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Gender-just climate finance: from barriers to actionable solutions This event took place on Thursday, 4 Nov 2021. You can watch the full recording here. With gender-responsiveness a work in progress, current climate funds are hardly accessible for women-led community based organizations. While these groups lack access to finance and decision-making, they already lead bold holisticContinue reading “Join our COP26 side event on gender-just climate finance”

*Scroll down for links to the blogs. When climate-related disasters like hurricanes, floods or droughts strike, those who are most impacted are often the communities who are least responsible for climate change. The climate emergency is a symptom of a much larger and older crisis of social, gender and racial inequality that dates back toContinue reading “Blog series: Putting justice at the heart of climate action”

With extreme weather events impacting every region of the world in recent months and stark warnings from the latest IPCC report, one thing is more clear than ever: now is the time for governments, investors, and donors to take urgent climate action. Ahead of the UN climate negotiations in just a few days, we callContinue reading “October 2021 Newsletter: Now is the time for urgent climate action”

Story highlights Since the early 1990s, coal mines have sprung up around Adivasi or Indigenous communities in India’s Chhattisgarh state without their consent, affecting their livelihoods, relationship with their forests and health. Savita Rath, a local human rights activist in the GAGGA network, works directly with women in mining-affected villages to strengthen their capacity andContinue reading “Adivasi women from mining-affected forests say “no” to coal”

Story highlights Facing category 5 cyclones, prolonged drought, and displacement at the hands of multinational mining and gas companies, rural women in Mozambique and their communities are playing an active and critical role in local climate action — showing how women’s rights and climate justice are intrinsically linked. As those who hold ancestral knowledge andContinue reading “Women in Mozambique lead local climate action from the inside”

Story highlights Rural communities in Nicaragua are facing food and water insecurity as climate change causes more powerful and destructive storms, and prolonged drought. La Cuculmeca, a partner of GAGGA’s lead organization FCAM, is providing a platform for local women and community voices to inform and influence local, national and international level actors on climateContinue reading “From local action to national advocacy, women in Nicaragua build climate resilience”

350.org joins the GAGGA network as a strategic ally that is working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all. 350.org’s global campaigns director, Aggy Hall, spoke to us about how the organization’s Just Recovery work can support GAGGA’s new strategies and the importance of anContinue reading “A conversation with 350.org”

The Women’s Environment and Development Organization, or WEDO, joins the GAGGA network as a strategic ally and a global advocacy organization that has focused on women’s rights and environmental justice for over 30 years. WEDO’s director, Bridget Burns, spoke to us about the strengths that their organization brings to the network and how they’re excitedContinue reading “A conversation with WEDO”

Globally, women and girl environmental defenders (WGEDs) play a significant role in combating environmental injustice and the climate crisis; their work is crucial to defending land, territories, bodies of water, and critical ecosystems. However, they do so at great risk to their lives and well-being, and that of their communities. According to a recent reportContinue reading “Report key findings: Women environmental defenders on structural violence”