We are proud to announce that applications are now open for the 10th edition of the Gender Just Climate Solutions Award, an international recognition we offer through the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC). This award highlights innovative, inclusive, and gender-responsive approaches to addressing climate change. It’s our way of showcasing how climate action can and must centre gender equality and women’s rights. 

Applications are free of charge and will be accepted until 13 July 2025.

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Award Categories and Prizes 

We honour projects across three categories: 

• Technical Climate Solutions: These include gender-responsive innovations in areas such as water, renewable energy, food production, digitalisation, and waste reduction. 

• Non-Technical Climate Solutions: We recognise efforts that promote behavioural change, mutual learning, and capacity-building from a gender-responsive perspective. 

• Transformative Climate Initiatives: These projects focus on governance, institutional reform, or social change that challenges patriarchal structures and norms. 

Three winning projects—one from each category—will receive: 

• A €5,000 cash prize; 

• Fully funded travel for one representative per project to attend the award ceremony at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025; 

• One year of tailored mentorship provided by members of our Women and Gender Constituency. 

About the Women and Gender Constituency 

The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) is one of the nine stakeholder groups of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Established in 2009, the WGC now consists of 52 women’s and environmental civil society organisations working to ensure that women’s voices and their rights are embedded in all processes and outcomes of the UNFCCC framework. The goal is a sustainable and just future in which gender equality and women’s human rights are central to ongoing climate discussions.