Overview

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

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.
Restructure the global trade system to enable local and small producers to thrive.
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.
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.
Democratize the global economic and financial architecture to promote global solidarity and collective ambition to address global crises.
End corporate power and influence over global public goods and service provision.
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.

Download the full key demands document:

ENGLISH | FRENCH | SPANISH | ARABIC

Spotlight: Read our 2024 Trends Report!

Published in January 2024, our Critical Trends report illustrates the significant gap between the current global order and the feminist vision for economic and climate justice put forward by the Feminist Action Nexus and our allies. To begin to determine how far away we are from this vision—and therefore how to achieve it—this report examines recent developments, primarily since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Read the report here.

Advocacy & Analysis

This series of three advocacy briefs, written by Emilia Reyes and published in August 2024, offers an introduction to the concept of degrowth in relation to the struggle for global justice.

Read the primers:

What is Degrowth? English; Spanish; French
Directions of Degrowth English; Spanish; French
Degrowth for Multilateral Activism English; Spanish; French

Published in August 2024, this brief by Sanam Amin expands upon the Action Nexus Blueprint with specific policy proposals around care and the just energy transition, and the systems change required (through dismantling debt and militarism) to achieve this collective advocacy agenda. Read it in English, Spanish, or French.

This brief by feminist economist Diksha Arora explores a structural approach to women’s labor force participation in the Global South, published April 2024. Available in English, French and Spanish.

Authored by Mukupa Nsenduluka and Rachel Etter-Phoya, this brief on the principles of tax justice and the climate crisis in Africa’s resource-rich nations was published September 2023 in English, French, and Spanish.

This brief, published June 2023, brings together a systemic feminist analysis and critique of the Bridgetown Initiative.

This analysis on climate change, debt, and COVID-19 by Mela Chiponda and Anne Songole in Zimbabwe and Kenya was published February 2023 in English, Spanish, and French.

Key Events & Webinars

Held in August 2024, this teach-in on System Change for People and Planet: A Teach-in on Degrowth, Ending Militarism, and Feminist Alternatives featured Emilia Reyes, Sanam Amin, and Faith Lumonya. Watch the recording in English or Spanish.

Watch the teach-in and strategy session on the Bridgetown Initiative in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.

Watch the recording (in English) and view the slides from the March 2023 Feminist Climate Finance Strategy Session held by the Action Nexus and the Women and Gender Constituency.