The 2024 Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP29) takes place in the Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11–22.

WEDO is sending a delegation to advocate for gender-just decisions and an overall vision of divesting from harm to invest in care; strengthen capacities and knowledge at the intersection of gender and climate; convene gender advocates and governments; and build truth when opportunities arise through direct action.

Throughout COP29 WEDO team will work closely with other members of the Women and Gender Constituency and other collectives as part of our commitment towards collective advocacy to advance critical advocacy areas of interest to the wider feminist community. As an organization WEDO’s COP29 overarching goal is to advance a gender-just transition as an important pathway towards system change and #FeministClimateJustice.

OUR FOUR PRIORITIES During COP29:

1. Gender just transition: Articulating the principles behind a gender-just transition away from fossil fuels and towards a world grounded in care, uplifting key examples of gender just climate solutions, and demilitarization;
2. Feminist climate finance: Expressing the demands around financing a gender-just transition—both what is needed at a macro-economic level and what feminist funding/alternative delivery mechanisms for finance could look like;
3. Data and outreach: Showcasing and advancing action on the collection and use of gender-disaggregated data at the intersection of gender and environment; and
4. Power and voice: Demonstrating how shifting power and representation in voice at decision-making spaces like COP is critical for climate justice.

For COP29, our policy demands include:

1. Securing a strong and progressive work programme on gender and a clear path towards an enhanced gender action plan (GAP);
2. An ambitious outcome on finance under the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG);
3. Raising ambition for the next set of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs); and
4. Centering human rights across all climate action, particularly as it relates to carbon markets (Article 6).

WEDO supports the work of the Women and Gender Constituency in delivering collective feminist advocacy at the COP!

WEDO’s broader delegation includes seven leading feminist climate justice advocates from across all regions, who are driving WGC advocacy through thematic working groups on all relevant topics in the negotiations. From mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage, to finance, just transition and peace and demilitarization.

The WGC’s key demands for COP29 can be found here.

Where WEDO is plugging in

November 12, 2024

• • Centering Care and Peace to Ensure a Gender Just Transition — 11:30–12:30, ILO Pavilion 

November 13, 2024

• • • A Fully Funded, Fair, Fast, and Feminist Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in the United States — 18:30–20:00

November 14, 2024

• • Promoting and Supporting Women’s Leadership for Effective Climate Action and an Inclusive Just Transition —
    UNDP Pavilion

November 15, 2024

• • Financing Women and the Future Generation as Catalysts for Climate Action: Addressing Climate Impacts and Fostering Climate Justice — 15:00–18:30, UNIDO Pavilion

November 17, 2024

• • Development & Climate Day: Intersectional approaches for just and effective adaptation

November 18, 2024

• • Towards a Gender-Just Energy Transition: Leveraging NDCs to Advance Gender Inclusion in the Energy Transition — 11:00–12:00, SE4All SDG7 Global South Pavilion

November 19, 2024

• • The power of gender data for prioritization and transparency: Workshop with a focus on NDCs and BTRs — 13:30–15:00, UNFCCC Capacity Hub

November 20, 2024

• • Enhancing Inclusive Climate Action: Alliance for Gender-Responsive Climate Finance — 10:00–11:00, UAE Pavilion

• • Global Goal on Adaptation: Necessary Data on Race, Gender, and Age — 11:30–13:00, SE Room 1

• • Climate, Care and Gender Justice — 11:30–13:00

• • Climate, Gender and Health: Essentials for Resilient Communities — 11:30–13:00

November 21, 2024

• • High-level Event on Gender: Good Practices in Leveraging Gender Data for Transparency — 10:00–11:30

• • Advancing Gender Equality and Empowering Women and the Future Generation for Climate Resilience in Least Developed Countries — 10:00–11:30, UNIDO Pavilion

• • Accelerating Feminist Solutions to the Climate Crisis — 14:30–15:00, PC2, Area C

• • Beyond the Enhanced Lima Work Programme and the Gender Action Plan: What does gender-transformative climate action truly look like? — 18:30–20:00