GLOBAL WOMEN'S ASSEMBLY FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: ‘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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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!: 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.