Advocacy Brief
Feb 25, 20262025 Critical Trends: Towards Economic and Climate Justice: A Feminist Analysis
WEDO’s annual Critical Trends Report examines the progress and challenges in realizing a comprehensive vision for feminist economic and climate justice. Covering developments over 2025 (and new data releases), this report spotlights both local sites of struggle against the consequences of neoliberalism and global advocacy proposals from civil society and Global South countries to transform our economic system.
2025 marks a year of many milestones. Anniversaries of some of the most formative multilateral commitments of our era include 30 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action for advancing women’s rights; ten years since both the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); and 80 years since the formation of the UN itself.
Rather than a cause for celebration, this year revealed the fragility of these commitments. We have now crossed seven of the nine planetary boundaries identified as necessary to sustain life on Earth. Accelerated by the electoral advance of ultra-right-wing and other fundamentalist forces, in 2025, governments and corporations initiated one of the most significant rollbacks of human rights, gender equality, and civic space in recent decades.
Published annually since 2023, this report provides a snapshot of progress and challenges in seven key areas: tax, trade, debt, corporate capture, global economic governance, feminist climate finance, and the systems change required to achieve care for people and planet. Emphasizing the agency of people and communities, this movement-facing report spotlights both local sites of struggle against the consequences of neoliberalism and global advocacy proposals from civil society and Global South countries to transform our economic system.
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