Collective Advocacy

A reflection from GAGGA on the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta — and what must come next. For five days, the coastal city of Santa Marta, Colombia held the world’s attention. From 24 April to 29 April 2026, governments, multilateral organisations, and civil society gathered for the First ConferenceContinue reading “Beyond the Fossil Fuel Phase-Out: GAGGA’s Call for a Feminist, Locally-Led Just Transition After Santa Marta”

As the world gathers in Belém, Brazil, for COP30, the stakes for gender-just climate action are higher than ever, while the climate crisis continues to outpace our ability to respond.  Rather than tackling this global crisis as a collective, selective solutions are being funded and advanced that often fail to solve the root causes andContinue reading “GAGGA at COP30: A global call to advance gender-just climate action”

Climate action cannot succeed without justice. Around the world, women, Indigenous Peoples, and local communities are defending ecosystems, advancing climate solutions, and building more resilient futures. Yet they continue to receive only a fraction of global climate funding. At London Climate Action Week (LCAW), the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) is joiningContinue reading “GAGGA at London Climate Action Week: Calling for Climate Finance That Reaches the Frontlines”

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”