FeCC

Our purpose is to:

• Advocate for transformative solutions
• Build and strengthen a movement

Some of us are…

• Advocating to government
• Building movements and working with grassroots communities
• Sovereign First Nations women
• Advocating in solidarity with feminist movements in the Pacific and beyond

We do this by coming together, in big and small collaborations, to:

• Advocate for solutions on feminist climate justice
• Amplify diverse women’s voice to power-holders
• Open doors for each other
• Learn from each other
• Be in solidarity with each other

Our work is guided by feminist principles for climate justice:

• We are committed to advancing human rights.
• We share a feminist analysis of the climate crisis and seek to transform its patriarchal, colonial, and extractive roots.
• We are committed to centering First Nations knowledges and leadership.
• Our feminism is intersectional, decolonial, intergenerational and queer inclusive.
• We recognise the power of collective action and connect to local, regional and global movements.
• We ground climate action in care for people, Country and future generations.
• We recognise Nature as a living system with inherent rights and uphold First Nations ecological law.
• We call for fair climate financing and reparations for loss and damage.

1. Australia must lead with gender transformative climate finance through dedicated funding centering Indigenous and diverse women’s climate leadership in Australia and internationally

Within Australia

Australia must establish dedicated, long-term funding streams for women and girl-led climate, biodiversity and community resilience initiatives, including restoration, adaptation, and cultural infrastructure. This funding should be designed and delivered specifically with women from diverse communities including First Nations and Torres Strait Islander women, girls, women with disabilities, refugee and migrant women and LGBTQIA+ people.

Internationally

Australia must deliver scaled-up, core, flexible and multi-year gender-transformative climate finance of AU$11bn over 2025-2030, with a focus on diverse women's and girls' rights organisations, LGBTQIA+ peoples, women and girls with disabilities and marginalised groups, embedding intersectional feminist principles across all foreign policy. 

2. Australia must deliver a [optional: ten year] National Gender and Climate Roadmap (or 2026–2036) that advances gender responsive climate action, centres First Nations women's sovereignty, and drives coordinated whole-of-government implementation.

Australia must establish dedicated, long-term funding streams for women and girl-led climate, biodiversity and community resilience initiatives, including restoration, adaptation, and cultural infrastructure. This funding should be designed and delivered specifically with women from diverse communities including First Nations and Torres Strait Islander women, girls, women with disabilities, refugee and migrant women and LGBTQIA+ people.

3. Australia must rapidly transition away from the licensing, production, subsidising and exporting of fossil fuels to comply with a genuine 1.5°C commitment that demands ambitious emissions reduction by 2035.

In making the transition, Australia must prioritise a rights-based, nature centred, and gender-just transition that ends extractivism, ecological destruction, and safeguards the rights and leadership of First Nations women and marginalised communities.