What Is Climate Feminism?

And the unequal impacts of climate change are making it harder to achieve a gender-equal world.”In the face of this reality, the world needs to embrace a feminist approach to tackling the climate crisis, she adds. A Multiplier of Injustice“The intersections of climate and justice and feminism include the disproportionate impact of climate change and the entire climate continuum on women,” says Jacqueline Patterson, director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program. On the international stage, Christiana Figueres, as the head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, was the architect of the historic 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, which in its preamble called out the need to empower women in climate decision making. New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, recently declared a climate change emergency and committed her country to going carbon-neutral by 2025. Their community-minded approach to solving the climate crisis prioritizes the collective lifting of one another’s spirits and helps build momentum—both of which serve as an antidote to the gloom that can sometimes consume the lone climate warrior.