As we review our progress during 2022 and continue to work toward Moving Power, Moving Money and Moving Minds, we celebrate International Women’s Day by highlighting just a few ways we’re working towards these goals.

The deep respect and recognition that feminist advocates have built within the climate and environmental justice spaces is positioning our movements to lead in greater and more intentional ways in the coming months and years.

WEDO kicked off this year by co-convening the first-ever in-person gathering of the Feminist Green New Deal (FemGND), deepening relationships and crafting a plan of action grounded in the FemGND’s core principles. As we work both to respond to increasing threats as well as to advance our own visions for holistic and intersectional climate justice, we look forward to wielding our collective power to demand a phase out of fossil fuels, challenge the corporate influence over multilateral spaces, lift up gender-just climate solutions, and more.

Although COP27 showcased the grave injustices being faced by environment and human rights defenders everywhere, it also demonstrated the power of collective movement building. Years of advocacy by developing countries and intentional cross-constituency collaboration among feminists, youth, Indigenous Peoples, trade unions and climate justice advocates resulted in once unthinkable wins around loss and damage. Now, our allied groups must ensure that the loss and damage finance facility becomes actualized, resourced, transparent, and accountable.

As we map our advocacy for 2023, we’re excited to share a feminist analysis of finance outcomes from COP27 co-produced by the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) and the Feminist Action Nexus for Economic and Climate Justice.

Since 2009, as a part of ongoing efforts to enhance women’s voice and leadership in climate change policy-making, WEDO has tracked the participation of women delegates on national delegations to the UNFCCC—across countries, regions and as Heads of Delegations. Our 2022 participation data, now available on WEDO’s Gender Climate Tracker (GCT) website and app, shows that while the percentage of Party delegates who were women was greater at COP27 (35.6%) than COP26 (34.8%), these proportions are lower than pre-pandemic COPs. In 2018 and 2019, participation topped 37%, and only 69.9% of delegations had more men than women in 2019.

 This data highlights the continued need to increase knowledge and data at the intersection of gender equality and environment. In January of this year, WEDO—alongside founding partners of the Gender and Environment Data Alliance—kicked off a GEDA Insights newsletter to do just this. Read the first edition on the GEDA website, and sign up for the newsletter here.

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