We promote the Red Latina Feminista por la Acción Climática
With the intention of thinking of a specific regional strategy that goes beyond the immediate context, we participated in COP 16 to think about COP30 towards the broader horizon of COP 31 and beyond.
In November 2021, we received the Gender-Just Climate Solutions Award from Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF), a high-level awards ceremony that has been held since 2015 during the annual global climate negotiations of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP).
In addition to the recognition, the organizations that receive the recognition are invited to participate in the Women and Gender Constituent Group (WGC). It is one of the nine stakeholder groups of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that was established in 2009 and is working to ensure that women’s voices and their rights are integrated into all processes and outcomes under the UNFCCC.
Latinas embodied
Within the WGC we promote the Latin Feminist Network for Climate Action to strengthen organizations in South America. In this framework, during the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (COP 16) we carried out the Juntanza Feminista WGC LAC, together with WGC and WEDO.
This moment was a valuable opportunity to “connect with feminists in the region, develop strategies and commit to shaping the debates and results of COP30 (United Nations Conference on Climate Change in 2025), while building long-term and high-impact collaborations within and outside feminist networks”.
We called on different organizations, not all of which were part of the WGC, but they do share its principles “to join the generation of a regionalization process that can take into account the particularities of each zone/region but above all unite the senses, common feelings”.
COP 29
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 29) will be held from Monday 11 to Friday 22, 2024, in the city of Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, and Plurales will be participating as part of the Women and Gender Constituent Group.
The main topics of this Conference will be the progress in the new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), planned for 2025 (at COP28 it was clear that the new national climate commitments must be aligned with the goal of keeping the average global temperature below 1.5 °C). Second, financing for countries to adopt strong climate commitments.
This COP will bring together leaders from governments, businesses and civil society to address the climate crisis. Plurales will bring together the experiences of scalable feminist climate initiatives for a sustainable and fair future, where women’s equality and human rights are fundamental to all ongoing debates.
*Photos courtesy of Kit Huayas.
