Gender, Environment and Climate Justice: Women Leading Transformative Action for People and Planet

This side event will showcase the regional programme “Gender, Environment and Climate Change: Enhancing Effective, Just, and Efficient Actions”, implemented by UN Women and funded by the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Biodiversity of the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The programme supports transformative, gender-responsive climate action across Latin America and the Caribbean by generating sex-disaggregated data, strengthening institutional capacities, and empowering women leaders and organizations driving local environmental solutions.

The event aims to illustrate how gender equality and human rights are integral to achieving just transitions, biodiversity protection, and climate resilience. Through a dynamic high-level dialogue and storytelling format, the session will connect evidence, policy innovation, and lived experiences from women (particularly Indigenous, Rural, Afro-descendant and environmental defenders across LAC).

Expected outcomes include to share early results, partnerships, and lessons learned that embody human-centered, inclusive, and rights-based climate action, identification of scalable models for gender-responsive climate governance, and commitments to strengthen partnerships that bridge data, policy, and territorial action.

Innovatively, the event combines technical insights with human-centered narratives, demonstrating how inclusive, multilateral cooperation—anchored in Luxembourg’s vision—can accelerate gender-responsive approaches, just transitions and biodiversity protection, through data, policy innovation, and leadership from women.