climate finance reaching women in the Global South. At this year’s 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Azerbaijan, governments will negotiate a new goal on climate finance. G7 leaders could play a pivotal role in committing to ambitious targets for climate finance, including for the new Loss and Damage Fund, and to ensuring that finance goes to the countries and women on the frontline of the crisis. Feminist climate justice demands the representation of diverse women’s voices in environmental decision making,
occupy almost 75% of parliamentary seats, and only 15% of environment ministers are women. And women often face violent pushback as they defend human rights and ecosystems at the forefront of environmental activism. Next year, governments will be asked to submit their new nationally determined contributions, outlining the actions they will take to address climate change under the Paris Agreement. This provides a major opportunity to include women’s expertise, especially through the voices of rural, Indigenous and young women, so that the resulting climate action matches their demands and the urgency of the moment. The climate crisis requires all hands on deck. The G7 has a special responsibility to demonstrate leadership. I ask that it seize this opportunity to advance feminist climate justice, to put women and girls at the heart of climate action and to safeguard a sustainable and equal future for us all and for the next generations.
Feminist climate justice demands the representation of diverse women’s voices in environmental decision making, whether in social movements, environmental ministries or climate negotiations”
whether in social movements, environmental ministries or climate negotiations. Research shows that from the local level up, where women are represented in decision
making, policies on climate change and the environment are stronger. Yet men
SIMA BAHOUS Sima Bahous became UN
Women’s executive
director and UN under-secretary- general in 2021. She most recently served as Jordan’s permanent representative to the United Nations in New York. Previously, she served as assistant administrator and director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States at the United Nations Development Programme and assistant secretary-general and head of the Social Development Sector at the League of Arab States. She has also served in ministerial posts in Jordan and was director of communication for the Royal Hashemite Court.
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