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09/11/2025
As COP30 opens in Belém, the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) has released its Key Demands for COP30, outlining what feminist implementation must look like across the UNFCCC.
At a time of climate emergency and anti-rights backlash, feminist advocates are calling for governments to move from rhetoric to action, delivering outcomes grounded in rights, care, and justice.
The WGC’s 11 thematic demands call for:
An ambitious Gender Action Plan (GAP) that drives measurable, gender-transformative action and secures resources for implementation.
Gender-responsive adaptation with strong indicators, scaled-up finance, and inclusive National Adaptation Plans.
A feminist Just Transition that dismantles extractive and patriarchal systems, centers care and consent, and launches the Belém Action Mechanism.
Public, non-debt climate finance that reaches women and frontline communities through transparent, equitable mechanisms.
A bottom-up Global Stocktake that centers feminist, Indigenous, and community leadership.
Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) that promotes intergenerational justice and transformative education.
Gender-responsive technology transfer that ensures participation, equity, and access.
Divestment from militarism and fossil fuels and reinvestment in peace, care, and just transitions.
Accelerated mitigation efforts through feminist, rights-based NDCs and community-led renewable energy.
Rejection of false solutions such as carbon markets and offsets that harm people and ecosystems.
Integration of health and SRHR across all climate frameworks.
At COP30, feminists are clear: there is no climate justice without gender justice.
12/11/2025
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