Policy Brief: Centering Climate in All G7 Discussions — A Call for a Gender-Just Climate Agenda
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:
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.
Download the full key demands document:
Our 2024 Critical Trends report examines the progress and challenges in realizing the feminist vision for economic and climate justice put forward by the Feminist Action Nexus for Economic and Climate Justice and our allies.
We focus on four thematic areas: 1) debt, 2) the Bretton Woods Institutions (the World Bank and International Monetary Fund), 3) taxation, and 4) climate finance, highlighting key developments and releases of data between late 2023 and October 2024. Read the report here (available in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish).
READ THE 2023 FLAGSHIP CRITICAL TRENDS REPORT.
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:
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, published June 2023, brings together a systemic feminist analysis and critique of the Bridgetown Initiative.
This chapter, “Fair funding to protect the planet and life,“ of the 2025 Coherence Index report “Fair funding for a future of hope,” sets out an agenda for systemic transformation, encompassing fiscal justice, debt cancellation, historical reparations for colonialism and slavery, demilitarisation of economies, degrowth, and justice in the use of resources.
Watch the launch of the 2024 Critical Trends Report held in February 2025, which features lead report author Arimbi Wahono (Shared Planet) and three feminist respondents: Julia Gerlo of FARN; Naomi Nyamweya of the Malala Fund; and Shereen Talaat of MENAFem Movement for Economic Development and Ecological Justice.
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.
Watch this interactive teach-in organized for the July 2022 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development — reflecting on the challenges and urgency of advancing a systems change agenda.
Watch the recording of our April 2022 global kickoff event — in English with subtitles in Spanish and French.
Women and girls around the world are demanding and creating systemic change and a sustainable future for all. We need collective power to attain a just future – we need you.