U.S. WOMEN'S CLIMATE JUSTICE INITIATIVE

The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, ‘U.S. Women’s Climate Justice Initiative’ seeks to support the development of a collective voice, action base, space for trainings, and movement of women, feminists and allies from across the United States calling for immediate action for climate justice and protection of our waters, forests, air and communities.

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It is internationally recognized that women are absolutely critical to implementing climate change and sustainability solutions, yet it is also clear that women need more prominent spaces and mechanisms to marshal their united efforts and involvement into a truly powerful movement. WECAN International, along with allies across the U.S., is supporting this movement.

Our work is based on a climate justice perspective. We must take into account that women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and environmental degradation, and Indigenous women, women of color, women from low-income communities bear a heavier burden from the impacts of climate change.

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In the U.S., studies show that more women believe in the science of climate change then men, and are more likely to act upon it. Women in the U.S. also vote more, and give more of their philanthropic dollars to environmental issues. Additionally, women in North America determine 80 percent of all household consumer purchases, a power which could be mobilized to significantly reduce carbon emissions through purchasing choices, including eliminating use of fossil fuels, polluting plastics, chemical laden foods, and other products whose continued use threaten our future.

Imagine women demanding a change away from endless economic growth models and from current consumption patterns that are destroying our Earth!

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These changes are needed around the globe, but most especially in the United States, which is responsible for at least two-thirds of all global consumption, and over 15% of global carbon emissions, with only about 4% of the global population.

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In the face of the current U.S. Trump Administration and its extreme and unacceptable stances in favor of climate denial, promotion of fossil fuel and extraction, bigotry, racism and sexism - we raise our voices ever louder and organize with evermore determination.

• Indigenous Women on the Frontlines: Report Backs and Calls To Action (2018)

• Women For Forests (2018, blog coming soon!)

• Rights of Nature: Protecting and Defending the Places We Live (2018, blog coming soon!)

• Reclaiming Our Democracy: Resistance and Renewal (2017)

• Women for Soils: Healthy Soils, Restorative Small-Scale Farming and Carbon Sequestration (2017)

• Bringing Power to the People: Women for 100% Renewable Energy (2016)

• Uplifting Rights of Nature to Protect Our Living Earth (2016)

• Direct Action and Non-Violent Civil Disobedience: Tools for Your Advocacy Work (2016)

• Health and Climate Change: What Is At Stake, What Can Be Done? (2016)

• 'We Are All Solar Sisters': Women for 100% Renewable Energy (2015)

• 'For Our Children & All Generations: Health & Climate Training Recap Day One' (2015)

• 'Health & Climate: Changing the Narrative - Training Recap Day Two' (2015)

• 'Resistance & Solutions: Women on the Frontlines Training Recap' (2015)

• 'Rights of Nature & Community Rights Training Resources' (2015)