Enabling women in all their diversity, to lead just climate action globally.
Increasing female representation at all levels of climate decision making by influencing key players, campaigning for public support, collaborating with like-minded individuals and organisations, and amplifying the voices of women from different socio-economic backgrounds.
Our Short Film
On 8 March 2022, Women’s Day, SHE Changes Climate released a short film. This film was created in partnership with Clim8, Earth Minutes and Visionary Pictures. The film captures seven powerful voices that address the importance of a gendered narrative in climate change, leadership, indigenous rights and scientific research. The SHE Changes Climate film has over 24K/24 000 views. It has been nominated for awards from The Earth Future Festivals and at the Lift-Off Global Network Session 2022.
COP26 Leadership Group Photo - Source: Alberto Pezzali/Getty Images
Why we need women in positions of leadership.
The climate crisis is on our doorstep and it’s affecting us all. But the perspectives on, and decisions about, how to tackle it have been made mainly by men, who spoke on behalf of only a fraction of the population.
Women continue to be marginalised from the political sphere because of gender stereotypes, lack of access and socio-economic-structural barriers. According to UN Women, more than 150 countries still have laws that discriminate against women.
Since the first COP in 1995, only five women have been appointed as COP Presidents. Evidently, there's a gender disparity in this crucial decision making position. More recently at COP27, women represented 37% of all delegation teams.
The highest number of female delegates at past COPs has been 38%. This contradicts the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan.
To resolve this gender gap, we are inviting delegation teams to make the pledge and commit to bringing at least 50% of women on their COP teams. We are also asking for all future COPs to adopt a co-presidency approach. We are stronger together!
We spearhead women, the largest excluded party from climate negotiations, with a view to opening the door for all marginalised people.
SHE Changes Climate is a global campaign, driving awareness of the crucial role of women in accelerating just climate action.
We are committed to ensuring women, in all their diversity, are able to make the critical decisions to save humanity. We do this by influencing governments, raising awareness of inequality and collaborating with other organisations looking for greater equality in climate negotiations.
We campaign for the equal inclusion of women at top levels of all climate negotiations, and for the implementation of the updated Gender Action Plan (GAP) from COP25 in 2019. Specifically, we call on officials to deliver on their commitment to promote gender equality in the UNFCCC process.
Credit: Photography taken by Minister of Environment and Climate Special Envoy Yasmine Fouad’s Advisor and shared with SHE Changes Climate for publication