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

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
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
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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
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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
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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
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Call to Action Colorado
cambiaMO s.coop.mad.
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Cameroon League for Development
CatholicNetwork US
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China Youth Climate Action Network (CYCAN)
Christian Aid
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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
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DIVA for Equality
Earth Guardians
EarthRights International
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Ecosystem of Evolution
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EKTA
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Environmental Grantmakers Association
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Global Forest Coalition
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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
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International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women
International Network of Liberal Women
Just Associates - JASS
Juventud Unida en Acción
Korea Women Peasants Association (KWPA)
MADRE
Millennials Movement
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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
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One Billion Rising
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Our Climate Voices
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PODA - Pakistan
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Power Shift Network
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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
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SFBSP-BURUNDI
She Changes Climate
Sisters of St. Martha of PEI
Small Business Alliance
Solar Cookers International
Solar Sister
Spirit of the Sun
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
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WoMin
Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines
350NYC
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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
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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
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Women Engage for a Common Future International
WOMENVAI - Instagram
WOMENVAI