GAGGA Campaigns

The #GAGGAatCOP29 #WeWomenAreWater campaign is a powerful call to amplify the voices of these women frontline defenders and demand that climate finance is restructured to meet their needs.

Gender just climate action and solutions are in urgent need of your support Women, girls, trans, intersex, and non-binary people from local and Indigenous communities are at the forefront of fighting for climate and environmental justice against false climate solutions. The time is now to resource the transformative climate solutions led by women, girls, inter,Continue reading “#WeWomenAreWater: GAGGA’s Call To Action At CSW68”

Gender just climate action and solutions are in urgent need of your support Women, girls, trans, intersex, and non-binary people from local and Indigenous communities are at the forefront of fighting for climate and environmental justice against false climate solutions. The time is now to resource the transformative climate solutions led by women, girls, inter,Continue reading “We Women Are Water – Call To Action To Support And Finance Gender Just Climate Action”

  Around the world, women-led initiatives are demonstrating how to protect and restore one of our most vital resources: water.  These transformative initiatives need massive support and resources, while false climate solutions, privatization of water resources, pollution from extractive industries and human rights violations must stop immediately.  Narrated by women from the communities affected themselves, the We Women areContinue reading “Let’s raise up solutions that strive to achieve gender and climate justice! We Women are Water”

On World Water Day 2022, the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) hosted an NGO CSW Forum event on its #WeWomenAreWater social media campaign. The 2022 campaign amplified gender-just climate solutions related to water and the urgent need for international financial institutions and climate funds to resource them. This session took place on theContinue reading “NGO CSW66 Forum event recording | #WeWomenAreWater campaign”

Long story short: The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is investing in new tree plantations across seven target countries in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, including in Paraguay. In Paraguay, different actors — from agribusiness to NGOs — have already been imposing eucalyptus monoculture plantations on Indigenous lands and causing water scarcity, a loss of biodiversity, andContinue reading “Qom women organise to preserve their territory in the Paraguayan Chaco”

Long story short:  International financial institutions such as the Inter-American Development Bank continue to invest in the false climate solution of biofuel production, which has long been known to increase greenhouse gas emissions, compete with food production for land and water, and displace local communities. These institutions must shift their resources towards the true, gender-just climateContinue reading “Mayan Ch’orti’ women recover their territorial rights and water access”

Long story short: The governments of China and the Philippines are building a “climate resilient” dam that will displace the Indigenous Dumagat-Remontado people and affect their way of life, while emitting significant amounts of greenhouse gases. Institutions investing in dams would do better to shift their resources towards the true, gender-just climate solution implemented by theContinue reading “Dumagat women use non-timber forest products to mitigate and adapt to climate change”

Long story short: International financial institutions continue to invest in fossil fuel extraction which is driving the climate crisis to dangerous levels and polluting local communities’ water, and therefore, affecting their livelihoods, health and food sources. These institutions must shift their resources towards the true, gender-just climate solution being implemented by women and girls in theContinue reading “Women restore mangrove forests in the Niger Delta”

Long story short: International financial institutions such as the Asian Development Bank and European Investment Bank continue to invest in the false climate solution of large-scale hydropower, which often displaces local communities and is a significant source of greenhouse gases. These institutions must shift their resources towards the true, gender-just climate solutions of Indigenous territorialContinue reading “Magar women use Indigenous knowledge to mitigate climate change impacts”