GAGGA at COP30: A global call to advance gender-just climate action
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 and exclude those most impacted—women, girls, trans, intersex, and non-binary people. Furthermore, government and institutional funding isn’t working as it should: it’s often project-based, time-bound, and restricted.
GAGGA’s presence at COP30 is part of a long term effort to advocate and catalyze gender-just climate action. This year, our advocacy builds on nearly a decade of proven impact: channeling over €45 million to 2,300+ women-led community partners across 60 countries to restore ecosystems, secure food sovereignty, strengthen climate resilience and locally-led adaptation. As a catalyst, GAGGA has also launched over 2,330 bottom-up advocacy initiatives across its network of NGOs, funds, and local women’s groups.
GAGGA has built an infrastructure and global network of women’s funds, environmental justice funds and NGOs that enables women-led organizations to access the resources and support their need to confront the climate crisis, while ensuring their voices are heard in key decision-making spaces like COP30.
In 2025 alone, each major event has served as a platform to advocate for gender-just climate action, from International Development Week (Canada) to CSW69 (New York), and from London Climate Action Week (UK) to NYC Climate Week (U.S.).
GAGGA is in Belém to show that a different path exists – one where climate finance reaches women-led organizations on the frontlines, effectively delivering gender-just climate solutions. At COP30, we are here to:
- Elevate the leadership and impact of grassroots feminist movements driving climate justice on the ground.
- Expose and challenge false climate solutions that violate human rights.
- Redirect resources toward gender-just, community-led action.
- Uplift and amplify the voices of our frontline partners, recognizing that no solution is just without their leadership.
Content Hub
Dive deeper into the advocacy shaping GAGGA’s work at COP30. These articles, thought leadership pieces, case studies and other materials explore the systemic shifts needed to make climate finance truly just, equitable, and effective.
Climate change and gender justice backlash and advocacy
Challenging power relations in philanthropy
Policy brief: addressing the gender, conflict, climate nexus
Spotlighting at COP30: the impact of gender-just climate action
As part of GAGGA’s 2025 efforts to uplift women-led organizations at the frontline, we’re thrilled to share a documentary that demonstrates the tangible impact of our frontline partners. This short film spotlights the women defenders at the heart of GAGGA’s network — from Fiji to the Amazon — who are protecting land, water, and life itself. Their message is clear: climate justice begins where rights are defended.
Meet us at COP30
GAGGA’s participation at COP30 includes five critical side events that will highlight gender-just climate finance, locally-led adaptation, and the role of women-led organizations at the frontlines in shaping sustainable climate policy.
From Pledges to Locally-Led Climate Action: Gender-Just Indigenous Solutions for Forests and Climate Action
Co-hosted with the Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA), this event showcases Indigenous and women-led forest and climate solutions that are already halting deforestation and restoring ecosystems. It facilitates dialogues between community leaders, policy makers and funds, calling for direct, equitable finance to scale these locally led, gender-just models and turn global pledges into measurable community action.
Climate Policy for All: Advancing LGBTQ+ Inclusive and Gender-Transformative Climate Action
This dialogue explores how LGBTQ+ people, women, and other marginalized groups are leading inclusive, rights-based climate initiatives. Through case studies from Bangladesh and beyond, the session highlights intersectional, community-led approaches to adaptation, finance, and policy that leave no one behind.
Feminist Funding for Climate, Economic Justice & Resilience: Successful Approaches from the Ground
This event, co-organized by GAGGA partners Tierra Viva and the Rural Women’s Assembly, alongside Fundo Agbara and Instituto Baixada Maranhense, GAGGA will explore successful approaches to funding local feminist climate and economic justice initiatives. What strategies have proven effective, why do they work, and how can funders better strengthen and build upon these grassroots models? The discussion will be grounded in the experiences of local voices from Brazil, South Africa, the Philippines and Central America.
Canada’s Climate Finance for Global South Grassroots Action
Women’s rights organizations, women-led community organizations, and feminist movements are designing and delivering solutions that tackle the climate crisis on multiple fronts. With deep ties to their communities, they offer context-specific solutions that are built to last. Their focus on root causes means they have the ability to advance climate solutions, gender equality, and human rights simultaneously. And they get concrete results that improve lives. With funding from the Government of Canada, organizations like the Equality Fund, the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action, and KAIROS support this grassroots, transformative climate action.
Exploring the Conflict, Gender, Climate Nexus: Policies and financing for a locally led approach
At the intersection of climate change, conflict, and rising authoritarianism, women and girls face disproportionate impacts, including increased violence and diminished resources. Strengthening women’s leadership is vital to building resilience and peace.
Join GAGGA and frontline women leaders for a critical dialogue on unlocking policies and finance for a locally-led approach. This session will feature new FCDO-supported research from GAGGA and firsthand accounts to provide donors with concrete recommendations for supporting gender-just climate action in the world’s most vulnerable contexts.
Amplify on social media: GAGGA’s COP30 Toolkit
Use this #GAGGAatCOP30 Advocacy Toolkit to amplify the voices of grassroots feminist movements and champion our collective calls to action. Inside, you’ll find to help you share why gender-just, community-led climate action must be at the heart of global climate policy.
We believe in the power of collective advocacy — and with this toolkit, we invite you to stand with the women, girls, trans, intersex, and non-binary leaders already driving climate justice on the ground.
Join the movement online: Follow GAGGA on LinkedIn to stay updated, share the toolkit and amplify our collective message by reposting, tagging partners and replicating advocacy materials across your networks.
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Attending COP30 in-person? Connect with us!
Interested in learning more about our initiatives or partnering with GAGGA at COP30?
Whether it’s to connect with our partners, request an interview, or join our events, we’d love to hear from you!
For any inquiries or collaborations, please get in touch with:
- Leah Moss, Senior Policy Strategist, Mama Cash – an alliance member of GAGGA; l.moss@mamacash.org
- Daan Robben, Senior Policy Officer, Both ENDS – an alliance member of GAGGA; d.robben@bothends.org
- Ana Alves, Project and Program Coordinator, Both ENDS – an alliance member of GAGGA; a.alves@bothends.org
- Noemi Grütter, Advocacy and Partnerships Consultant, GAGGA, n.grutter@fcamfoundation.org