Women’s Environment & Development Organization

From Gas to Care: Why public money should fund women, not fossil fuels. 9 March, 11 GMT. Join us for our upcoming webinar to explore how fossil fuel financing shapes public spending priorities and why redirecting public money toward care economies and gender-just energy transitions is both urgent and necessary.

The Big Shift Global: People over profits; from gas to care; gas is a fossil fuel

Mara from Team WEDO will speak at "From Gas to Care" on Mon, 11 GMT. The discussion will highlight why redirecting public resources toward care economies & renewable, community-led energy systems is essential for a just, gender-transformative transition.

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White text on teal background: "Without rights-based approaches, we cannot achieve climate mitigation or resilience." Below a photo of two women holding hands and smiling at a protest. Logos for WEDO and Recourse along the bottom.

Without rights-based approaches, we cannot achieve climate mitigation or resilience.

@wedo-worldwide.bsky.social is a leading advocate for climate finance that advances gender equality.

Learn more about their feminist work: re-course.org/newsupdates/iwd2026/

#IWD2026 #ClimateFinance

For 35+ years, we have worked alongside movements around the world to advance #GenderEquality, #EnvironmentalJustice & #HumanRights. Our updated site brings together research, tools & stories that shape this work across global policy spaces, grassroots movements & feminist solutions on the ground.

Our new website is live! wedo.org

🌟 Same mission. Fresh look.

Today, we’re launching an updated website and a refreshed visual identity that reflect where our work is now and where feminist climate and environmental justice are going next.

Explore the updated site: wedo.org

📢 Join @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social for the launch of the 2025 Feminist Critical Trends Report & a strategy session on feminist economic + climate justice.

🗓 25 Feb, 2-4pm GMT

🌍 EN/FR/ES/AR

Register: bit.ly/TrendsLaunch2025

#FeministEconomics #ClimateJustice #EconomicJustice #FeministEvent

Press release: 1,200+ Feminist Organisations and Allies Call on Major Powers to Pay Up and Defend the United Nations - Women's Major Group Calls on all United Nations' members to fulfil their financial obligations and reject the use of non-payment as political leverage.

The Women’s Major Group, with 566 organisations & 697 individuals, issued a feminist statement warning that powerful Member States are using non-payment of obligations as political leverage, placing the #UnitedNations at risk amid escalating global crises.
#PayUp #Multilateralism #HumanRights

Published annually since 2023, the report provides highlights of seven key areas:
1️⃣ Tax
2️⃣ Trade
3️⃣ Debt
4️⃣ Corporate capture
5️⃣ Global economic governance
6️⃣ Feminist climate finance
7️⃣ Systems change required to achieve care for people and planet

#FeministEconomicJustice #FeministClimateJustice

WEBINAR — Feminist Critical Trends Report Launch & Strategy Session Feb 25, 2026 | 9-11AM ET // 14:00-16:00 UTC Register: bit.ly/Trends2025Webinar

Join our Feminist Trends Report Launch Webinar on Wed., Feb. 25 to explore a snapshot of the challenges & progress in moving towards feminist economic & ecological justice.

Register: bit.ly/Trends2025Webinar

Get involved: Sign the joint statement by Monday, 16 February at 7:00 CET. Share with your networks to get more signatures.

🕓 Sign on by 1 AM EST / 7 AM CET on Monday, 16 February: bit.ly/UN-SignOn

While imperfect, we need multilateralism The UN is in urgent need of reform, but it is the only existing global, rules-based, intergovernmental system providing a platform for cooperation on challenges like: - peacekeeping - conflict prevention - human rights protection - humanitarian response - climate action

Feminists call on Member States to: 1. Pay their legal financial obligations. 2. Prevent institutional collapse. 3. Put pressure on the U.S. and other Member States to pay their dues.

600+ organizations and individuals from 89 countries have signed this joint feminist statement by Women's Major Group, which calls on UN Member States to:
1️⃣ Pay their legal financial obligations.
2️⃣ Prevent institutional collapse.
3️⃣ Put pressure on the U.S. and other Member States to pay their dues.

UN FACES IMMINENT FINANCIAL COLLAPSE — Member States must pay up. Sign on!

Core UN operations could be disrupted by mid-2026: 1. Under-funding is a political tool. Member States are using deliberate non-payment as leverage against global governance, democracy, and human rights. 2. More than 95% of what is owed to the UN’s regular budget is owed by the United States. 3. Only 55 of 193 Member States have paid their assessed contributions in full.

A weakened UN threatens feminist gains and undermines systems that people rely on for protection, accountability, and global cooperation. The erosion of multilateral institutions deepens insecurity and shifts risks and costs onto people.

🚨 Feminist civil society is raising the alarm about the imminent financial collapse of the United Nations.

A weakened UN threatens feminist gains, multilateralism, democracy, and human rights amid escalating global crises.

#DefendMultilateralism #PayUp

Critical Conversations: Feminist Perspectives on a Just Transition - WEDO The Women's Global Call for Climate Justice is a global campaign organized collectively by a group of regionally diverse women's rights and feminist organizations brought together by the urgent need f...

▶️ In the video above, we sit with Mela Chiponda, human rights defender & Director of the SHINE Collab, to confront the real costs of extractivist development.

🔗 Dive deeper with our full interview with Mela on #CriticalMinerals: wedo.org/critical-conversations (5/5)

A summit that claims to advance a #CleanEnergy future while sidestepping land dispossession, labor exploitation, environmental destruction, and neocolonial power dynamics is not charting a #JustTransition. It is rebranding #extractivism. (4/5)

UN Secretary-General’s report on #CriticalMinerals warns: “Without proper management, increasing demand risks perpetuating commodity dependence, exacerbating geopolitical tensions & environmental & social challenges, including impacts on livelihoods, environment, health & #HumanRights...” (3/5)

Framed as alignment for U.S., Europe & industry, the Summit emphasizes supply chain security, investment & geopolitical competitiveness.

But will talks focus on accountability for the social, environmental & human costs of extractive projects devastating communities across the Global South? (2/5)

Today, govts meet in D.C. for a “Critical Minerals Summit” focused on transatlantic cooperation to secure lithium, cobalt & other so-called “critical” minerals for the #EnergyTransition.

As priorities are set, we ask: Who benefits? Who bears the cost? Whose voices are deliberately excluded? (1/5)

From Belém to Baku and beyond, we return to these halls to fight for rights that must never be traded as bargaining chips. The power of our movements is the force carrying this process forward.

#FeministClimateJustice #GenderJustTransition

We celebrate what #FeministPower built in #Belém, and at the same time, we name the truth: the #UNFCCC architecture of justice is collapsing due to structural underfunding and political obstruction.

Belém: Feminist Power Delivered — But the Process Failed to Meet the Moment - WEDO “The power of our people is alive in this process.”  The new Belém Gender Action Plan (GAP) and the Belém Action Mechanism (i.e. a mandate to deliver a mechanism to support just transition) exist beca...

“The power of our people is alive in this process.”

The new #COP30 Belém #GenderActionPlan (GAP) & #BelémActionMechanism exist because feminists, trade unions, Indigenous Peoples, youth & environmental defenders refused to give up. These outcomes contain hard-won tools.

👉 Read our full statement:

🌿 WEDO's Alex Gordon gives a live update from #COP30 on where things stand with Adaptation and why this is such a critical topic for feminist climate justice!

#Adaptation #FeministClimateJustice #GlobalGoalOnAdaptation #AdaptationIndicators #BelemCOP

We need to "deliver a coherent & resourced Gender Action Plan. That's ... the only GAP we want in Belém." - Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland, Member of @theelders.bsky.social

From press conference: Delivering a Gender Action Plan at COP30 – Current State of Play ▶️ bit.ly/GAP-Press

As week 2 of #COP30 kicks off, feminists, Indigenous Peoples, youth, environmental movements, trade unions, & more are holding their breath to see if the climate negotiations can finally deliver something that makes a just transition.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3XAsinX

#JustTransition #BAM

💪 Feminists Demand #ClimateJustice!
WEDO and the WGC took to the streets of #Belém with Brazilian feminists, Indigenous Peoples, Quilombolas, campesinas & other regional voices to demand a #GenderJustTransition in first march outside the #COP30 venue since COP29.

#PeoplesMarchCOP30

Join us tomorrow at #COP30 to meet the women safeguarding the world's most vital biomes: the Guardiãs da Terra. 🌱

Hear their stories, their solutions, and their calls for the resources and political will needed to keep their territories alive.

📅 14 November
🕐 13:30 PM
📍 Press Conference Room 2

Side Event — co-conveners: Akina Mama wa Afrika, Christian Aid, MENAFem Feminist Analysis of Just Transition 13 November, 16:00-17:00 ILO Pavilion

Nov. 13 at #COP30, join us as we draw connections between #Patriarchy, #Militarism, #Colonialism, an ethic of #Care & a gender-just approach: Feminist Analysis of #JustTransition | 16:00–17:00 | ILO Pavilion

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#GenderJustTransition

"Our world today is built on systems that extract from both people and the planet … We understand that transformation requires both resistance and reconstruction: dismantling what perpetuates harm and reshaping what can still serve justice." Power in Practice at COP30: How the Gender Action Plan Can Shift the System

Negotiations for a renewed #GenderActionPlan kicked off yesterday at #COP30. Governments have the opportunity to make #GenderEquality central to climate action.

No GAP will be revolutionary on its own, but if done right, it can be a catalyst for change: https://bit.ly/49bz1vJ

What's At Stake At COP30 YouTube video by Women's Environment and Development Organization

The WEDO team is in #Belém for #COP30 to advocate for systemic, cohesive & gender-responsive climate policy decisions.

To prepare, members of the WEDO delegation share what they expect from the #GenderEquality, #JustTransition, #ClimateFinance, and #Adaptation negotiation items at COP30.

During this short session, WEDO experts will:
🌱 Provide background on the GAP & why its renewal matters
🌱 Outline current negotiations & political momentum following Bonn & Addis workshops
🌱 Share feminist COP30 priorities
🌱 Answer media questions ahead of #GenderJusticeDay and Week 1 of COP30

Media Briefing: What’s at Stake for Gender Equality at COP30 - WEDO Ahead of COP30 in Belém, the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) invites you to a 30-minute virtual media briefing on the upcoming renewal of the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan (GAP), a...

Join us Sun., Nov. 9 at 4 pm ET for a media briefing on What's At Stake for #GenderEquality at #COP30 — Renewing the #UNFCCC #GenderActionPlan:

(All registrants will receive the recording & materials.)

👉 Register & learn more: bit.ly/4ozg4rM

#Belem #GenderJustTransition #GenderJusticeDay

Endorse the Rabat Declaration for feminist Economic and Environmental Transformation: rabat.wedo.org

Rabat Declaration for Feminist Economic and Environmental Transformation — The peoples of the Global South, women and marginalized groups in particular, are facing profound crises rooted in the economic and political domination of patriarchal, imperialist, colonial capitalism. We, activists from the Middle East, North Africa, and the Global South, declare our commitment to a radical transformation of the global system grounded in economic, social, and environmental justice, and guided by a democratic feminist vision that centers women and gender-diverse people.

Our Demands: 1. Global South sovereignty and alternative economies rooted in gender justice and equality 2. Break the shackles of debt and financial imperialism 3. Redistribute wealth and finance social services through fair taxation 4. Climate justice through grants—No Green Colonialism! 5. Demilitarization and liberation, in Palestine, Sudan, Yemen and everywhere 6. Respect the rights of migrants, refugees, and displaced people

We urge all progressive, democratic forces and peoples to unite in this global struggle to shape a world rooted in justice and sustainability — liberated from all forms of domination, exploitation, and colonial control. Endorse the Declaration: rabat.wedo.org

The Global Feminist Convening in Rabat in May resulted in the Rabat Declaration and Roadmap: a feminist economic and climate justice advocacy agenda and a comprehensive vision for solidarity, liberation & sovereignty of the Global Majority.

Endorse it at: rabat.wedo.org

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