We are only a few days away from the Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Solutions from the Frontlines and the Protection and Defense of Human Rights and Nature, being held virtually from September 25-30!

Please see this newsletter for all you need to know to join us for this 6-day event featuring over 100 global climate leaders from 40 countries. We hope you can join us!

To kick-off the Assembly starting this weekend, we are delivering a Call to Action to world governments and financial institutions demanding urgent and immediate climate action while the UN General Assembly is in session. In addition, we also released a recommended list of frameworks and initiatives that demonstrate a climate justice path forward.

The ‘Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Solutions from the Frontlines and the Protection and Defense of Human Rights and Nature’, is a 6-day free, gender-diverse, public forum to take place virtually September 25-30, 2021, during the UN General Assembly. We are bringing together over 100 climate leaders from 40 countries for 20 panels to discuss struggles, solutions and visions for global climate justice, including feminist climate policies and frameworks; forest protection; Indigenous rights as a climate solution; fossil fuel resistance; and much more.

The climate crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, and socio-ecological injustices have emerged from interconnected systems of capitalism, racism, the commodification of nature, colonialism, imperialism, and patriarchy. To confront these deepening crises and accelerate a path forward, we need to have collective coherence to address the protection and defense of human rights and nature, and uphold community-led solutions.

Within this struggle, women and feminists must stand at the forefront of policy-making and action. Due to unequal gender norms globally, women are simultaneously the most adversely impacted by climate change and socio-ecological degradation, and yet are indispensable actors and leaders of just and effective solutions. Assembly topics will include the intersectionality of gender, racial and environmental justice; Indigenous rights and resistance efforts; the just transition to renewable, regenerative energy; feminist global policy; women and forest protection and regeneration; fossil fuel resistance campaigns; agro-ecology/farming/soils; environmental racism; feminist care economics and policy agendas; rights of nature; challenging corporate power; and women and feminist leadership across all sectors.

The Assembly will call for urgent action within a climate justice framework and produce an online collection of actions, policy frameworks, and solutions presented at the Assembly to be delivered to global governments, financial institutions and media outlets.

During the Assembly, grassroots, Indigenous, Black, Brown, and frontline women and gender-diverse leaders, global advocates, and policy-makers will join together in solidarity to speak out against environmental and social injustice, draw attention to root causes of multiple interlocking crises, and present the diverse array of visions, projects, policy frameworks and strategies with which they are working to shape a healthy and equitable world. The Assembly is an inclusive space across identities and the gender spectrum.

We are deeply honored to be joined by a group of amazing leaders including: Former Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine, Indigenous leaders Sonia Guajajara from the Brazilian Amazon and Casey Camp-Horinek of the Ponca Nation, Ruth Nyambura feminist leader from Kenya, Nobel Laureate Jody Williams, Youth Climate Activist Mitzi Jonelle Tan from the Philippines, Dr . Jane Goodall, Climate Leader Naomi Klein, and many other leaders. You can learn more about the amazing group of speakers here. 

We will hold 20 unique panel discussions during the 6-day Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice. Please see the full assembly schedule below. Please see the full Assembly schedule below. To view the schedule with all the presenters please view on our website.

All times listed below are in ET Eastern Time USA. Please use a time converter to check your own time zone.

Please stay tuned as we continue to uplift the leadership and solutions of women worldwide fighting for climate justice and the defense of the planet for current and future generations.