Interview with Dipti Bhatnagar, Int Programme Coordinator on Climate Justice & Energy with Friends of the Earth Int based in Mozambique.
Category Archives: Women’s voices
Find out why care is at the centre of a Feminist Green New Deal & why investing in people, alongside green infrastructure is the way forward
Read our interview with Oladuso Adenike is a youth activist from Nigeria who goes by the name, The Ecofeminist. Named by the BBC as a key African activist and spoke at COP25. Oladosu talks about the severe impacts of climate injustice on women and girls and underscores that an ecofeminist understanding of the problem, and its solution, is essential.
Read our interview with Maeve Cohen who along with Professor Sherilyn MacGregor, is authoring a UK Feminist Green New Deal policy paper to integrate feminist perspectives with the green agenda.
Read about the Women’s Health Experience Project – gathering information about women’s health to better understand gender issues.
Creator, artist and public figure honored for her commitment and pioneering work in the environmental sector, we spoke to Judy Ling Wong, founder of the Black Environment Network (BEN). Judy is a major voice in policy towards social inclusion and has worked for over thirty years in environmental participation, increasing access to the environmental sector, and nature itself, within Black and ethnic minority communities. Her philosophy around engaging people in environmental action is based on giving people the opportunity to experience and enjoy nature firsthand, particularly wild nature.
Read this series of interviews with leading voices in climate activism discussing why climate justice is a feminist issue.
Hirra Khan Adeogun, Wen Trustee examines why Covid-19 has disproportionately impacted ethnic minority groups in the UK.
Emma Greenwood is Youth MP for Bury and a climate activist. She is part of Youth Strike Manchester and is 16 years old.
Find out what a Feminist Green New Deal would look like in the UK. Read the policy paper and find out why the care economy is key to a green economy.