GAGGA at London Climate Action Week: Calling for Climate Finance That Reaches the Frontlines
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 joining partners and allies to push for a fundamental shift in how climate finance is distributed – so that resources reach the people and movements already leading transformative change on the ground.
GAGGA will convene partners, funders, and movement leaders to explore what it takes to shift climate finance closer to the frontlines, in the hands of women-led community based organizations. Through a series of three interconnected events, we will examine how funding can better support gender-just, community-led climate action and highlight the impact that becomes possible when resources reach the people most affected by the climate crisis.
Together, the three events trace a journey from the broad challenge of mobilizing climate finance at scale to the specific barriers that prevent funding from reaching and benefiting frontline communities. The series begins by examining how philanthropy and climate finance can be deployed in ways that are effective, equitable, and responsive to local realities on June 22 with Funding Climate Action at Scale: Lessons from Effective Global Philanthropy, hosted with Alliance Magazine. It then zooms in on the critical role of Indigenous women’s leadership, highlighting how communities on the frontlines of climate change are already driving transformative solutions but remain chronically underfunded, on June 23, Reimagining Climate Finance Through Centering Indigenous Women’s Leadership (invite only), co-hosted by GAGGA, Mama Cash, and IFIP. Finally, the discussion turns to the intersection of gender-based violence and climate change, exploring how violence and discrimination undermine the effectiveness of climate investments by limiting women’s participation, leadership, safety, and access to resources on June 24 with Addressing the Intersections of Gender-Based Violence and Climate Change (invite only), co-hosted with SDD, Womanity, and 2X Global. By connecting these themes, the series demonstrates that achieving impactful climate action requires not only increasing funding flows, but also addressing the structural inequalities that prevent resources from reaching and empowering those best positioned to lead resilient, community-driven responses.
- Funding climate action at scale: lessons from effective global philanthropy
- When: June 22 at 10-2pm (BST)
- Hosted by: GAGGA and Alliance Magazine
- Speakers include:
- Sonia Medina, Chief Ecosystem Development Officer and Executive Director, Climate, CIFF
- Juliana Tinoco, Executive Coordinator, Socio-Environmental Funds of the Global South (Alianza Fondos del Sur) / The Global South House
- Florencia, Ortuzar, AIDA Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense, GAGGA partner organisation
- Moderated by Elika Roohi, Alliance Magazine
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- Reimagining Climate Finance Through Centering Indigenous Women’s Leadership
- When: June 23 at 10.45-12.45pm GMT
- Hosted by International Funders of Indigenous Peoples, Mama Cash, and GAGGA
- While this is a closed-door event, those interested in learning more or exploring whether participation may be appropriate are welcome to contact Noemi Grütter at [email protected]
- Integrating Gender-Based Violence into Climate Finance
- When: June 24 13.30-15.30 BST
- Hosted by Social Development Direct, 2X Global, Womanity, and GAGGA
- While this is a closed-door event, those interested in learning more or exploring whether participation may be appropriate are welcome to contact Noemi Grütter at [email protected]
LCAW coincides with GAGGA’s 10th anniversary – a decade of resourcing, strengthening, and amplifying feminist, Indigenous, and community-led movements advancing climate and environmental justice. Together with our partners, we have channelled more than €50 million to community-based organisations across the Global South, strengthened the capacities of 2,500+ community-based organisations, and supported more than 2,360 advocacy initiatives driving change from the ground up. These milestones are not an endpoint. They demonstrate what is possible when resources reach frontline communities, transformative change follows – and why we are calling for even greater investment in gender-just climate action through Fund Forward.
Resources on Gender-Just Climate Finance
The conversations taking place at London Climate Action Week build on years of learning from grassroots partners, feminist movements, Indigenous leaders, and climate justice advocates around the world. Looking to dive deeper? Explore GAGGA’s latest briefings and thought leadership pieces.
- Briefings:
- Thought leadership pieces:
- Alliance Magazine: Philanthropy’s defining test: from risk aversion to climate and gender justice (June 2026)
- Alliance Magazine: Rethinking scale: what alliances teach us about scale without centralisation (May 2026)
- Women’s Funding Network: Trust the leaders already there (June 2026)
Attending LCAW in-person? Connect with us!
Interested in learning more about our initiatives or partnering with GAGGA? We’d love to connect – reach out to Noemi Grütter at [email protected].