Women Building a Resilient World: Implementing a Just Transition and Fossil Fuel Phaseout
Please join us this Climate Week in New York City for an inspiring and solutions-oriented WECAN event, "Women Building a Resilient World: Implementing a Just Transition and Fossil Fuel Phaseout." Amidst a growing polycrisis of geopolitical tensions and climate disasters, women leaders in all of their diversity are speaking out.
During this event, frontline women, Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and climate justice advocates will come together to explore the bold actions and solutions needed to accelerate a Just Transition and an equitable phaseout of fossil fuels. Through gender-responsive climate policy dialogue, frontline experiences, and community-led solutions, speakers will examine how to translate climate commitments into meaningful implementation while raising ambition to meet the urgency of the climate crisis.
Discussions will highlight women's leadership in advancing renewable energy, phasing out fossil fuels, protecting and regenerating ecosystems, advocating for Rights of Nature, resourcing Indigenous-led stewardship models, dismantling false solutions, strengthening care economies, and building equitable, regenerative solutions that leave no one behind.
Speakers to date include:
Ambassador Ilana Seid, Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), Permanent Representative of Palau to the United Nations, Republic of Palau
Bárbara Tupinikim, Bem Viver Coordinator, National Association of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA), Brazil
Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation), Ponca Nation Environmental Ambassador and WECAN Board Member and Project Coordinator, Turtle Island/United States
Eriel Tchekwie Deranger (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation), President of Indigenous Climate Action (ICA), Founder of The Woven Project, Turtle Island/Canada
Jacqueline Patterson, Founder and Executive Director, The Chisholm Legacy Project, Turtle Island/USA
Patricia Gualinga (Kichwa), Member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, WECAN Coordinator in Ecuador, Spokeswoman for Mujeres Amazonicas, Ecuador
Secretary Puyr Tembé (Tembé), First Secretary of State for Indigenous Peoples of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon, and Co-founder of National Association of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA), Brazil
Tzeporah Berman, Chair, Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative, Canada
With moderation and comments by Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Turtle Island/USA
More speakers to be announced!
This is an in-person event in New York City.
Registration is required, and seats are first come, first serve. Doors will open at 4:30 PM for early arrival.
Learn more about WECAN's advocacy at New York Climate Week.
The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International is a solutions-based, multi-faceted organization established to engage women worldwide in policy advocacy, on-the-ground projects, trainings, and movement building for global climate justice.
Learn more here: https://www.wecaninternational.org/