Investing in Women, Investing in Climate Security – Local Women’s Climate Response on the Frontlines

Across countries, women and girls are increasingly compelled to respond to the interrelated impacts of climate change and violent conflict, creating further risks to their security and challenging recovery and peacebuilding efforts. This event seeks to highlight and promote the essential need for women’s meaningful participation and leadership in preventing and responding to climate-related conflicts and injustice. This panel will highlight the challenges, good practices, and opportunities to leverage and increase local women’s leadership in this space, emphasising existing policy gaps and efforts to promote women’s leadership through feminist foreign policies and showcasing the importance of providing flexible feminist funding to local women’s organisations. The panel will also showcase good practices from the frontlines and contribute to the discussion on how funding can reach fragile contexts in a meaningful way, also contributing to climate action.