As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, war and conflict, and widespread climate and environmental crises – all which have disproportionate impacts on women, girls, and gender-diverse people – a shift to a new paradigm is urgently required. 

The Feminist Action Nexus for Economic and Climate Justice (“Action Nexus”) was an initiative born out of the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) to promote the necessary transformation away from the fossil-fuel capitalism, neoliberalism, patriarchy and white supremacy that drive both the climate crisis and rampant inequality. Active from 2021 through 2023, the initiative outlined a comprehensive feminist agenda at the nexus of climate and economic justice, towards regenerative economies that center care for people and planet. This agenda seeks to urgently and radically transform our approach to economic growth, our systems of production and consumption, and the rules that govern our macroeconomic and multilateral systems.

This work is grounded in three key resources:

• A Blueprint for Feminist Economic Justice, authored by Diyana Yahaya [ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH, ARABIC]
• A Brief on a Feminist Decolonial Global Green New Deal, authored by Bhumika Muchhala [ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH, ARABIC]
• A Brief on Human Rights & the Private Sector, authored by Sanam Amin [ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH, ARABIC]

As of 2024, the work that originated within the Action Nexus continues as part of WEDO’s core programming, linked more directly to our work on climate and biodiversity finance and with an expanding network of allies and partners. 

Key Demands

1. Transform global and national economic systems to enable a just and equitable transition away from a fossil fuel economy and toward a feminist decolonial green new economy.
2. Restructure the global trade system to enable local and small producers to thrive. 
3. Redistribute wealth and resources through a progressive and equitable global tax system, to enable governments to mobilize domestic resources and invest in public service provision and climate action. 
4. End the sovereign debt crisis and promote debt justice. Redirect public resources from servicing predatory, illegitimate, and colonial loans towards climate action and gender-responsive public services to reduce and redistribute unpaid care work and survive the COVID-19 pandemic. 
5. Democratize the global economic and financial architecture to promote global solidarity and collective ambition to address global crises.
6. End corporate power and influence over global public goods and service provision.
7. Ensure all climate finance is gender-just, to implement feminist solutions to the climate crisis that prioritize immediate emissions cuts; a just and equitable transition and decent work for all; ecosystem-based approaches; and redressing loss and damage.
   

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