Climate justice feminist

Graduate Women Caregivers for Life is a project of theoretical / practical training and intersectional that articulates the care and climate justice from the feminisms of Abya Yala and other southern areas. The graduate understands the care practices, policies, community, and territorial fundamental to sustain life in the context of climate crisis. The proposal combines popular education, participatory action-research and systematization of experiences, with the aim of strengthen the voices and strategies of women as care-givers and to build a political document of incidence that will be presented in the COP30 of the UNFCCC (Brazil, 2025), by contributing to a climate action feminist and transformational.

Juntanza Climate Feminist is a project that aims to strengthen the leadership of women of the south Pacific colombian in front of the crisis climate, the corresponding provision is recognized as actors and key in the defense of life and territory. As part of the project, we developed the Diploma in Juntanza Climate Feminist, with the goal of expanding access to training in climate justice, water, food sovereignty, climate change adaptation and peace territorial, integrating ancestral knowledge and technical tools to drive local solutions from the communities.

The II Summit of Women for Climate Justice took place on September 13, 2024 in The Guajira, bringing together 100 young women of Colombia and Latin America in a space of connection, learning, and collective action. It was a meeting to strengthen our networks, share experiences and continue positioning the gender perspective in climate policies at the global level through panels on climate justice feminist, TED Talks inspiring, and interactive workshops, the participants reaffirmed the role of women as leaders key in the construction of solutions to the climate crisis.

The Diploma Regional Climate Justice Feminist for Transitions Socioecológicas was a formative process driven by the Foundation Barranquilla,+20, Women for Climate Justice and the National Open University and Distance (AND), which brought together women of Latin America in a space of learning, reflection, and articulation. During the course addressed the intersection between climate change, gender and feminisms, strengthening analytical capacities, leadership and advocacy from the perspectives of the Global South and from the territories. It was a process that consolidated networks and strengthened collective action to transitions socioecológicas more fair and inclusive.

From Barranquilla,+20 to promote the campaign #AccionesFeministas for Climate, an initiative to highlight how women in the Latin american territory resist from their communities, and claim the struggles of gender and climate justice. We recognize that the collective action, leadership, territorial and community organization are keys to confront the climate crisis with a focus on feminist.

This space opened a necessary reflection on the impact of male violence towards women, girls, local communities and nature in the context of the climate crisis. The conversation questioned the historical role of the men in power structures —including the multinational extractive — and how certain models of masculinity have been detached from the environmental care. From the Global South, it was proposed to recognize harmful behaviors and assume the responsibility of changing behaviors in order to move towards a better relationship, empathetic and sustainable.