COP30 Overview

From Commitment to Implementation: Feminist Leadership at COP30

COP30 in Belém marks a pivotal moment for climate justice. Hosted in the heart of the Amazon, this COP takes place amid both unprecedented ecological urgency and mounting backlash against gender equality, human rights, and multilateralism itself. For feminist advocates, it is not just another negotiation; it is a test of whether governments will deliver on the commitments they have already made to create a just, inclusive, and sustainable future.

At COP30, governments are expected to adopt a renewed Gender Action Plan (GAP), a critical mechanism to ensure gender equality and women’s rights are embedded across all areas of climate action. But the GAP is just one part of a broader feminist agenda that WEDO and our partners are advancing. Together, these priorities chart a path from commitment to implementation, from policy to practice that improves people’s lives and strengthens planetary resilience.

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Feminists are driving implementation at COP30

Feminist leadership is shaping outcomes across the COP30 agenda: from the Gender Action Plan, to a gender-responsive Global Goal on Adaptation, to just transition frameworks that center care, rights, and equality, and to the urgent call for transforming climate finance through the Baku-to-Belém Roadmap. Across every negotiation stream, feminists are making implementation work for those most affected, and ensuring that climate action builds systems of care rather than extraction.

The work leading to Belém has already shown what’s possible. From the Bonn Climate Conference to the Addis Ababa workshop, Parties from all regions, alongside civil society and feminist movements, have demonstrated strong political will to align gender equality with the effectiveness of the UNFCCC system. Now, that political will must translate into outcomes: coherent, well-resourced mechanisms that move beyond commitments to measurable, rights-based action.

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WEDO’s COP30 Guide

This guide outlines WEDO’s key messages and negotiating priorities for COP30, highlights the delegation and partners we’re supporting on the ground, and shares where you can find us throughout the two weeks in Belém. It connects what’s being negotiated at COP30, from the Gender Action Plan to just transition, adaptation, finance, and data, with what feminist climate justice looks like in practice.

Use it to align strategies, amplify feminist leadership, and ensure that COP30 outcomes deliver coherence, accountability, and care for people and planet.

DOWNLOAD WEDO's Guide to COP30