Overview

The U.S. Advocacy program aims to strengthen and advocate for the implementation of a robust framework of feminist principles on climate and environmental policy in the United States.

As a global advocacy organization, we know that our organizational headquarters in New York are located in the country that is the largest historical emitter and a key driver of global inequalities and exploitation, inhibiting critical progress around global climate action and perpetuating injustice everywhere. Our U.S. advocacy program aims to make clear linkages between WEDO’s global justice focus and U.S. action and advocacy.

Like our work at the global level, WEDO moves in collectives, working to build greater power and influence of U.S. feminist and climate coalitions, toward U.S. policies that support gender-just climate solutions and investments that resource a more feminist, regenerative, care-centered economy. WEDO’s work in the U.S. and across our organization builds with the Feminist Green New Deal Coalition, Feminist Foreign Policy Coalition, the US Fair Share collaboration, US Climate Action Network (USCAN), and other progressive climate movement spaces. From advancing loss and damage and demanding the U.S. pays its fair share of climate finance to deepening feminist solidarity between U.S. and global feminist networks, our work aims to ensure global feminist analysis is heard loud and clear across the country.

U.S. Coalition Spotlights

Learn more about the Feminist Green New Deal.

Learn more about the US Climate Action Network.

Learn more about the US Climate Fair Share.

Learn more about the Coalition for Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States.

Impact

As a result of our advocacy work in the U.S., women’s rights and feminist organizations are in deeper relationship with the climate movement. We have seen that feminist and gender analysis is increasingly more present in U.S. climate justice movement resources and demands, and only growing with collective efforts.

Alongside U.S. and global movement partners, we have outlined key demands for the U.S. on climate action, climate finance, loss and damage, and gender and climate justice. We’ve co-created a framework for U.S. climate finance commitments based on the U.S.’ fair share that provides concrete demands and directly challenges the U.S. Nationally Determined Contribution. And through Congressional briefings and online webinars, research reports and supporting campaigns, we’re shifting the public narrative on climate justice and gender in the U.S., and what U.S. climate action must look like from a global justice perspective.

As a co-convener of the Feminist Green New Deal, we’ve launched landmark reports on the policy intersection between care infrastructure and climate action and produced first-of-its-kind public polling on care jobs as green jobs.

As we carry forward this work, we’re continuing to build across silos and with partners to push forward feminist climate analysis, perspectives and resources in the U.S.

Key Analyses

Landmark Report Highlights Critical Need For Gender-Based Climate Policies in U.S.

Monday, March 2, 2020 // Contact: Mara Dolan, WEDO, mara@wedo.org, Cindy Carr, Sierra Club, cindy.carr@sierraclub.org LINK TO REPORT WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) and the Sierra Club released a new report, Gender and Climate Change in the United

FemGND Releases Care & Climate Issue Brief

Feminist Green New Deal Coalition Releases Issue Brief Highlighting Intersection of Care Work and Climate Action Landmark brief makes the case for investment in high-quality jobs in the care sectors of our economy, including childcare, residential care, and home healthcare,

FemGND Polling and Report: Care Jobs are Green Jobs

New polling and report from the Feminist Green New Deal and Data for Progress shows national respondents believe care jobs are green jobs, and that care should be central to climate, jobs & infrastructure policies The Feminist Green New Deal

U.S. Fair Shares Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) Report

This April, WEDO is proud to join allied organizations in releasing the “Fair Shares Nationally Determined Contribution” (“Fair Shares NDC”) laying out the measures the United States should commit to carrying out to do its “fair share” of the global effort to

Toward a Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States

On May 21st, 2020, WEDO and over 50 leading humanitarian, foreign policy and women’s rights groups launched a broad vision laying out what feminist foreign policy would look like in the United States. Read more about WEDO’s reflections on the

Brief: Gender, Climate & Transport

WEDO is thrilled to launch a new resource for U.S. policymakers, advocates & activists on gender, climate and transport, and how to build a more just mobility system for all! We all have a right to move through the world safely and