All the important links and information you need to understand the WGC work at COP28! Daily Meeting – 09:00-10:00, Side Event Room 7 WGC Twitter: https://twitter.com/WGC_Climate WGC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wgc_climate/ WGC YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChyLXJJ4mwxr5Z3lLxoqo0Q/f –> MENA Feminist Demands –> WGC Feminist Demands for Climate Justice Coming soon –> WGC Issue Briefs Coming soon –> WGC Submissions… Read More
The Women and Gender Constituency will host the first ever Women and Gender Blue Zone Pavilion at COP28! With great intention – we aim for this space to showcase a deep vision for what a feminist, gender just and climate just future looks like. On each day, you will find both open spaces for conspiring,… Read More
For the second consecutive year, the United Nations climate negotiations, known as COP28, will be hosted in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Capitalizing on the momentum in the region after COP27 in Egypt and with COP28 in Dubai, UAE this year, MENA feminists, gender and climate advocates are using this pivotal movement… Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 14th September 2023 New York, NY – The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC), a rights-based network that advocates for gender-just climate solutions, is deeply concerned about the promotion of speculative, risky, and dangerous technologies from the new report released by the “Climate Overshoot Commission” days before the beginning of the UN Climate… Read More
For years, the Women and Gender Constituency has been on a journey towards nurturing a diverse community of feminists and gender advocates. COP27 hosted in Egypt served as a unique opportunity for the WGC to move the inclusion needle a step further by creating and resourcing a dedicated African Feminist Taskforce (AFT)—now called Africa WGC…. Read More
The Supervisory Body for the sustainable development mechanism (Art. 6.4) is meeting from 31st May to 3rd June. We expect them to work on more detailed rules for market mechanisms that are still consistent with keeping the 1.5°C goal and protecting human and Indigenous Peoples’ rights. We call for a clear push-back on removals being… Read More
Feminists and grassroots activists are at the frontlines of movements and solutions addressing the climate crisis around the world. They are forging pathways towards true climate justice through their stories of fierce struggle. To share such stories that center human rights, gender equality and the integrity of the environment, the Women and Gender Constituency, WEDO,… Read More
November 20, 2022 Sharm El Sheik, Egypt – As feminists and women’s rights advocates strategized daily to advocate for gender-just and human rights based climate action, negotiators once again ignored the urgency of our current climate crisis. While we acknowledge that developing countries, grassroots movements and civil society pushed forward a once unthinkable collective demand… Read More
On 14 November — Gender Day at COP27 — the annual Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards were given to three recipients from across the globe: Yokoumi from Togo (Technical Solutions); The Sindh Community Foundation in Pakistan (Non-technical Solutions), and the Keystone Foundation in India (Transformational Solutions). These annual awards highlight the fact that ambitious climate… Read More
11 November, 2022 Download the WGC GAP statement here. The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) joined UNFCCC meetings this year to engage in a substantive review of progress and challenges in implementation of the five-year gender action plan (GAP). We coordinated among our network of hundreds of gender experts and frontline women leaders and came… Read More
10 November 2022 Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt — Advocates from diverse constituencies gathered today from across civil society and climate justice groups at the middle of the COP27 venue to protest the many silenced voices at the climate negotiations. “We are here today as feminists, as activists, and as members of different constituencies and civil society… Read More
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt — As part of a Human Rights Day of Action, The Women & Gender Constituency and allies will be holding a cross-constituency planned protest within the COP27 venue to call attention to the many silenced voices at COP27. This direct action will highlight and honor the thousands of activists, political prisoners, and… Read More
Response to Article 6 Paragraph 4 9 November, 2022 | COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt The Women and Gender Constituency is highly concerned about the content and process of the Article 6.4 recommendation document prepared by the Supervisory Body (SB) and sent for consideration and adoption at COP27. The document produced did not respect the inclusive,… Read More
The Women and Gender Constituency is proud to be supporting a delegation of frontline and grassroots African leaders and feminist advocates to participate at COP27 and to raise the demands and voices of the African Feminist Taskforce. Semia Gharbi (Tunisia) Semia Gharbi is the chair of a national NGO, the Association of Environmental Education for… Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 4 November, 2022 Contact: Lindsay Bigda, lindsay@wedo.org | WhatsApp +1 207-385-7924 A coalition of feminist activists from the Women & Gender Constituency (WGC), one of the nine official UNFCCC observer groups, has launched a set of collective demands for climate justice ahead of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), to… Read More
Produced by the Women & Gender Constituency, this events list contains gender-related events at COP27. The list is organized by date and time. All times are in local time. Many events will be live-streamed on the COP27 YouTube Channel. Please feel free to use and share.
As feminists, gender equality and women’s rights advocates from around the world—led by and accountable to the demands of frontlines, Indigenous and grassroots leaders—members of the Women and Gender Constituency have outlined below our key demands for the outcomes of COP27. As always, we uphold that there can be no climate justice without gender justice… Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 18 October, 2022 Contact: Zukiswa White, zukiswa@womengenderclimate.org A coalition of African feminist activists has launched a set of collective demands for meaningful accountability and action for climate change ahead of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as COP27, to be held in Egypt from 6-18 November. More… Read More
After six years, the 2022 climate negotiations are now back on the African continent at this critical time of multiple global crises. Today, a coalition of more than 150 African feminist activists launched 27 demands for just climate action, calling for greater responsibility and urgency ahead of the climate summit (#COP27) to be held in… Read More
Gender Equality & Feminist Events Overview Produced by the Women & Gender Constituency, this events list contains WGC events at SB56 as well as events on gender equality and feminist climate action. The list is organized by date and time. All times are in Germany time/CEST. Events marked with an asterisk* indicate that a WGC… Read More