Activism

The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International is a solutions-based organization established to engage women worldwide in policy advocacy, on-the-ground projects, trainings, and movement building for global climate justice. It is internationally recognized that women are critical to implementing just and community-based climate change and sustainability solutions. Join the WECAN Network and receive our newsletter.

Due to unequal gender norms women in all of their diversity are disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis, yet are simultaneously vital leaders in local and global solutions. The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International engages women and feminists across the gender spectrum worldwide for global climate justice.

We focus on short-term and long-term systemic change and solutions to address the climate crisis and the root causes of environmental degradation and socio-economic inequalities. We know that we are in dire need of a paradigm shift and an upwelling of global action, and that the window for meaningful action on climate change will not be open for long.

Given the lack of urgency and insufficient ambition of international climate agreements and national climate policies, and the calculations which prove that existing agreements and trajectories allow for inexcusable levels of continued harms – WECAN International is putting forth a fierce call to action and a feminist response, by and for women leaders and their networks.