Gender equality and women’s human rights are fundamental to combating climate change

Over the past several years of the international climate change negotiations it has been established and agreed by governments across the world, who are Parties to the UNFCCC, that gender equality and ensuring women’s human rights are necessary to effectively act on climate change mitigation and adaptation. Read More

News

SB62 Exit Statement

July 10, 2025

The Women and Gender Constituency is left SB62 with mixed feelings. While we appreciate the constructive spirit which drove forward progress in Gender and Just Transition, we are deeply concerned with the lack of progress in other agendas, including adaptation and climate finance. We remain particularly concerned with the shrinking civic space, the continuous censorship… Read More

Civil Society Protest Against UNFCCC’s Arbitrary Censorship of Solidarity with Palestine

June 24, 2025

To: All Parties to the UNFCCC Cc: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat Bonn, 20th June 2025 Subject: Civil Society Protest Against UNFCCC’s Arbitrary Censorship of Solidarity with Palestine Your Excellencies, We write to you today with grave concern and indignation. As civil society, we have been a part of the UNFCCC… Read More

COP30 Presidency, This Will Not Stand

June 21, 2025

The COP30 Presidency’s disregard for gender equality: It is of deep concern to the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) that the COP30 Presidency continues to disregard gender equality and women’s rights and it undermines the principles of climate justice and gender-responsive climate action. Despite the Presidency’s formal mandate to deliver an ambitious, renewed Gender Action… Read More

Launching the Latin America and Caribbean Feminist Taskforce

June 18, 2025

A Regional Call for Climate Justice on the Road to COP30 As we approach COP30 in Brazil, feminist, indigenous, Afro-descendant, and LGBTQI+ voices have come together to launch the Latin America and Caribbean chapter of the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC). This historic moment marks not just an organisational milestone, but a clear declaration that… Read More

From Tokenism to Transformation: A Feminist Reckoning on the Gender Action Plan

June 17, 2025

Perspectives from WGC Advocacy Network by Felicitus Okoko In the vast architecture of climate negotiations, gender often arrives last, tucked under “co-benefits” or buried in technical annexes. But for the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC), gender is not an afterthought. It is the framework, the strategy, and the soul of real climate justice. And in… Read More

Women & Gender at SB62 in Bonn

June 16, 2025

Climate Talks in Bonn (SB62) from 16 – 26 June As climate negotiations resume at SB62 in Bonn, we are clear: gender justice is climate justice. With the development of a new Gender Action Plan expected to commence and key negotiations, including adaptation and just transition, expected to make substantial progress, time to deliver transformative,… Read More

Join the WGC Advocacy List (feminist network)

The Women and Gender Constituency hosts an ‘advocacy list’ which is open to members of civil society who agree to our advocacy principles and communication guidelines and who would like to engage in advocacy on all aspects of international climate policy and gender equality. To join this list, please complete the form via this link.

You will be reviewed and added to the list within one week.