Sanhueza | Public Representative for the Escazú Agreement, Chile To be confirmed

María Luisa Rafael (Quechua) | Indigenous Leader and Human Rights and Environmental activist, Bolivia

Patricia Madrigal Cordero | Former Vice-Minister of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica, Costa Rica

Ruth Spencer | Deputy Chair, Marine Ecosystems Protected Areas (MEPA) Trust, Antigua and Barbuda

Taily Terena (Terena Nation) | Indigenous rights activist, Brazil To be confirmedCarmen Capriles | Founder, Reacción Climática, WECAN Coordinator for Latin America, Bolivia

DAY 3 - SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

1:00 PM — OPENING COMMENTS & WELCOME

Opening Comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Assembly Convener, Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), USA 

1:10 PM — INTERSECTIONAL MOVEMENT BUILDING FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE

Speakers:

Ruth Nyambura | Kenyan Activist, African Ecofeminist Collective, Kenya

Dalia Fernanda Márquez Añez | Founder, Juventud Unida en Acción (JUENA), VenezuelaColette Pichon Battle, Esq. | Executive Director, Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy, USATetet Lauron | Advisor for the United Nations Programme, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, The Philippines

2:00 PM — GENDERED AND RACIAL IMPACTS OF THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY IN NORTH AMERICA AND COMPLICIT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Speakers to date:

Rosanna Esparza | Community Organizer and Environmental and Public Health Researcher, Kern County California/USA

Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation) | Founder, Giniw Collective, USA

Sharon Lavigne | Environmental activist and Founder and President of RISE St. James, USA

Dr. Adrienne Hollis PhD, JD | Principal and Founder, Hollis Environmental Consulting, USA

2:50 PM — NOURISHING SYSTEMIC CHANGE: FUNDING AT THE NEXUS OF GENDER AND CLIMATE

Speakers:

Melanie Allen | Co-Director, Hive Fund, USA

Alejandra Helbein | Women and Territory Program, Urgent Action Fund, International, Colombia

Sandile Ndelu | Interim Co-Manager, Communications & Advocacy Lead, FRIDA Fund, South AfricaTamara Toles O’Laughlin |  President and CEO, Environmental Grantmakers Association, USA

Justin Winters | Co-Founder & Executive Director, One Earth, USA

Moderation by Nina Simons, Co-Founder & Chief Relationship Strategist, Bioneers, USA

4:00 PM — REGENERATIVE AND JUST ENERGY FOR ALL

Speakers:

Dr. Aytakin Asgarova | Founder, Indigenius Global LLC, Azerbaijan

Olasimbo Sojinrin | Nigeria Country Director, Solar Sister, Nigeria

Suzanne Singer (Diné) | Director, Native Renewables, USA

Margaret Kwateng | National Green New Deal Organizer, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, USA

4:45 PM — KEYNOTE: NAOMI KLEIN

Keynote by Naomi Klein, Award-winning Journalist and New York Times Bestselling Author, Canada

DAY 4 - SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

1:00 PM — OPENING COMMENTS & WELCOME

Opening Comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Assembly Convener, Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), USA 

1:10 PM — GLOBAL VOICES AND INITIATIVES FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE

Speakers:

Hilda Heine | Senator and Former President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Marshall IslandsMary Robinson | Former President of Ireland, Ireland

Dessima Williams | Grenadian Diplomat and Former Ambassador to the United Nations from Grenada, Grenada

Jody Williams |  Nobel Peace Laureate, Co-founder, the Nobel Women’s Initiative, USATzeporah Berman | Chair, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, Canada

Moderation by: Antonia Juhasz, Author, Investigative Journalist, Analyst, USA

2:30 PM — OCEANS, FRESHWATER AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Speakers:

Aya M Rahil Naseem | Marine Biologist, Co-Founder and Vice President, The Maldives Coral Institute, The Maldives

Charlene Aleck (Tsleil Waututh Nation) | Elected Councillor for Tsleil Waututh Nation, Canada

Fadoua Brour | Co-Coordinator for the Middle East/North African Region, WECAN, MoroccoMaude Barlow | Founding Member of the Council of Canadians, Co-Founder, the Blue Planet Project, Turtle Island/CanadaVasser Seydel |  Deep Sea-mining Campaign Manager, The Oxygen Project, USA

Kisha Muana | Ocean Campaigner, Biologist, Researcher, Greenpeace Philippines, The Philippines

3:40 PM — ON FIRE! YOUNG ACTIVISTS LEADING THE WAY

Speakers to date:

Mitzi Jonelle Tan | Convenor and International Spokesperson, Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines (YACAP), The Philippines

Rosario Diaz Garavito | Founder and CEO, The Millennials Movement, Peru

Brianna Fruean | Samoan Climate Change Activist, Pacific Climate Warriors, New Zealand

Ruth Łchav’aya K’isen Miller (Curyung Tribe of Dena’ina Athabaskan) | Climate Justice Director, Native Movement, USA

Moderation and comments by Niria Alicia Garcia, UN Young Champion of the Earth 2020, Run4Salmon Prayer, USA

4:50 PM — KEYNOTE: KATHY JETÑIL-KIJINER 

Comments and Poetry Performance by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Poet, Performance Artist, Educator, and Climate Envoy for the Marshall Islands, Marshall Islands

DAY 5 - SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

1:00 PM — SPECIAL OPENING: DR. JULIA KIM

Musical Performance by Dr. Julia Kim, Program Director, Gross National Happiness (GNH) Centre, Bhutan

Opening Comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Assembly Convener, Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), USA 

1:10 PM — FEMINIST AND CARE ECONOMIES FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET

Speakers:

Titi Soentoro | Executive Director, Aksi! for gender, social and ecological justice, Indonesia

Dr. Julia Kim | Program Director, Gross National Happiness (GNH) Centre, BhutanRauna Kuokkanen (Sápmi) | Research Professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies, The University of Lapland, FinlandJackie Fielder (Two Kettle Lakota and Hidatsa) | Co-founder, San Francisco Public Bank

Coalition, USA

Dr. Shalini Grover | Research Fellow for Global Economies of Care, International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, United Kingdom

Irene HongPing Shen | Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED), USA

2:25 PM — LEADING FOSSIL FUEL RESISTANCE AND PROTECTING WATER

Speakers:

Kanahus Manuel (Secwepemc and Ktunaxa) | Tiny House Warriors, Canada

Moira Ivana Millán (Mapuche and Weychafe) | Founder and Coordinator, Indigenous Women's Movement for Good Living, Argentina

Tania Aubid (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) | Water Protector fighting to stop the Line 3 Pipeline, USA

Mie Asaoka | President, Kiko Network, Japan

Simone Senogles (Anishinaabe) | Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator, Leadership Team, Indigenous Environmental Network, USA

3:40 PM — RIGHTS OF NATURE: PROTECTING AND DEFENDING THE PLACES WE LIVE

Speakers:

Shannon Biggs | Co-Founder, Movement Rights, USA

Jacinta Ruru (Maori, Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui) | Faculty of Law, University of Otago, New Zealand

4:25 PM — REMATRIATING THE LAND: INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY AND THE LAND BACK MOVEMENT

Speakers:

Jade Begay (Diné / Tesuque Pueblo) | Climate Justice Campaign Director, NDN Collective, USA

Corrina Gould (Lisjan Ohlone) | Co-Founder and Co-Director, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, USA

Jennifer Wickham (Gidimt’en, Cas Yikh) | Media Manager for Gidimt'en Checkpoint, Canada

Moderation and Comments by Nadya Tannous (Palestinian) | LANDBACK Organizer, NDN Collective

DAY 6 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

1:00 PM — OPENING COMMENTS & WELCOME

Opening Comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Assembly Convener, Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), USA 

1:10 PM — MEDIA VISIBILITY OF WOMEN'S CLIMATE LEADERSHIP

Speakers:

Amy Goodman | Host and Executive Producer of Democracy Now!, USA

Andrea Ixchiu Hernández (Mayan, K’iche’ Territory) | Filmmaker and Journalist, Guatemala 

Antonia Juhasz | Author, Investigative Journalist, Analyst, USAKarina Gonzalez | Women Speak Programs Coordinator, WECAN, USA

Rachel Ramirez | Climate Writer, CNN, USA

Moderation and Comments by Markeya Thomas, Communications Strategist, WECAN, USA

2:10 PM — WE ACT FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW | PART 1

Speakers to date:

Monica Atkins | Co-Executive Director, Climate Justice Alliance (CJA), USA

Bindu Bhandari | Program Associate, Climate Interactive, NepalIndia Logan-Riley (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga) | Co-Founder, Te Ara Whatu, New Zealand

Alexandra Narvaez (Sinangoe) | Kofan Leader, EcuadorSunita Narain | Director General, The Centre for Science and Environment, India

Diana Duarte | Director of Policy and Strategic Engagement, MADRE, USA

3:20 PM — WE ACT FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW | PART 2

Speakers:

Eriel Deranger (Dënesųłiné, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation) | Executive Director, Indigenous Climate Action, Canada

Josefina Skerk (Sami) | Advocate for Sami rights and former Vice President of the Sami Parliament, SwedenJacqui Patterson | Founder and Executive Director, The Chisholm Legacy Project, USABhumika Muchhala | Decolonial and Feminist Political Economist, Political Economist & Policy Analyst, Third World Network, Brooklyn, USA

Thilmeeza Hussain | Ambassador, and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, The Maldives

Casey Camp Horinek (Ponca Nation) | Environmental Ambassador and Board Member, WECAN, USA

4:50 PM — CLOSING SESSION

Closing Comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Assembly Convener, Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), USA

4:50 PM — MUSICAL PERFORMANCE

Musical Performance by Niria Alicia Garcia (Xicana Indigena), UN Young Champion of the Earth 2020, Run4Salmon Prayer, USA and Desirae Harp (Mishewal Wappo), Run4Salmon Prayer, USA

Call to Action

A Call to Action from the Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Solutions from the Frontlines and the Protection and Defense of Human Rights and Nature

An inclusive space across identities and the gender spectrum

September 25 - 30, 2021

Descargue la declaración del Llamado a la acción en español aquí.


To Country Leaders, Policymakers and Financial Institutions:

 

The science is clear: we must keep global warming below 1.5°Celsius to preserve a liveable planet for ourselves and future generations.1  

We are speaking out on behalf of growing, diverse movements for global climate justice.

 

We are speaking out in recognition of the sacred interdependence of all life on Earth, and with the knowledge that business-as-usual economic models predicated on fossil fuel extraction have ushered in an era of unprecedented planetary distress, in which life as we know it is perilously threatened.

 

This call to action is necessary in that the new IPCC Sixth Assessment Report affirms that climate change is unequivocally caused by humans and issues the dire warning that current government commitments will not keep global warming below 1.5° Celsius.2

 

We call on governments and financial institutions at COP26 and beyond to steadfastly commit to keep global warming below 1.5° Celsius, as stated in the Paris Agreement, via policies that simultaneously prioritize social, racial and economic justice for all.3 As the COVID-19 pandemic has tragically demonstrated, our current global system entrenches many structural inequities in access to power, resources, opportunities and well-being that determine the life prospects for people around the world. It has never been more clear that the global climate response must address these inequities.

 

In order to do this, we are calling for a transformation of how we relate to the natural world and to one another. We must transition from an extractivist, colonial paradigm of exploit, extract and decimate to a sustainable, globally-conscious one of respect, restore and replenish.  Consumption needs to be reduced as we prioritize circular economies and regenerative systems.

 

We must rapidly halt the extraction of oil, gas, and coal and end all deforestation while building a new economy predicated on community-led solutions. As we herald in sustainable, democratic and equitable governance paradigms, we need to prioritize the leadership and well-being of women, gender non-conforming people,  Black and Brown communities , and Indigenous peoples who are disproportionately impacted by climate change, but also lead the frontlines of systemic solutions. Moreover, we must redress the historical and current harms of racialized labor and resource exploitation. It is also vital to  ensure dignified conditions of work and care for all. 

 

We must also recognize the inalienable rights and invaluable traditional knowledge of Indigenous Peoples, and follow their environmental justice leadership in all climate solutions. We are calling for the protection of biodiversity, seed sovereignty, and food security, as well as for respect for the rights of nature, including the forests, oceans, rivers and lands upon which all life depends.

 

False solutions, such as natural gas, dangerous nuclear power plants, mega-dams, geo-engineering, bioenergy, forest offsets, carbon trading schemes, and carbon capture and storage have no place in any climate action plan.4 Rather, it is imperative that governments and financial institutions adopt Just Transition policies and frameworks.5

 

We call on all governments to respect the right of freedom of expression and peaceful protest, and to immediately halt the criminalization of land defenders, whose efforts are central to a climate-just world.

 

We are calling for action from both governments and the financial sector, as these entities work in tandem and each one enables the actions and policies of the other. Accordingly, this document includes both Action Steps for Governments and Action Steps for Financial Institutions.

 

We Can Act Now. We Must Act Now.


Action Steps for Governments

 

1. End Fossil Fuel Expansion and Rapidly Accelerate a Just Transition to 100% Renewable and Regenerative Energy 

It is imperative that governments align their actions with the Paris Agreement target of keeping global warming at or below 1.5° C. To do so, policymakers must immediately halt the extraction, expansion, and burning of fossil fuels, and implement a Just Transition to a 100% renewable and regenerative economy and social system. 

 

  • Commit to a binding international emissions reductions plan that limits global temperature rise to below 1.5°C, in line with the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C and the 2021 IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.

  • Prohibit new permits and leases for fossil fuel companies.6

  • Divest public funds from coal, oil and gas corporations. End all subsidies and insurance allowances to oil, gas and coal projects.

  • Implement the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities in all climate finance.7

  • Decentralize and democratize ownership of renewable and regenerative solutions. Invest in community-owned solar and wind, public green utilities and nationalized energy industries.8

  • Support fossil fuel workers to find new employment in renewable energy, transport and land use sectors.

  • Ensure dignified conditions for all care workers. Care work, from childcare to healthcare, is an undervalued and underpaid sector that disproportionately employs women and women of color. At the same time, it is a crucial backbone of our economic and social system, and plays a key part in the transition to a renewable, regenerative economy.9

  • Reject “net zero” schemes.10

  • Reject false solutions, such as fracked gas, nuclear energy, geo-engineering, bioenergy and biofuels,11 carbon capture and storage, and forest offsetting.

2. Promote Women’s Leadership and Gender Equity 

Due to unequal gender norms, women and gender non-binary people are disproportionately impacted by climate change and fossil fuel extraction. At the same time, they are crucial leaders in the transition to a just, renewable future. Countless studies have shown that when women hold positions of leadership at all levels, entire communities and nature benefit.12

 

  • Ensure women’s full and equal participation in all aspects of climate policy and finance. 

  • Realize the Paris Agreement principles that all climate actions must respect human rights, including the promotion of gender equity. Use the UNFCCC Lima Work Programme on Gender and its Gender Action Plan to guide activities.13

  • Acknowledge the unique and essential roles, responsibilities, solutions, needs, and desires of women in climate change mitigation efforts.

  • Uplift the leadership and solutions of diverse identities across the gender spectrum.

  • Given the crucial role of women, and particularly women of color, in the care economy, their rights and well-being must be respected and upheld.14 

  • Learn from and respect Indigenous women’s traditional ecological knowledge as central to climate solutions. 

  • Honor women’s rights to self-determination in all contexts, from the right to make reproductive choices to the choice of where and how to live and work.

3. Protect the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

The traditional ecological knowledge of agriculture, seeds and biodiversity held by Indigenous communities is indispensable for confronting climate change, even as Indigenous Peoples are disproportionately harmed by fossil fuel development, deforestation, extractive industries and climate impacts. In every step of the Just Transition, the rights of Indigenous Peoples must be upheld and the leadership of Indigenous Peoples respected.

 

  • Uphold all treaties with Indigenous Peoples and immediately halt the violation of treaty rights. Defend Indigenous Peoples’ rights to inhabit traditional lands undisturbed by industrial projects and extractive industries.

  • Respect and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent in all cases.15

  • Prioritize Indigenous Peoples’ decision-making power at the national and international levels.

  • Learn from and follow Indigenous and Traditional Ecological Knowledge.

  • Invest in Indigenous People’s global leadership to protect and promote healthy relationships with life-sustaining ecosystems.

 

4. Protect Forests and Biodiversity

The maintenance of healthy forests and robust biodiversity is crucial to the fight against climate change. Globally, the stewardship of forests and biodiversity lies heavily in the hands of women, local communities and Indigenous Peoples.16 The success of forest and biodiversity conservation depends on immediately halting all deforestation and respecting women’s leadership, local use rights and traditional ecological knowledge.

 

  • Impose a global moratorium on the logging and burning of all old growth forests.17

  • Immediately halt the burning of forests to produce cropland or pastureland for ruminative livestock.

  • Set forestry management targets that are in line with the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.18

  • Phase out all agricultural practices that cause soil erosion, depletion and compaction.

  • Oppose the commodification of forest carbon through carbon offset schemes. Forest offsets have been widely, scientifically discredited.19


5. Preserve Oceans and Freshwater and Address Water Security

Earth’s oceans and the hydrological cycle are gravely threatened by climate change. Governments must act now to halt the greenhouse gas emissions, pollution and human exploitation that are destabilizing the water systems fundamental to all life on Earth.

 

  • Recognize the human right to sufficient, safe, clean, affordable, and physically accessible water.20

  • Outlaw water privatization. Water should be a free, public good everywhere.

  • Implement natural ecological water treatment methods.

  • Protect vulnerable and threatened fisheries and coral reefs in marine sanctuaries (Marine Protected Areas).

  • Clean up the plastic, sewage and trash in the world’s oceans, streams, rivers, and freshwater systems.

  • Recognize Integrated Water Resource Management for better understanding of the value of water.

 

6. Promote Food Security and Food Sovereignty

Hotter temperatures, changing precipitation patterns and extreme weather events are already causing global disruptions to food production and storage.21 Climate change is a primary cause of food insecurity, even as our industrialized food system drives pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.22 For this reason, we must promote the holistic management of our food system, both to mitigate climate change and prevent hunger and malnutrition. Gender disparities in access to land, water, credit, technology and tenure rights inhibit women’s food security. At the same time, women farmers feed the world, and play key roles in maintaining food security. In affecting deep changes to our agricultural system, we must center the leadership of women, Indigenous Peoples and smallholder farmers.

 

  • Support decentralized, “people-run” economies, natural, non-genetically modified foods, and cyclical and sustainable agro-ecological farming practices.

  • Outlaw international trade agreements that determine seed “ownership” and “use.” Prohibit the global patenting of seeds.23

  • Reject false solutions such as climate-smart agriculture, soil sequestration programs, Ag-NBS (Nature Based Solutions), and payments for environmental services (PES).

  • Support communities with skills and financing to take increasing ownership of their local agricultural sovereignty.

  • Reduce the production and consumption of industrial meat and dairy products. Industrial animal agriculture produces a third of global greenhouse gas emissions.24

  • Support  Indigenous communities to maintain their traditional food practices.

 

7. Protect the Rights of Nature

The Rights of Nature is a groundbreaking legal framework that recognizes natural systems, such as rivers, forests, mountain ranges and water bodies, as rights-bearing entities with an inviolable claim to protection and preservation. Although the Rights of Nature is new to our legal system, it is based on traditional knowledge from Indigenous Peoples about how to live in harmony with the natural laws of the Earth. 

 

  • Recognize the Rights of Nature in law and practice. 

  • End the commodification, financialization and exploitation of all ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, deltas, rivers and wildlife preserves.

  • End market-based mechanisms that purport to protect ecosystems, but actually promote the industrial and monocultural destruction of biodiverse regions and hotspots. These include carbon offset schemes. 

  • Based on the Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth legal framework, acknowledge that nature in all its life forms has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles.25


Action Steps for Financial Institutions

 

By removing support from harmful projects and re-directing resources into climate solutions, financial institutions can be agents of positive change. In order to maintain 1.5° C of global warming, financial institutions must align their actions with the ambitious emissions pathway set forth in the Paris Agreement and commit to respect human rights and the rights of Indigenous Peoples at every turn.

 

  • Halt financing to any project that would explore new fossil fuel reserves, expand fossil fuel extraction, or build new fossil fuel infrastructure.

  • Rapidly phase out financing for existing fossil fuel projects. Require existing fossil fuel clients to publish plans by COP26 to phase out fossil fuel operations on a timeline aligned with SR1.5 pathway 1. Decline financing to companies that refuse to publish such plans.

  • Deny loans to any company or project that fails to comply with a No Deforestation, No Peatland, No Exploitation (NDPE) policy at a corporate group level.

  • Require all investee companies to uphold human rights in accordance with the International Bill of Human Rights, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.26

  • Conduct direct consultations with Indigenous, frontline, and local communities in decision-making processes in areas where operations impact those communities. 

  • Refuse financing to projects involving false solutions or “net zero” carbon accounting, including carbon capture and storage, nuclear power production and bioenergy.

  • Acknowledge and redress the role of one’s financial institution in perpetrating past and current gendered and racialized harms against women and the climate.

  • Invest in and facilitate a Just Transition. Fund dignified, green jobs, and care jobs at every level, especially in community-owned and democratically managed ventures.

  • Invest in community-led solutions, such as regenerative agricultural, energy, and forestry ventures, led by Global South, frontline and Black, Brown and Indigenous communities and women.


For the Earth and All Generations, 


Prominent individual signatories include Hilda Heine, Senator and Former President of the Marshall Islands; Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland; Dessima Williams, Former Ambassador to the United Nations from Grenada; Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; and the following organizations: 

Academia Mexicana de Derecho Ambiental

Action Center on Race and the Economy

Adéquations

African Climate Reality Project

Akina Mama wa AfrikaAksi! for gender, social and ecological justice

Almaa organization

Amazon Watch

Anthropocene Alliance

Aube Nouvelle pour la Femme et le Développement 

 

Bangladesh indigenous women’s network 

BankTrack

Blue Planet Project

Bronx Climate Justice North

Businesses for a Livable Climate

 

CA Businesses for a Livable Climate

CADIRE CAMEROON ASSOCIATION

Call to Action Colorado

CAMEROON GENDER AND ENVIRONMENT WATCH

CatholicNetwork US

Centre for Ecological Governance and Gender Initiatives (CEGGI)

Church Women United in New York State

Clean Energy Action CLEAR Environmental Climate 2025

Climate Action Rhode Island-350

Climate Crisis Policy

Climate Finance Action

Climate Justice Alliance

ClimateMama

CO Businesses for a Livable Climate

CODEPINK Women for Peace, Golden Gate Chapter

Coherence Lab

Collectif Sénégalais des Africaines pour la Promotion de l'Education Relative à l'Environnement (COSAPERE)

Collective Future Fund 

Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights

Cook for Peace

 

Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) for Equality

Divest Invest Protect

Dogwood Alliance

Dominican Leadership Conference

 

Earth Action, Inc.

Earth Guardians

EDGE Funders Alliance

Empower our Future - Colorado

Environmental Community

Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area

 

Fondo Lunaria Mujer

 

Gallifrey Foundation

Giniw Collective

Girl Power Foundation Uganda

Global Exchange

Global Forest Coalition

Global Witness

Good Health Community Project

Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Green Education and Legal Fund

GreenFaith

Grupo Para o Desenvolvimento da Mulher e Rapariga

 

Haki Nawiri Afrika

Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington, DC

Honor the Earth 

 

IndiGenius Global

Indigenous Climate Action

Indigenous Environmental Network

Indigenous Human Rights Defenders and Corporate Accountability Program (IHRDCAP)

Institute for Global Health and Health Policy

Institute for Policy Studies Climate Policy Program

International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women

International-Curricula Educators Association

 

Juventud Unida en Acción

 

Kaiāulu.earth

 

Laboratorio Socioambiental Ciudadano

Latinas for Climate

League of Women Voters of the United States

Long Beach Alliance for Clean Energy

Love Care Home 

 

MADRE

Manbha Foundation

Mawu Energy

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action

Millennium ART

Movement Rights

 

Naireeta Services Private Limited

National Sudanese Women Association

New Mexico Climate Justice

New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light

North American Climate, Conservation and Environment(NACCE)

North Bronx Racial Justice

North Country 350 Alliance

North Range Concerned Citizens

Nuclear Information and Resource Service

 

Oil Change International

Older Women’s Network Europe

 

Pacific Environment

Participatory Research Action Network- PRAAN

PEREMPUAN AMAN (The Association of Indigenous Women of the Archipelago AMAN)

Phil Berrigan Memorial Chapter Veterans For Peace, Baltimore, MD

Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania

Ponca Nation

Power Shift Network

Privada 

 

Rachel Carson Council

RapidShift Network

RECODE ex FEMNET

Senegal Regional Centre for International Development Cooperation (RCIDC)

Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary : JPIC / NGO GO

Réseau Enfants de la Terre

RGIC

Rural Girl Woman Challenge Foundation Uganda (RUGWOCFU)

 

San Francisco Public Bank Coalition

Schenectady Neighbors for Peace

SFBSP-BURUNDI

Sisters of Charity Federation

Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Congregational Leadership

Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Western Province Leadership

Small Business Alliance

Social housing green deal

Solar Sister

Solarize Albany County

Sonoma County Gleaners

Spirit of the Sun

Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN)

Synergy of Congolese Women’s Associations

System Change Not Climate Change

 

Texas Campaign for the Environment

The Chisholm Legacy Project

The Climate Reality Projet_Brazil

The Green House Connection Center

The Movements Trust

Tree Uganda Academy (TUA)

TRUST Climate Action Strategists

Tulele Peisa Inc.

 

UNFA

Unite North Metro Denver

United Methodist Women

UU Congregation of Binghamton, Green Sanctuary

 

VIVAT International

 

Wall of Women

Women Rising Radio

Women's Climate Congress

Women's Earth Alliance

Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)

Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)

Womenvai

WoMin

 

Zero Hour

Zero Waste Antigua Barbuda

1 Million Women

1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations

350 Hawaii

350PDX 


Endnotes

1.  IPCC, “Summary for Policymakers,” in Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ed. Masson-Delmotte, V. et al. (Cambridge University Press, 2021), 15–30; IPCC, “Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5°C above Pre-Industrial Levels and Related Global Greenhouse Gas Emission Pathways, in the Context of Strengthening the Global Response to the Threat of Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Efforts to Eradicate Poverty,” ed. V. Masson-Delmotte et al., 2018.

2.  IPCC, “Summary for Policymakers.”

3.  “Paris Agreement” (United Nations, 2015), https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/english_paris_agreement.pdf.

4.  Friends of the Earth International et al., “Chasing Carbon Unicorns: The Deception of Carbon Markets and ‘Net Zero,’” February 2021, https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Friends-of-the-earth-international-carbon-unicorns-english.pdf.

5.  Climate Justice Alliance, “Just Transition: A Framework for Change,” 2016, https://climatejusticealliance.org/just-transition/.

6.  Karl Mathiesen, “Existing Coal, Oil and Gas Fields Will Blow Carbon Budget – Study,” The Guardian, September 23, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/23/existing-coal-oil-and-gas-fields-will-blow-carbon-budget-study.

7.  “Rio Declaration on Environment and Development,” A/CONF.151/26 § (1992), 2, https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/generalassembly/docs/globalcompact/A_CONF.151_26_Vol.I_Declaration.pdf.

8.  The Next System Project and Oil Change International, “The Case for Public Ownership of the Fossil Fuel Industry,” April 2020, https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/case-public-ownership-fossil-fuel-industry.

9.  Feminist Coalition for a Green New Deal, “A Feminist Agenda for a Green New Deal: Principles,” 2018, http://feministgreennewdeal.com/principles/.

10.  James Dyke and Robert Watson, “Climate Scientists: Concept of Net Zero Is a Dangerous Trap,” April 22, 2021, https://theconversation.com/climate-scientists-concept-of-net-zero-is-a-dangerous-trap-157368.

11.  Global Forest Coalition, “Bioenergy,” 2021, https://globalforestcoalition.org/campaigns/bioenergy/.

12.  UN Women Watch, “Fact Sheet: Women, Gender Equality and Climate Change,” n.d., https://www.un.org/womenwatch/feature/climate_change/downloads/Women_and_Climate_Change_Factsheet.pdf

13.  Presidency of COP25, “Enhanced Lima Work Programme on Gender and Its Gender Action Plan,” wateDraft decision -/CP.25 § (2020), https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/cp2019_L03E.pdf.

14.  Feminist Green New Deal Coalition, “Care & Climate Understanding The Policy Intersections,” April 2021, http://feministgreennewdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FemGND-IssueBrief-Draft7-Apr15.pdf.

15.  “United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” 61/295 § (2007), https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/11/UNDRIP_E_web.pdf.

16.  International Union for the Conservation of Nature, “IUCN Director General’s Statement on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2019,” August 9, 2019, https://www.iucn.org/news/secretariat/201908/iucn-director-generals-statement-international-day-worlds-indigenous-peoples-2019.

17.  International Union for the Conservation of Nature, “Forests Provide for the World,” IUCN Blog (blog), 2021, https://www.iucn.org/theme/forests/our-work.

18.  United Nations Environment Programme, “Convention on Biological Diversity,” 2022 1972, https://www.cbd.int/.

19.  Alia Al Ghussain, “The Biggest Problem with Carbon Offsetting Is That It Doesn’t Really Work,” Greenpeace News (blog), May 26, 2020, https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/the-biggest-problem-with-carbon-offsetting-is-that-it-doesnt-really-work/.

20.  UN Water, “Human Rights to Water and Sanitation,” 2021, https://www.unwater.org/water-facts/human-rights/.

21.  Food and Agriculture Organization, “The Impact of Disasters and Crises on Agriculture and Food Security: 2021,” 2021, http://www.fao.org/home/digital-reports/disasters-in-agriculture/en/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social+media&utm_campaign=fao.

22.  Mbow, C. et al., “Food Security,” in Climate Change and Land: An IPCC Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification, Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems, ed. P.R. Shukla et al. (In Press, 2019).

23.  Vandana Shiva, “Earth Democracy: Beyond Dead Democracy and Killing Economies,” Capitalism Nature Socialism 21, no. 1 (2010): 83–95.

24.  Ayesha Tandon, “Food Systems Responsible for ‘One Third’ of Human-Caused Emissions,” Carbon Brief Blog (blog), August 3, 2021, https://www.carbonbrief.org/food-systems-responsible-for-one-third-of-human-caused-emissions.

25.  World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, “Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth,” April 22, 2010, https://therightsofnature.org/universal-declaration/.

26.  “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (1948), https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/FactSheet2Rev.1en.pdf; United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; “Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights” (United Nations, 2011), https://www.ohchr.org/documents/publications/guidingprinciplesbusinesshr_en.pdf.

Framework Recommendations

The Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice organizers have compiled a  list of recommended frameworks and initiatives  for governments and financial institutions that are in alignment with the 1.5 Paris Agreement target and an equitable path forward. This is not an exhaustive list, and does not reflect the many local and global frameworks and solutions that continue to drive global climate justice efforts, but rather serves to provide a strong analysis and tangible examples to complement the Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice’s Call to Action.


Frameworks, International Standards, and Initiatives for Governments


Feminist Fossil Free Future

Feminist Fossil Free Future: A document from the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development that calls for an alternative development model to gender-just, economic, political and social relationships in a world free from climate change.  It offers 8 initial ideas to start the conversation.


The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty: This initiative calls on governments around the world to adopt and implement a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to manage a global just transition away from coal, oil and gas. Urgent action is needed to end the expansion of fossil fuel production, phase out current production, and invest in renewable energy.


Just Transition Principles: A Framework for Change

Just Transition: A Framework for Change: Just Transition is a vision-led, unifying and place-based set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative, resilient, regenerative and equitable economies. The members of the Climate Justice Alliance have adapted the definition of Just Transition to represent a host of strategies to transition whole communities to build thriving economies that provide dignified, productive and ecologically sustainable livelihoods; democratic governance and ecological resilience and includes care for workers.


Consent is Everybody's Business

Consent is Everybody's Business: This briefing paper outlines why financial institutions need to implement Free, Prior and Informed Consent and what banks must do to put commitments on FPIC into practice. It acknowledges that there are legitimate questions about how banks can operationalize FPIC commitments and aims to explain clearly why FPIC is important and outlines the forces that are making it a prominent human rights, environmental and governance issue. This paper also highlights how FPIC can help banks ensure that they have obtained an accurate situational analysis and help them manage operational, legal, financial, compliance and reputational risks.


Red, Black, and Green New Deal National Black Climate Agenda

Red, Black, and Green New Deal National Black Climate Agenda: The Red Black and Green New Deal (RBG New Deal), an initiative of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), puts Black liberation at the center of the global climate struggle, and addresses the impacts of climate change and environmental racism on Black communities.

 

Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth

Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth: ‘Rights of Nature’ is a framework and legal system based on the recognition and honoring of the Earth’s fundamental and inviolable right to exist, live, thrive, evolve and regenerate. Legal systems built on the premise of Rights of Nature challenge the idea that natural communities and ecosystems are property to be exploited endlessly by humans, and instead recognize the Earth as a living, rights-bearing entity.

 

The Global Pact to Protect 80% of the Amazonia by 2025

 The Global Pact to Protect 80% of the Amazonia by 2025: Amazonian Indigenous federations representing 511 nations and allies unite in calling for a global pact for the permanent protection of 80% of the Amazon by 2025 as an urgent measure to avert an imminent tipping point.

 

Gender Equality & Just Transition: Discussion Paper

Gender Equality & Just Transition: Discussion Paper: A discussion paper summarizing a dialogue at the UN climate change negotiations. The event explored how the Paris Agreement can be implemented in a just and equitable manner; based on a feminist analysis of a "just transition". Panelists also provided a review of gender responsive mandates and decisions under the UNFCCC, and concrete policy recommendations for enhancing gender-just implementation at national and regional levels, particularly with regards to finance provision.  


Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Resist False Solutions to Climate Change

Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Resist False Solutions to Climate Change: Hoodwinked demonstrates how climate change false solutions perpetuate, expand and reinforce colonial-imperialism, ongoing patriarchal and white supremacist oppression, and today’s extreme neoliberal, globalized, industrial capitalist expansion. Because these false solutions are embedded in the root causes of climate change, this historical and ongoing conflict is generational, erecting a barrier that prevents the  implementation of real solutions. This zine serves as a tool to resist the false solutions.


Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: "Net Zero" Promises Ring Hollow without "Zero Fossil Fuel" Pledges

Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges: This document explains what net-zero financing commitments are and why they must include a phaseout of fossil fuel financing. It describes how corporations are misusing  the concept of “netting” emissions to justify business-as-usual operations or additional fossil fuel production. The report calls to immediately phase out fossil fuels. 


Feminist Green New Deal

Feminist Green New Deal: An intersectional and feminist perspective to the policy agenda surrounding the Green New Deal. A set of principles that call for a Green New Deal that is cross-cutting in its approach, steadfast in feminist principles, and strive to combat historical oppressions. 


Demands of Pacific Women - Rise for Climate Justice Every Day!

Demands of Pacific Women — Rise for Climate Justice Every Day!: The Women Defend Commons is located in Fiji and the Pacific. The collective outlines five demands calling for immediate climate and gender justice. Women Defend Commons activists mobilise and organise on all aspects of gender, climate and ecological justice; the collective supports a diverse, intersectional and intergenerational movement and insists on local women-led action to lead the just transition. 


Frameworks, International Standards, and Initiatives for Financial Institutions


Principles for Paris-Aligned Financial Institutions: Climate Impact, Fossil Fuels and Deforestation

Principles for Paris-Aligned Financial Institutions: Climate Impact, Fossil Fuels and Deforestation: A set of outlined principles that calls on financial institutions who have committed to “Paris alignment” to commit to aligning with the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C while respecting all human rights and the specific rights of Indigenous Peoples.  


SLOW BURN: The Asset Managers Betting Against the Planet

 SLOW BURN: The Asset Managers Betting Against the Planet: This report surveys 29 major asset managers, mostly based in Europe and among the biggest institutions in terms of assets under management. It analyzes their investment practices regarding climate change, using coal as the most straightforward benchmark on climate, and contains a scorecard that focuses on coal, as one of the easiest asset classes financial institutions can begin to act on and as the sector that requires the most urgent exit.


Consent is Everybody's Business 

Consent is Everybody's Business: This briefing paper outlines why financial institutions need to implement Free, Prior and Informed Consent and what banks must do to put commitments on FPIC into practice. It acknowledges that there are legitimate questions about how banks can operationalize FPIC commitments and aims to explain clearly why FPIC is important and outlines the forces that are making it a prominent human rights, environmental and governance issue, including, among other aspects, rapidly escalating violence towards people who peacefully speak out on land-related issues. This paper also highlights how FPIC can help banks ensure that they have obtained an accurate situational analysis and help them manage operational, legal, financial, compliance and reputational risks.


Free Prior and Informed Consent: Due Diligence Questionnaire

Free Prior and Informed Consent: Due Diligence Questionnaire: This questionnaire provides a list of considerations for investors seeking to implement best practices as to operationalizing the free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) of  Indigenous peoples regarding development of resources on and near their lands and territories. This questionnaire was developed to inform engagement between Indigenous peoples and non-governmental entities from outside the community.


Developing Effect Grievance Mechanisms for Banks

Developing Effect Grievance Mechanisms for Banks: As banks continue to lend to projects that adversely impact vulnerable people, there is an increasing global call for banks to have grievance mechanisms available for communities to raise complaints and seek remedy.  This paper reviews banks’ responsibilities and provides suggestions and recommendations for how banks can develop and implement effective operational-level grievance mechanisms that will be legitimate, trusted and meet their responsibilities under the Guiding Principles. 


Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Resist False Solutions to Climate Change

Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Resist False Solutions to Climate Change: Hoodwinked demonstrates how climate change false solutions perpetuate, expand and reinforce colonial-imperialism, ongoing patriarchal and white supremacist oppression, and today’s extreme neoliberal, globalized, industrial capitalist expansion. Because these false solutions are embedded in the root causes of climate change, this historical and ongoing conflict is generational, erecting a barrier that prevents the  implementation of real solutions. This zine serves as a tool to resist the false solutions.


Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: "Net Zero" Promises Ring Hollow Without "Zero Fossil Fuel" Pledges

Too Many (Loop)holes in the Net: “Net Zero” Promises Ring Hollow Without “Zero Fossil Fuel” Pledges: This document explains what net-zero financing commitments are and why they must include a phaseout of fossil fuel financing. It describes how corporations are misusing  the concept of “netting” emissions to justify business-as-usual operations or additional fossil fuel production. The report calls to immediately phase out fossil fuels. 


An Ecofeminist Impact Assessment Framework

An Ecofeminist Impact Assessment Framework: WoMin African Alliance led a process to develop and implement a groundbreaking ecofeminist framework to explore and expose the impacts of the Sendou I coal plant in Bargny, Senegal on women. The aim for the assessment framework is for it to be used to halt the construction of projects before the most serious impacts are felt. It comprises 4 indicators with standards to guide assessment. 


Gendered and Racial Impacts of the Fossil Fuel Industry in North American and Complicit Financial Institutions

Gendered and Racial Impacts of the Fossil Fuel Industry in North America and Complicit Financial Institutions: A Call to Action for the Health of our Communities and Nature in the Climate Crisis: This report addresses the disproportionate gender and race-specific health and safety impacts as well as human and Indigenous rights issues of fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure in the United States and selected parts of Canada.  

Speakers

Alejandra Helbein

Women and Territory Program, Urgent Action Fund, Colombia


Alexandra Narvaez (Sinangoe)

Kofan Leader, Ecuador


Amy Goodman

Host and Executive Producer, Democracy Now, USA


Andrea Ixchíu Hernández (Maya K’iche’)

Journalist, Filmmaker, Land Protector, Guatemala


Andrea Sanhueza

Public Representative for the Escazú Agreement, Chile


Antonia Juhasz

Author, Investigative Journalist, Analyst, USA


Aya M Rahil Naseem

Marine Biologist, Co-founder and Vice President of the Maldives Coral Institute, Maldives


Bhumika Muchhala

Decolonial and Feminist Political Economist, and Political Economist & Policy Analyst, Third World Network, USA


Bindu Bhandari

En-ROADS Climate Ambassador, Climate Interactive, Nepal


Brianna Fruean

Samoan Climate Change Activist, Pacific Climate Warriors, New Zealand


Bridget Burns

Executive Director, Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), USA


Carmen Capriles

Founder, Reacción Climática, and Coordinator for Latin America, WECAN, Bolivia


Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation)

Environmental Ambassador, and Board Member, WECAN, USA


Charlene Aleck (Tsleil Waututh Nation)

Elected Councillor for Tsleil Waututh Nation, Canada


Cindy Wiesner

Executive Director, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) and Grassroots Global Justice Action Fund (GGJAF), USA


Colette Pichon Battle, Esq.

Executive Director, Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy, USA


Corrina Gould (Lisjan Ohlone)

Co-Founder and Co-Director, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, USA


Dalia Fernanda Márquez Añez

Founder, Juventud Unida en Acción (JUENA), Venezuela


Desirae Harp (Mishewal Wappo)

Run4Salmon Prayer, USA


Dessima Williams

Grenadian Diplomat and Former Ambassador to the United Nations, Grenada


Devi Anggraini

President, PEREMPUAN AMAN, Indonesia


Diana Duarte

Director of Policy and Strategic Engagement, MADRE, USA


Dipti Bhatnagar

International Program Coordinator for Climate Justice and Energy, Friends of the Earth (FoE) International, Mozambique


Dr. Adrienne Hollis PhD, JD

Principal and Founder, Hollis Environmental Consulting, USA


Dr. Aytakin Asgarova (Talysh)

Founder, IndiGenius Global LLC, Azerbaijan


Dr. Jane Goodall

Humanitarian, Scientist, Conservationist, and Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace, United Kingdom


Dr. Julia Kim

Program Director, Gross National Happiness (GNH) Centre, Bhutan


Dr. Shalini Grover

Research Fellow for Global Economies of Care, International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, United Kingdom


Eriel Deranger (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation)

Executive Director, Indigenous Climate Action, Canada


Ernestine Leikeki

Founding Member, Board Chair, and Women Empowerment Officer, Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch (CAMGEW), Cameroon


Eugenia Vigil Escalera

Field Team, Social and Economic Development of Indigenous Mexicans (DESMI), Chiapas, Mexico


Fadoua Brour

Co-Coordinator for the Middle East/North African Region, WECAN, Morocco


Hannah Greep

Human Rights Campaigner, BankTrack, Netherlands


Helena Gualinga (Kichwa)

Climate and Indigenous Rights Youth Activist, Sarayaku, Ecuador


Hilda Heine

Senator and Former President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, The Marshall Islands


India Logan-Riley (Ngāti Kahungunu,Rongomaiwahine, Rangitāne)

Co-Founder, Te Ara Whatu, and Climate Justice Advisor, Action Station, New Zealand


Irene HongPing Shen

Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED), USA


Isis Alvarez

Colombian Biologist and Senior Gender Advisor and Unsustainable Livestock Campaign Coordinator, Global Forest Coalition (GFC), Colombia


Jacinta Ruru (Māori, Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui)

Faculty of Law, University of Otago, New Zealand


Jackie Fielder (Two Kettle Lakota and Hidatsa)

Co-Founder, San Francisco Public Bank Coalition, USA


Jacqui Patterson

Founder and Executive Director, The Chisholm Legacy Project, USA


Jade Begay (Diné / Tesuque Pueblo)

Climate Justice Campaign Director, NDN Collective, USA


Jennifer Wickham (Gidimt’en, Cas Yikh)

Media Manager for Gidimt'en Checkpoint, Canada


Jody Williams

Nobel Peace Laureate, and Co-Founder, Nobel Women’s Initiative, USA


Josefina Skerk (Sami)

Advocate for Sami rights and Former Vice President of the Sami Parliament, Sweden


Justin Winters

Co-Founder and Executive Director, One Earth, USA


Kahea Pacheco (Kanaka 'Ōiwi)

Co-Director, Women's Earth Alliance (WEA), USA


Kanahus Manuel (Secwepemc and Ktunaxa)

Tiny House Warriors, Canada


Kandi White (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara)

Native Energy & Climate Campaign Director, Indigenous Environmental Network, USA


Kari Ames (Tlingit)

Indigenous Representative in the Tongass Forest, Alaska, WECAN, USA


Karina Gonzalez

Women Speak Programs Coordinator, WECAN, USA


Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner

Poet, Performance Artist, Educator, and Climate Envoy for the Marshall Islands, The Marshall Islands


Kisha Muana

Ocean Campaigner, Biologists, Researcher, Greenpeace Philippines, The Philippines


Leila Salazar-López

Executive Director, Amazon Watch, USA


Leonida Odongo (Luo Community)

Coordinator, Haki Nawiri Afrika, Kenya


Lucy Mulenkei (Maasai)

Executive Director, Indigenous Information Network, Kenya


Margaret Kwateng

National Green New Deal Organizer, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, USA


Mary Robinson

Former President of Ireland, Ireland


María Luisa Rafael (Quechua)

Human Rights and Environmental Activist, Bolivia


Maude Barlow

Founding Member, Council of Canadians and Co-Founder, Blue Planet Project, Canada


Melanie Allen

Co-Director, Hive Fund, USA


Michelle Cook (Dine'/Navajo)

Human Rights Lawyer, and Founder, Divest Invest Protect, USA


Mie Asaoka

President, Kiko Network, Japan


Mitzi Jonelle Tan

Convenor and International Spokesperson, Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines (YACAP), The Philippines


Moira Ivana Millán (Mapuche and Weychafe)

Founder and Coordinator, Indigenous Women's Movement for Good Living, Argentina


Monica Atkins

Co-Executive Director, Climate Justice Alliance (CJA), USA


Monique Verdin (Houma Nation)

Director, The Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange, and Indigenous Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator, WECAN, USA


Nadya Tannous (Palestinian)

LANDBACK Organizer, NDN Collective


Naomi Klein

Award-winning Journalist and New York Times Bestselling Author, Canada


Natalie Isaacs

Founder, One Million Women, Australia


Neema Namadamu

Founder, Synergy of Congolese Women’s Associations (SAFECO), and Democratic Republic of Congo Coordinator, WECAN, Democratic Republic of the Congo


Nina Simons

Co-Founder & Chief Relationship Strategist, Bioneers, USA


Niria Alicia

UN Young Champion of the Earth 2020, Run4Salmon Prayer, USA


Noelene Nabulivou

Co-Founder and Director, DIVA for Equality, Fiji


Olasimbo Sojinrin

Nigeria Country Director, Solar Sister, Nigeria


Osprey Orielle Lake

Founder and Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International, USA


Patricia Gualinga (Kichwa)

Indigenous Leader from Sarayaku, and Spokeswoman, Mujeres Amazónicas Defensoras de la Selva, Ecuador


Patricia Madrigal Cordero

Former Vice-Minister of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica, Costa Rica


Rachel Ramirez

Climate Writer, CNN, USA


Rauna Kuokkanen (Sápmi)

Research Professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies, University of Lapland, Finland


Rita Uwaka

Forest & Biodiversity Program Coordinator, Friends of the Earth Africa (FoEA), Nigeria


Rosa Moiwend

Member of the Malind Anim tribe from Merauke, West Papua, and Co-Founder, Make West Papua Safe Campaign (MWPS), Feminist and Human Rights Defender (she/her), West Papua, New Guinea


Rosanna Esparza

Community Organizer and Environmental and Public Health Researcher, Kern County California/USA


Rosario Diaz Garavito

Founder and CEO, The Millennials Movement, Peru


Ruth Nyambura

Kenyan Activist with African Ecofeminist Collective, Kenya


Ruth Spencer

Deputy Chair, Marine Ecosystems Protected Areas (MEPA) Trust, Antigua and Barbuda


Ruth Łchav’aya K’isen Miller (Curyung Tribe of Dena’ina Athabaskan)

Climate Justice Director, Native Movement, USA


Sandile Ndelu

Interim Co-Manager, Communications and Advocacy Lead at FRIDA Fund, South Africa


Sascha Gabizon

Executive Director, Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF), Netherlands


Shannon Biggs

Co-founder, Movement Rights, USA


Sharon Lavigne

2021 Goldman Prize Recipient, and Founder, Rise St. James, USA


Silvia Ribeiro

Latin America Director, ETC Group, Mexico


Simone Senogles (Anishinaabe)

Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator, Leadership Team, Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), USA


Sunita Narain

Director General, Centre for Science and Environment, India


Suzanne Singer (Diné)

Director, Native Renewables, USA


Sônia Bone Guajajara (Guajajara)

Executive Coordinator, Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), Brazil


Taily Terena (Terena Nation)

Indigenous Rights Activist, Brazil


Tamara Toles O’Laughlin

President and CEO, Environmental Grantmakers Association, USA


Tania Aubid (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe)

Water Protector fighting to Stop Line 3, USA


Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe)

Founder, Giniw Collective, USA


Tetet Lauron

Advisor for the United Nations Programme, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, The Philippines


Thilmeeza Hussain

Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, The Maldives


Titi Soentoro

Executive Director, Aksi! for gender, social and ecological justice, Indonesia


Tzeporah Burman

Chair, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, Canada


Vasser Seydel

Deep Sea-mining Campaign Manager, The Oxygen Project, USA


Yoon Geum-Soon

Former Member, International Coordinating Committee of La Via Campesina (LVC), and Current Advisor/ Former President, Korean Women Peasants Association (KWPA), Republic of Korea


Åsa Larsson-Blind (Saami)

Saami Council Vice President, Samerådet, Sweden

Partners

— PARTNERS—

1 Million Women

ABCRGR Creation Collaborative

Action Center on Race and the Economy

Adéquations

African Climate Reality Project

African Women's Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF)

Alliance for Affordable Energy

Amazon Watch

ASOCIACION CIUDADANA POR LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS- ARGENTINA

Aube Nouvelle pour la Femme et le Développement (ANFD)

Bank Track

Blue Planet Project

Businesses for a Livable Climate

CA Businesses for a Livable Climate

CADIRE CAMEROON ASSOCIATION

Call to Action Colorado

cambiaMO s.coop.mad.

CAMEROON GENDER AND ENVIRONMENT WATCH (CAMGEW)

Cameroon League for Development

CatholicNetwork US

CEAMUJER

Celia Alario Coaching

China Youth Climate Action Network (CYCAN)

Christian Aid

Clean Energy Action

Climate 2025

Climate Change Africa Opportunities (CCAO)

ClimateMama

Coalition to Protect New York

Coherence Lab

Collectif Sénégalais des Africaines pour la Promotion de l'Education Relative à l'Environnement (COSAPERE)

Colorbrightongreen

Community Resource Centre

Coordinadora Feminista 8 de Marzo

Delaware Riverkeeper Network

Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice

DIVA for Equality

Earth Guardians

EarthRights International

EarthSpark International

Ecosystem of Evolution

Education, Economics, Environmental, Climate and Health Organization (EEECHO)

EKTA

Enèji Pwop

ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy

Environmental Grantmakers Association

Fondo Semillas

Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative

Global Forest Coalition

Global Sisterhood

Global Witness

Grassroots Global Justice Alliance

Great Old Broads for Wilderness

Green Amendments For the Generations

Green Party of England and Wales

Green Party of Nassau County

Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy

Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition

Heinrich Böll Foundation

Hivos

Honor the Earth

Human Impacts Institute

Indigenous Climate Action

International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women

International Network of Liberal Women

Just Associates - JASS

Juventud Unida en Acción

Kaiaulu.earth

Korea Women Peasants Association (KWPA)

MADRE

Millennials Movement

Moms Clean Air Force

Movement Rights

Movimiento de Mujeres indígenas por el Buen Vivir

Murna Foundation

National Indigenous Disabled Women Association Nepal (NIDWAN)

National Sudanese Women Association

New Mexico Climate Justice

Nobel Women's Initiative

North Range Concerned Citizens

One Billion Rising

One Earth

One Earth Sangha

Our Climate Voices

Oxfam America

Participatory Research Action Network- PRAAN

PEREMPUAN AMAN (Association of Indigenous Women of The Archipelago)

Pilier aux Femmes Vulnérables Actives - PIFEVA

PODA - Pakistan

PODER

Power Shift Network

Rachel's Network

Rainforest Action Network

RapidShift Network

Reaccion Climatica

RED DE DEFENSORAS DEL AMBIENTE Y EL BUEN VIVIR- ARGENTINA

Regeneration International

Regenerative Design Institute

Regional Centre for International Development Cooperation (RCIDC)

Renewables 100 Policy Institute

Réseau Enfants de la Terre

Rights of Mother Earth

San Francisco Public Bank Coalitionwww.sfpublicbank.org

SantiagoEcoAmigas (SEA)

SFBSP-BURUNDI

She Changes Climate

Sisters of St. Martha of PEI

Small Business Alliance

Solar Cookers International

Solar Sister

Spirit of the Sun

Stand.Earth

Sustainable Development Foundation

Sustainable Obtainable Solutions

System Change Not Climate Change

TDJ

The Chisholm Legacy Project: A Resource Hub for Black Frontline Climate Justice Leadership

The Climate Reality Project Brasil

The Climate Reality Project Canada

The Climate Reality Project Indonesia

The Green House Connection Center

The Moroccan Youth Climate Movement

The Movement for Black Lives' Red, Black & Green New Deal

The Movements Trust

Transition US

Tree Uganda Academy

TreeSisters

UASB-Quito and Colectivo de Geografía Crítica del Ecuador

Ubiquity University

UC Center for Climate Justice

UNFA

Unite North Metro Denver

United Methodist Women

UPROSE

Via Organica

Wall of Women

WEDO

WEN

Wen (Women's Environmental Network)

Women Deliver

Women Engage for a Common Future International

Women in Solar Energy (WISE)

Women's Climate Congress

Women's Earth Alliance

Women's EcoPeace

WOMENVAI

WoMin

Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines

350.org

350NYC


— PARTNER RESOURCES & CALLS TO ACTION—

Fueling the Fire

Action Center on Race and the Economy


L’écoféminisme, contre toutes les formes d’oppression

Adéquations


A GENDER LENS | Not On Our Soil – A Climate Justice Reality

African Climate Reality Project


Complicity in Destruction III : How Global Corporations Enable Violations of Indigenous Peoples' Rights in the Brazilian Amazon

Amazon Watch


Asociacion Ciudadana por los Derechos Humanos - Argentina - Facebook

Asociacion Ciudadana por los Derechos Humanos - Argentina


CAMGEW Facebook Page

CAMEROON GENDER AND ENVIRONMENT WATCH (CAMGEW)


People of Color in Environmental & Climate Justice: A Resource Database of Fabulous Leaders

The Chisholm Legacy Project: A Resource Hub for Black Frontline Climate Justice Leadership 


China Youth Climate Action Network Instagram

China Youth Climate Action Network


Climate Change Africa Opportunities - Home News

Climate Change Africa Opportunities (CCAO)


Delaware Riverkeeper Network - Join Us

Delaware Riverkeeper Network


EarthRights International - Campaigns

EarthRights International


THE BOLD DECLARATION

EarthSpark International


Connecting the C’s: Color, Class, Climate, Conservation, and Collaboration for a Thriving Community

Education, Economics, Environmental, Climate and Health Organization (EEECHO)


Fondo Semillas Publications

Fondo Semillas


Corporate contagion: How the private sector is capturing the UN Food, Biodiversity and Climate Summits

Global Forest Coalition


Great Old Broads for Wilderness - Newsletter

Great Old Broads for Wilderness


Protect Gullah/Geechee Land

Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition


Hivos - Newsletter

Hivos


Stop Line 3

Honor the Earth


Extractives toolkit "Behind the Scenes of Extractives: Money, Power & Community Resistance" 

Just Associates - JASS


Moms Clean Air Force - Make Your Voice Heard

Moms Clean Air Force


When Feminists Rule The World

Nobel Women's Initiative


V Day - Until The Violence Stops

One Billion Rising


One Earth - Why Women are Key to Solving the Climate Crisis

One Earth


One Earth Action

One Earth Sangha


Our Climate Voices - Instagram

Our Climate Voices


Rachel's Network - Catalyst Award

Rachel's Network


Red de Defensoras Del Ambiente y el Buen Vivir - Argentina - Facebook

Red de Defensoras Del Ambiente y el Buen Vivir - Argentina


Penny Livingston

Regenerative Design Institute


Regional Centre for International Development Cooperation - Facebook

Regional Centre for International Development Cooperation (RCIDC)


Be the voice for Mother Earth, Say yes to Rights of Nature

Rights of Mother Earth


SFBSP - BURUNDI Facebook

SFBSP-BURUNDI


Solar Cookers International - winner of the Keeling Curve Prize

Solar Cookers International


Solar Sister Twitter

Solar Sister


TDJ - Burundi

TDJ


Regenerative Communities Summit

Transition US


TreeSisters Planting Projects - Cauvery River Basin, India

TreeSisters 


Tree Uganda Academy - Panorama Solutions

Tree Uganda Academy


Makana, mujeres luchando contra las industrias extractivas y el cambio climatico

UASB-Quito and Colectivo de Geografía Crítica del Ecuador


Climate Justice: Just Energy for All

United Methodist Women


Asocacion de Consumidores Organicos

Via Organica


Women's Climate Congress - National Congress of Women 2021

Women's Climate Congress


A Draft Roadmap for a Feminist Green New Deal (UK)

Wen (Women's Environmental Network)


WEN - Join Us Page

WEN - CAL


GENDER JUST CLIMATE SOLUTIONS

Women Engage for a Common Future International


WOMENVAI - Instagram

WOMENVAI


 
 
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