Worldwide, communities are rising to demand governments and financial institutions take bold and immediate climate action to protect our planet for current and future generations. In light of this, we are honored to organize and uplift several upcoming events that share strategies and solutions women and gender-diverse leaders are building globally. 

Global women are leading movements and projects to build a healthy and just world! During this event, grassroots women leaders and global advocates will discuss environmental degradation, the climate crisis, and present a diverse array of strategies and solutions to secure strong communities and a just planet for current and future generations including: Indigenous rights, Rights of Nature, Women’s Leadership, Forest Protection, Food Sovereignty, and much more.

Women are disproportionately impacted by environmental degradation, climate change, and social inequities, yet indispensable actors in promoting and building the solutions necessary for achieving a healthy planet and prosperity for all. This is a Stockholm+50 Associated Event, we hope you can join us for this important intervention during Stockholm+50 calling for women's climate solutions!

Stockholm+50 is an international meeting convened by the United Nations General Assembly, and one of the largest gatherings of global governments in 2022.

Since the 1972 Stockholm conference, civil society has played a vital role in pushing for the implementation of international policies and frameworks uplifting social justice and environmental projections. Right now, we need governments and businesses to listen to civil society and take urgent and bold action in alignment with the goals of climate justice frameworks and the Paris Climate Agreement. WECAN will be engaging with governments and financial institutions at Stockholmd+50, advocating for women's leadership, just climate action, and the end of fossil fuel production through the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. 

In the lead up to Stockholm+50, the Fossil Fuel Non-proliferation Treaty is holding a pre-summit in partnership with the Stanley Center for Peace and Security, and the Nordic Council. The pre-summit will be attended by Indigenous leaders, policy-makers, diplomats, the Stockholm+50 Youth Task Force and key civil society leaders from across the world in order to discuss how we can work together to manage a global just transition away from fossil fuels, including through supporting a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Learn more and register here: https://fossilfueltreaty.org/stockholm50-program

The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty is an initiative to phase-out fossil fuels and fast-track climate solutions inspired by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. We are honored that WECAN Executive Director Osprey Orielle Lake sits on the Steering Committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, and we look forward to participating and advocating for the treaty during Stockholm+50.

The Coastal Gaslink pipeline and associated LNG terminal is the largest private fracked gas investment in Canadian history. The Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs have been resisting the construction of the fracked gas pipeline on their territories for more than a decade, and the hereditary chiefs of all five Wet’suwet’en clans have refused to give their consent to the project.

After a decade of fierce resistance, Coastal GasLink is getting closer to drilling under the Wedzin Kwa, the sacred headwaters of the Wet'suwet'en since time immemorial. Now is the time to come together and demand drilling stop.

Join us for “Sound the Alarm for Wet’suwet’en” a live zoom event on Thursday, May 26, 4pm PT / 7pm ET. 

REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/3LnPld7

Led by Sleydo’ Molly Wickham of Gidimt’en Checkpoint, together we’ll take action!