Women’s Environment & Development Organization
A feminist global advocacy org for #GenderJustice, #EnvironmentalJustice and #ClimateJustice 🌱
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- Today, govts meet in D.C. for a “Critical Minerals Summit” focused on transatlantic cooperation to secure lithium, cobalt & other so-called “critical” minerals for the #EnergyTransition. As priorities are set, we ask: Who benefits? Who bears the cost? Whose voices are deliberately excluded? (1/5)
- “The power of our people is alive in this process.” The new #COP30 Belém #GenderActionPlan (GAP) & #BelémActionMechanism exist because feminists, trade unions, Indigenous Peoples, youth & environmental defenders refused to give up. These outcomes contain hard-won tools. 👉 Read our full statement:
- 🌿 WEDO's Alex Gordon gives a live update from #COP30 on where things stand with Adaptation and why this is such a critical topic for feminist climate justice! #Adaptation #FeministClimateJustice #GlobalGoalOnAdaptation #AdaptationIndicators #BelemCOP
- We need to "deliver a coherent & resourced Gender Action Plan. That's ... the only GAP we want in Belém." - Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland, Member of @theelders.bsky.social From press conference: Delivering a Gender Action Plan at COP30 – Current State of Play ▶️ bit.ly/GAP-Press
- As week 2 of #COP30 kicks off, feminists, Indigenous Peoples, youth, environmental movements, trade unions, & more are holding their breath to see if the climate negotiations can finally deliver something that makes a just transition. Learn more: bit.ly/3XAsinX #JustTransition #BAM
- 💪 Feminists Demand #ClimateJustice! WEDO and the WGC took to the streets of #Belém with Brazilian feminists, Indigenous Peoples, Quilombolas, campesinas & other regional voices to demand a #GenderJustTransition in first march outside the #COP30 venue since COP29. #PeoplesMarchCOP30
- Join us tomorrow at #COP30 to meet the women safeguarding the world's most vital biomes: the Guardiãs da Terra. 🌱 Hear their stories, their solutions, and their calls for the resources and political will needed to keep their territories alive. 📅 14 November 🕐 13:30 PM 📍 Press Conference Room 2
- Nov. 13 at #COP30, join us as we draw connections between #Patriarchy, #Militarism, #Colonialism, an ethic of #Care & a gender-just approach: Feminist Analysis of #JustTransition | 16:00–17:00 | ILO Pavilion amwaafrika.bsky.social christianaiduk.bsky.social menafem.bsky.social #GenderJustTransition
- Negotiations for a renewed #GenderActionPlan kicked off yesterday at #COP30. Governments have the opportunity to make #GenderEquality central to climate action. No GAP will be revolutionary on its own, but if done right, it can be a catalyst for change: bit.ly/49bz1vJ
- The WEDO team is in #Belém for #COP30 to advocate for systemic, cohesive & gender-responsive climate policy decisions. To prepare, members of the WEDO delegation share what they expect from the #GenderEquality, #JustTransition, #ClimateFinance, and #Adaptation negotiation items at COP30.
- Join us Sun., Nov. 9 at 4 pm ET for a media briefing on What's At Stake for #GenderEquality at #COP30 — Renewing the #UNFCCC #GenderActionPlan: (All registrants will receive the recording & materials.) 👉 Register & learn more: bit.ly/4ozg4rM #Belem #GenderJustTransition #GenderJusticeDay
- The Global Feminist Convening in Rabat in May resulted in the Rabat Declaration and Roadmap: a feminist economic and climate justice advocacy agenda and a comprehensive vision for solidarity, liberation & sovereignty of the Global Majority. Endorse it at: rabat.wedo.org @menafem.bsky.social
- 🎉 New Critical Conversation with Thoko Madonko, feminist economist and public educator, whose work on care economies, public services, and gender-responsive budgeting, particularly in the Southern African context. ▶️ Watch the interview at: wedo.org/conversations #FeministEconomics #ClimateJustice
- More mining to produce cleaner energy will mean more abuses, unless action is taken at the #UNFCCC. 200 CSOs call on #COP30 leaders to ensure strong, inclusive governance of transition minerals! 👉 bit.ly/46VmcUR #JustMinerals #JustTransition #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateJustice
- From colonization to excessive carbon emissions, the Global North has created the #ClimateCrisis. People & communities in the South are paying the price. It’s time for the Global North to #PayUp in public, grant-based #ClimateFinance, free from conditionalities, new & additional. #ClimateFinanceNow
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- Read our new brief examining the gendered impacts of World Bank & IMF policy in the MENA region: bit.ly/MENA-Brief By advocating for gender-responsive approaches & calling for decolonization of economic structures, we endeavor to advance #GenderEquality, #SocialJustice & #SustainableDevelopment
- As World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings begin today in DC, the Bretton Woods Project has released a brief analyzing the IMF’s evolving approach to gender. While there's been an increase in narratives around social & gender impacts, current policy responses are inadequate. 📄: bit.ly/42C1mHs
- "The Fund should recognize that #LossesAndDamages are human rights violations ... [and] must urgently develop policies to do no harm and ensure inclusive, participatory & accountable operations that protect ecosystems, #HumanRights & include Indigenous People." bit.ly/3VWSpVy
- Join us on October 2 for a dialogue & call to action for feminist economic alternatives that prioritize wellbeing and the planet. Register: forms.office.com/e/sHJJrahKgg
- *NEW* research finds the U.S. federal government hands fossil fuel billionaires $35B in annual tax breaks + giveaways. Instead of ensuring affordable renewable energy for all, the U.S. is paying Big Oil to torch our climate + poison communities. oilchange.org/paying-for-climate-…
- Join us for #GlobalWeekofAction (Sept 15–21) under the #DrawTheLine banner, when people rise up to demand system change: for #GenderJustice, #CleanEnergy, #HumanRights, and #ClimateFutures that work for communities. #FeministFuturesNow #FeministClimateJustice
- This September 17, we rise to resist, reclaim & reimagine our futures together with the Women & Gender Constituency. 💪 Our power lies in collective feminist action that creates change. We resist rollbacks through solidarity, community, and collective feminist power. #DrawTheLine #FeministFuturesNow
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- Join us on Tuesday as we, in partnership with @menafem.bsky.social, officially launch the Rabat Roadmap and hear from a powerful lineup of speakers, as part of the #GlobalWeekOfAction and #DrawTheLine campaign. 📅 Tuesday, 18 September 🕐 13:30-15:00 UTC+1 🔗 Register: bit.ly/RabatLaunch
- 🌍 Join the Women & Gender Constituency in Addis Ababa on September 7! African women leaders, innovators & changemakers will gather on a special Gender Day to spotlight women’s leadership, solutions & demands for a gender-just climate future. Register: forms.gle/aJyVfNzsG8oUD4yz9
- Without deliberate efforts to embed #HumanRights + #GenderEquality, the #EnergyTransition risks replicating the same patterns of harm seen under the #FossilFuel paradigm. Register for the virtual discussion on Sept. 4: bit.ly/3JCPNsX
- 📊 Join the Gender and Environment Data Alliance (GEDA) this Friday, Sept. 5, on the sidelines of Africa Climate Week in Addis Ababa, for an exploration of how gender and environment data are crucial to effective and inclusive climate action. RSVP by Sept. 4, at: bit.ly/GEDA-ACW
- "There should be a mechanism to ensure that justice starts from the extraction point." – Mela Chiponda, in our latest Critical Conversation » Critical Minerals: Extracting Injustice from "Clean" Energy ▶️ Watch: wedo.org/conversations #GreenEnergy #JustEnergy #EnergyJustice #CriticalMinerals
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- 📊 At #HLPF side-event in July, GEDA brought together a diverse group to discuss #GenderEnvironmentData for inclusive & #SustainableDevelopment. Participants stressed the importance of evidence in making a case for reform & affirmed that communities impacted by climate crises are agents of change.
- 💬 New Critical Conversations — We spoke with Mela Chiponda, human rights defender and #EnergyJustice advocate based Zimbabwe, who has worked for decades challenging exploitative mining projects and their impacts on communities. ▶️ Watch the full interview: wedo.org/conversations #CriticalMinerals
- Dear @cyrilramaphosabsky.bsky.social, With the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in Durban, this is the moment for decisive action that history will remember. You have the power to lead a bold response. #G20SouthAfrica must lead the way in creating an economy for the many, not the few.
- "We don’t need 1 mythic number to make the case for gender-responsive #ClimateAction. The truth is compelling enough. #Disasters – like #ClimateChange itself – are not gender-neutral ... When we understand this, we can build better policies to respond." Read more: bit.ly/Myth14x
- Join the Gender and Environment Data Alliance's event at the High-Level Political Forum on July 18 to dig into gender-environment data within the context of the Agenda 2030! 📊 Register here: bit.ly/HLPF-GEDA (before July 15) #SDGs #SustainableDevelopment #GenderEnvironmentData
- "What we call ‘natural disasters’ are not freak occurrences of nature, but the consequence of human-made vulnerabilities and decisions shaped by inequality, exploitation, and systemic injustice. Not everyone bears the brunt equally" – Mwanahamisi Singano, WEDO Policy Director More: wedo.org/DRR2025
- The #feminist vision of #ClimateJustice & #EconomicJustice seeks a transition from an economic system centered on extraction & unlimited growth to one that prioritizes care. Read about connections between climate justice, feminist economics, resource justice & degrowth: bit.ly/ClimateFinanceAnalysis
- As we collectively prepare for #COP30, it's crucial that women in all their diversities not only have a voice but also shape outcomes in international policymaking. We proudly supported 4 advocates from Latin America & the Caribbean to attend #SB62 & advance #FeministClimateJustice.
- At the latest #ClimateNegotiations #SB62, something rare happened: hope. After years of feminist advocacy, #JustTransitionWorkProgramme is poised to move from words to action. The draft decision for #COP30 includes building blocks of a global #JustTransition mechanism. Dive into why this matters:
