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 and gender justice 

• We share a feminist analysis of the climate crisis and commit to dismantling its patriarchal, colonial, neoliberal and extractive foundations. 

• We honour First Nations knowledges and leadership as sacred, sovereign and indispensable 

• Our feminism is intersectional, decolonial, intergenerational and queer inclusive because equity demands nothing less 

• We draw power from collective action in solidarity with local, regional and global movements for justice. 

• We ground climate action in care - for people, Country and future generations. 

• We recognise Nature as a living system with inherent rights  

• We uphold First Nations ecological law as a pillar of planetary justice 

• We call for accountability from the high-emitting countries and corporations responsible for increasing climate impacts, equitable climate financing, and reparations for loss and damage for frontline communities. 

We call on the Australian Government to: 

1. Lead with gender transformative climate finance through dedicated funding centering First Nations and diverse women’s climate leadership in Australia and internationally

Within Australia

Establish dedicated, long-term funding streams for women and girl-led climate, biodiversity and community resilience initiatives, including restoration, adaptation, cultural infrastructure, loss and damage, and just transitions. This funding should be designed and delivered specifically with women from diverse communities including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, girls, women with disabilities, refugee and migrant women and LGBTQIA+ people.

Internationally

Announce a AUD$11bn five-year international climate finance contribution and deliver AUD$300m over 4 years in core, flexible and multi-year gender-transformative climate adaptation, resilience, and loss and damage funding, with a focus on diverse women's and girls' rights organisations, LGBTQIA+ peoples, women and girls with disabilities and marginalised groups.

2. Develop a ten-year National Gender and Climate Roadmap that advances gender responsive climate action, centres First Nations women's sovereignty, and drives coordinated whole-of-government implementation.

This must be grounded in a genuine resourced community consultation process with the full and active participation of women in all their diversity in shaping climate policy, and mandatory annual reporting to parliament to hold the government publicly accountable for gender-just climate outcomes.

3.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.