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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 12d

🔸 Collectively reject neoliberalism
🔸 Reflect on advancing feminist economic alternatives as an alternative to the current economic frameworks
🔸 Exchange perspectives on how these alternatives are being imagined, resisted & practiced
🔸 Strengthen connections across feminist networks

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 12d

Join us on October 2 for a dialogue & call to action for feminist economic alternatives that prioritize wellbeing and the planet.

Register: forms.office.com/e/sHJJrahKgg

Flipping the script — Feminst Alternatives to Broken Economies

Octover 2, 12-13:30 UTC+1

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 19d

*NEW* research finds the U.S. federal government hands fossil fuel billionaires $35B in annual tax breaks + giveaways.

Instead of ensuring affordable renewable energy for all, the U.S. is paying Big Oil to torch our climate + poison communities.

https://oilchange.org/paying-for-climate-chaos

Paying for Climate Chaos: U.S. Federal Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Production - Oil Change International

“Paying for Climate Chaos” reveals the staggering scope of federal government subsidies for fossil fuel production, est. at a whopping $34.8 billion per year.

oilchange.org

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 23d

💪 Sept 18, 8:30-10 ET — Launch of the Rabat Roadmap for Feminist Economic & Environmental Transformation with @menafem.bsky.social // Register: bit.ly/RabatLaunch

💪 Sept 18–21, Sinal do Vale, Brazil — Guardianas de la Tierra Strategy Gathering

Launch of the Rabat Roadmap for Feminist Economic and Environmental Transformation on 18 September 2025. Register: bit.ly/RabatLaunch

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 23d

We're co-convening spaces that bridge generations, regions & strategies for feminist climate & environmental leadership:

💪 Sept 15 — Seeds of Resistance: Intergenerational Dialogue with the Nobel Women's Initiative

💪 Sept 17 — Global Feminist Resistance Webinar // Register: bit.ly/Sept17WGC

Seeds of Resistance — Intergenerational Dialogue with The Nobel Women's Initiative

Global Virtual Gathering — Stand with us in collective Rage on 17 September 2025. Register: bit.ly/Sept17WGC

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 23d

Join us for #GlobalWeekofAction (Sept 15–21) under the #DrawTheLine banner, when people rise up to demand system change: for #GenderJustice, #CleanEnergy, #HumanRights, and #ClimateFutures that work for communities.

#FeministFuturesNow #FeministClimateJustice

Draw the Line — Join Us During the Global Week of Action (September 15-21)

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 23d

This September 17, we rise to resist, reclaim & reimagine our futures together with the Women & Gender Constituency. 💪 Our power lies in collective feminist action that creates change. We resist rollbacks through solidarity, community, and collective feminist power.

#DrawTheLine #FeministFuturesNow

“As rights are rolled back and climate disasters intensify, feminists refuse to surrender to militarization, extractivism, and corporate capture. On September 17, we draw the line for bodily autonomy, racial justice, gender equality, and intersectionality. We fight for gender-just transition and regenerative economies.”

Mwanahamisi Singano

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ClimateActionNetwork @canclimateaction.bsky.social · 23d

@mishysingano.bsky.social @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social:

"Feminists are not only here to #DrawTheLine, but also to give ourselves permission to reimagine. As feminists, we know another world is possible. Feminist movements have always transformed despair into power, and resistance into renewal.

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 26d

50 participants (2/3 of whom were from Southwest Asia & the African continent) contributed to the Rabat Declaration and the Rabat Roadmap, created to guide collective advocacy through major policy spaces in 2025 & beyond.

rabat.wedo.org

Feminist Economic Justice Convening

rabat.wedo.org

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 26d

In May, a group of feminist & allied orgs convened in Rabat to strategize & set a foundation for advocacy infused by global South feminist analysis.

The convening was grounded in community & building collective power to counter neoliberal, extractivist, white supremacist, and patriarchal hegemony.

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · 26d

Join us on Tuesday as we, in partnership with @menafem.bsky.social, officially launch the Rabat Roadmap and hear from a powerful lineup of speakers, as part of the #GlobalWeekOfAction and #DrawTheLine campaign.

📅 Tuesday, 18 September
🕐 13:30-15:00 UTC+1

🔗 Register: bit.ly/RabatLaunch

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · Sep 5

🌍 Join the Women & Gender Constituency in Addis Ababa on September 7! African women leaders, innovators & changemakers will gather on a special Gender Day to spotlight women’s leadership, solutions & demands for a gender-just climate future.

Register: forms.gle/aJyVfNzsG8oUD4yz9

Women and Gender Constituency — From Ground to Global: African Women's Power in Climate Action

Date: 7 September 2025
Venue: Best Western Pearl, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Women and Gender Constituency — Du Local au Global: Le Pouvoir des Femmes Africaines dans l'Action Climatique

7 Septembre 2025
Lieu: Best Western Pearl, Addis-Ababa, Éthiopie

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · Sep 2

Without deliberate efforts to embed #HumanRights + #GenderEquality, the #EnergyTransition risks replicating the same patterns of harm seen under the #FossilFuel paradigm. Register for the virtual discussion on Sept. 4: https://bit.ly/3JCPNsX

Virtual Event — 4 September 14:00 (UTC)

Sparking Debate: Feminist Visions for a Just Energy Future

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · Aug 29

📊 Join the Gender and Environment Data Alliance (GEDA) this Friday, Sept. 5, on the sidelines of Africa Climate Week in Addis Ababa, for an exploration of how gender and environment data are crucial to effective and inclusive climate action.

RSVP by Sept. 4, at: bit.ly/GEDA-ACW

Africa Climate Week 2025 | Imagining Resilient & Inclusive Futures: An Exploration of Gender Data for Climate Action

Friday, September 5 | 4-7:30 pm EAT
Best Western Plus Pearl, Addis Ababa

RSVP required by September 4: bit.ly/GEDA-ACW

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · Aug 28

"There should be a mechanism to ensure that justice starts from the extraction point." – Mela Chiponda, in our latest Critical Conversation » Critical Minerals: Extracting Injustice from "Clean" Energy

▶️ Watch: wedo.org/conversations

#GreenEnergy #JustEnergy #EnergyJustice #CriticalMinerals

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · Aug 25

The global energy system has long failed people and the planet. 🌍 Reliant on fossil fuels, it has driven the climate emergency, human rights violations and entrenched inequalities.

⚡ It's time to spark debate on a different future. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · Aug 25

📊 At #HLPF side-event in July, GEDA brought together a diverse group to discuss #GenderEnvironmentData for inclusive & #SustainableDevelopment. Participants stressed the importance of evidence in making a case for reform & affirmed that communities impacted by climate crises are agents of change.

Panelists at Better Data for Better Lives event

Participants in discussion at the Better Data for Better Lives event

Participants listening to panelists at the Better Data for Better Lives event

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · Aug 21

💬 New Critical Conversations — We spoke with Mela Chiponda, human rights defender and #EnergyJustice advocate based Zimbabwe, who has worked for decades challenging exploitative mining projects and their impacts on communities.

▶️ Watch the full interview: wedo.org/conversations

#CriticalMinerals

Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · Jul 17

Tax the super-rich. Cancel the debt. Rewrite the global rules for people and the planet — not profit. The time for change is NOW.

#TaxTheRich #CancelTheDebt #RedLineToBillionaires #FightInequality #G20

Draw a red line to the era of billionaires

Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · Jul 17

Dear @cyrilramaphosabsky.bsky.social,
With the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in Durban, this is the moment for decisive action that history will remember. You have the power to lead a bold response. #G20SouthAfrica must lead the way in creating an economy for the many, not the few.

Dear President Ramaphosa,

As you hold the Presidency of the G20, the group of the world’s richest nations, the inequality crisis is quickly deepening. This crisis is not an accident, but the outcome of a system built to favour the very few at the top at the expense of the rest. People across the world are speaking up and the pressure for change is growing. They are no longer waiting for world leaders to fix the inequality crisis. They are drawing a red line to the era of billionaires. It is high time that the G20 responds with decisive action.

We write as people on these frontlines of inequality and climate breakdown across the Global South. We draw the red line to this era of extreme wealth and rule by the rich and powerful. We draw the line because this is no longer a time for half measures and empty words.

Members of the G20 have the ability to drive real change. Yet G20 countries have continued to look away from the deep, structural transformations the world urgently needs.

This Presidency of the G20 held for the fourth year in a row in the Global South — and now for the first time on African soil — brings the neocolonial nature of the global finance architecture, and its huge impacts on global inequality into sharp view. In the current polycrisis, the global majority are bearing the brunt of this system that has neither been structurally nor economically decolonized.

The Presidency of the G20 provides you with an opportunity to take truly bold steps to make the richest pay their fair share in taxes and to cancel the debt.

There is an urgent need to transform the current regressive taxation system that has shifted the burden from the corporations and wealthy class to the poor class. The debt crisis is also placing crippling burdens on peoples in the Global South who are living at the sharp end of inequality and are facing the brunt of the climate crisis.

Predatory loan practices, which has financiers borrowing to already highly indebted Global South countries at higher interest, is deepening this global divide. Over 3.4 billion people now live in a country
where their governments are caught between meeting rising interest payments or staffing hospitals, building schools and investing in climate-resilient infrastructure.

We urge you to guide the G20 in agreeing on:
1. Taxing the super-rich to redistribute extreme wealth and fund essential services.

2. Cancelling debts that are crippling countries’ ability to invest in people and the planet.

3. Establishing new global financial rules — reflecting the aspirations of people everywhere — that put people and the planet, not profit, at the centre.

As G20 Finance Ministers meet between July 17-18 for the last time ahead of November’s leaders summit, now is the time for bold action that history will judge as a legacy worth leaving.

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · Jul 15

"We don’t need 1 mythic number to make the case for gender-responsive #ClimateAction. The truth is compelling enough. #Disasters – like #ClimateChange itself – are not gender-neutral ... When we understand this, we can build better policies to respond."

Read more: bit.ly/Myth14x

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · Jul 11

Join the Gender and Environment Data Alliance's event at the High-Level Political Forum on July 18 to dig into gender-environment data within the context of the Agenda 2030! 📊

Register here: bit.ly/HLPF-GEDA (before July 15)

#SDGs #SustainableDevelopment #GenderEnvironmentData

2025 High-Level Political Forum Side Event — Better Data for Better Lives: An exploration of how gender-environment data are critical to achieving Agenda 2030

Friday, July 18 | 4-5:30 pm, followed by reception | 730 Third Ave

Our panel will highlight innovative, participatory, and intersectional data practices and explore how data are crucial to achieving gender equality, sustainable livelihoods, and healthy futures for all.

RSVP required by July 15: bit.ly/HLPF-GEDA

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · Jul 9

"What we call ‘natural disasters’ are not freak occurrences of nature, but the consequence of human-made vulnerabilities and decisions shaped by inequality, exploitation, and systemic injustice. Not everyone bears the brunt equally" – Mwanahamisi Singano, WEDO Policy Director

More: wedo.org/DRR2025

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · Jul 4

The #feminist vision of #ClimateJustice & #EconomicJustice seeks a transition from an economic system centered on extraction & unlimited growth to one that prioritizes care.
Read about connections between climate justice, feminist economics, resource justice & degrowth:
bit.ly/ClimateFinanceAnalysis

New Article — Fair funding to protect the planet and life — bit.ly/ClimateFinanceAnalysis

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Women’s Environment & Development Organization @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social · Jul 3

As we collectively prepare for #COP30, it's crucial that women in all their diversities not only have a voice but also shape outcomes in international policymaking.

We proudly supported 4 advocates from Latin America & the Caribbean to attend #SB62 & advance #FeministClimateJustice.

Amplifying Feminist Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean at SB62

As we collectively prepare for COP30 in Belém, Brazil, this November, it is crucial that women in all their diversities not only have a voice but also shape outcomes in international policymaking spac...

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