The The Women and Gender Constituency demands at COP25

At COP25, the WGC* demands Parties to:

 Deliver on a 5-year Lima Work Programme on Gender with a robust Gender Action Plan; 

 Deliver on ambition, including finance;

 Effectively address loss and damage and climate-induced migrations;

 Place communities over markets;

 Preserve the ocean;

 Ensure gender responsive action under the Koroniva Joint Work on Agriculture;

 Effectively launch implementation of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP);

  In the context of climate action overall, the WGC demands all actors to: 

 Ensure human rights-based and gender-just climate action;  
 Create a just and equitable transition for all;

 Ensure climate ‘solutions’ are gender-just; 
 Promote health, including sexual and reproductive health and rights;

 Break free from fossil fuels and unsafe energy systems;

 Move the money from war and dirty energy to social and environmental solutions;

 Listen to people, not profit;

 Promote energy democracy;

 Protect ecological food systems;

 Be led by ecosystem-based approaches;

 Declare Geo-engineering and BECCS as ‘No-Go’;

 Make fisheries and aquaculture sustainable;

 Know that water is life.

*The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) is one of the nine stakeholder groups of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Established in 2009, the WGC now consists of 29 women’s and environmental civil society organizations, who are working to ensure that women’s voices and their rights are embedded in all processes and results of the UNFCCC framework, for a sustainable and just future, so that gender equality and women’s human rights are central to the ongoing discussions. As the WGC represents the voices of hundreds and thousands of people across the globe, members of the Constituency are present at each UNFCCC meeting and intersessional to work alongside the UNFCCC Secretariat, governments, civil society observers and other stakeholders to ensure that women’s rights and gender justice are core elements of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.