🌍 2026 is a triple COP year: land (UNCCD), biodiversity (CBD) & climate (UNFCCC). Together with our Ecofeminist Network Members, we will be pushing for ecofeminist solutions. 🌱✊ #TripleCOP #ClimateJustice
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🌎 #ecofeminist network working from local to global in +70 countries for a healthy and gender-just planet
Our Advocacy Team joined the SB64 in Bonn, where COP decisions get translated into actionable plans and the political direction for the next COP is shaped. Together with partner organisations, we pushed for feminist and just climate solutions. Read our reflections here: www.wecf.org/sb64-in-bonn...
Couldn’t make it to Feminist & Future-Proof, our creative visioning workshop on the side lines of hashtag#hlpf2026 ?🌎 We’ve got you covered! Read the full recap report and see how feminists from all over the world imagine a feminist future! 🔗 lnkd.in/ev3dqHuA
🇺🇳 This week WECF is at the High Level Political Forum, or HLPF for short! Swipe to learn more and follow to stay engaged throughout the week 🙌 #WomenPower2030 #HLPF #HLPF2026
At the AGM of ING Bank, we asked: how do you justify financing companies expanding virgin plastic production while acknowledging plastic pollution as a material risk? Their answer? Defer to the UN. ING, like many banks, has no policies on plastics. Helping business to continue as usual.
Does ING Bank Finance Plastic Pollution? We Posed the Question at Their Annual General Meeting | Break Free From Plastic
Plastic production relies on capital to fund its operations. And right now, major banks like ING are supplying it without limits.
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Just 1 more day until our Gender and Energy Poverty webinar! 🔌 This #advocacy #webinar will explore why gender matters in energy poverty and provide advocacy recommendations for CSOs and activists. 💡 🔗 Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Last night the #COP17 Armenian incoming presidency held an information session. They say they want to move from rhetoric to real action, and that they want to make it an inclusive Conference of Parties with full engagement of Indigenous People and Local Communities, women, youth and, civil society!🌳
Our focus on Item 5 on midterm review of the Gender Plan of Action: ☑️A stronger approach to women's leadership & access to land and resources ☑️Increased support (financial and technical) for gender and biodiversity ☑️An explicit reference to cooperation with the CBD Women's Caucus
During the #SBI-6 in Rome on Tuesday, we were supposed to continue our work on Item 5 of the Gender Plan of Action and aimed to solidify the discussion (see last update) in a conference room paper. 📝 However, we are stuck on a previous agenda item...
Yesterday and today we have been focussing on item 5 on the midterm review of the Gender Plan of Action (GPA). 🔥 Monday's overview: - More funds needed to fully implement the GPA - Concern for lack of gender-specific data - Most agree: move words into action! - GPA is a key instrument
Annabel at #SBI-6 : We'll be closely following discussions on the mid-term review of the Gender Plan of Action, alongside cooperation with other conventions. The latter is a key point to continue our advocacy at the climate COP for increased synergies between the Rio Conventions. 🤝
Upcoming Gender and Energy Poverty webinar! 🔌 🪫 Our advocacy webinar will explore why gender matters in energy poverty and provide advocacy recommendations for Civil Society Organizations and activists.🔋 🔗Link to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
"The report underscores how global warming disproportionately affects those who have fewer resources to prepare." Women in all their diversity are disproportionally hit by energy poverty. This is an issue both in winter and summer. Which is exactly why it is so important to push for energy justice.⚖️
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 7mo agoCash-strapped Europeans are struggling to keep their homes cool as the continent’s summers get hotter, a major new survey has found.
Curious about energy poverty & the EU Green Deal?❄️ Join our online lunch webinar tomorrow! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/j/85940903105
Is your group one of our new Seedlings? 🌱 Apply today! 🗓️ Apply by 26 January 2026 💡 You can find all information on our website 🔗 www.wecf.org/funding-fair...
Upcoming Gender and Energy Poverty webinars! Did you see our recent post about gender and energy poverty and got eager to learn more? Then sign up for these webinars! They will both discuss gender and energy poverty but from a different angle. Register now!
Energy poverty means the lack of access to essential energy services for households, where such services provide basic levels and decent standards of living and health. This closely links to gender since women are disproportionately affected by energy poverty. 🔌
Do you want to be part of an inclusive, just & healthy world? Have an idea & want to make impact? Apply for our €5,000 seedling fund. Organize a local festival, demo, community action, or something entirely your own: if it’s inclusive, feminist & climate justice–driven, we want to hear from you.
🌍Looking for inspiring and positive #climatejustice stories? We’re launching the #FundingFairerFutures repository — a new space showcasing stories, tools, and actions from communities driving just and inclusive climate solutions. 🔗 Explore now: fairerfutures.caneurope.org #eudearprogramme
Our #UNEA7 event Toxic #SkinBleaching creams #mercury showed our partners #WEP documentary film on the huge problem in #Nigeria and Bangladesh government, #EEB #IPEN who spoke on growing global illegal sales, agressive (often racist and sexist) marketing see www.zeromercury.org/mercury-adde...
A handful of corporations control what we eat - and profit from it 👨💼🤑 Seeds, pesticides, machinery, carbon credits, fertilisers, even poultry genetics. That’s not free choice - that’s corporate monopolies. #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
At #UNEA7 #Nairobi partner Semia Gharbi is sharing the lessons and results of our #Gender #Chemicals and #Waste project in #Tunisia (supported by BRS secretariat) where rural women transit away from pesticides and plastic usage instead moving to eco-tourism & agroecology! youtu.be/yBnUxJwZWtU?...
Teaser "What a Waste" Documentary - Tunisia
YouTube video by WECF International
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The #OrangetheWorld campaign comes to an end, but our work does not. Thank you for sharing your stories and for reaffirming that the cooperative movement is a powerful driver of equality and transformation. For more info, visit genderequality.coop #NoHayExcusa #NoExcuses
On international #HumanRights Day the Women’s Mayor Group #WMG called out some of the negotiators at #UNEA7 who are trying to move us all backwards 80 years or more by refusing to refer to #GenderEquality - while showing milesstones of the last decades including #CEDAW #SDGs #Beijing Platform Action
UN special rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights, Dr Marcos Orellana at #UNEA7 #GMGSF21 says non-toxic environment is a human rights & our responsibility to future generation. He announced his upcoming 2026 report on #foreverchemicals #PFAS where we can give input here: www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...
