Women declare emergency and raise climate ambition - summit
A round-the-world online event to raise up women's leadership for action on climate change
Friday, 4 November 2022
The planetary emergency is a triple crisis for climate, people, and nature. It is affecting all of humanity, not just half. Women from all sectors of society across the globe are being impacted and they need to be part of the solution. We can only solve this crisis by working together, men and women together.
SHE Changes Climate and partners held this online Summit on the eve of COP27 with a set of engaging and interactive discussions valuing diversity and raising climate ambition to address the planetary emergency. Women rise by lifting each other. We are also inviting men who are pioneering gender balance and raising climate ambition, to join the discussion and support our campaign.
The Summit was a unique opportunity to connect with political, business and civil society leaders from around the world and unite around our 50:50 vision for a sustainable future.
It was a free, inclusive event across identities and the gender spectrum. Over 1000 people across the 12 hours of the event.
WCC was very pleased to be a collaborating partner with SHE Changes Climate for this summit.
WCC Founder, Janet Salisbury, moderated the first main dialogue session of the event on Policy and Politics:
Policy Dialogue: Transforming political leadership to meet the climate challenge
Contributors:
Dr Virginia Marshall Wiradjuri Nyemba academic, practising lawyer, leading legal scholar on Indigenous water rights Australia, Board member of the Australian Government Climate Change Authority
Kylie Tink MP Member of Australian Parliament (Independent, North Sydney)
Delphine O Former member of the French National Assembly (2017-19), French Ambassador-at-large for Gender Equality, Secretary General of the Generation Equality Forum (Beijing +25), former member of the French National Assembly (parliament/house of reps)
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, Regional Representative, Shifting the Power Coalition & Pacific Island Feminist Alliance for Climate Justice
We explored women’s leadership in the Australian and Pacific region, including:
What lessons can we learn from the recent national election in Australia which led to a change of government, and the big increase in the number and diversity of women in the Parliament? What message does this send to COP?
The UN finding against the Australian Government in relation to the Torres Strait Islanders — what message does that send to governments everywhere?
How women spearheading climate change response in the Pacific Island nations. See more here.
And with Delphine we referred to the wider global picture for women’s leadership, including how to build capacity among women to fully participate in global negotiations.
See the SHE Changes Climate website for further details about the work of this group asking for equal representation and urgent action to solve the crisis.