At COP28, WECF will organise a number of side events. If you are present at COP, you are invited to join. View our overview of the side events below. For a detailed description of each side event, scroll down further, or view our events page.
3 December: Gender Just Climate Policy & Finance: From Barriers to Actionable Solutions
Women-led community-based organisations (CBOs) find current financing and decision-making processes almost inaccessible. Yet, it’s these very organisations that are spearheading the most holistic and effective gender-just climate solutions.Join us for a crucial conversation that moves beyond identifying barriers and paves the way for actionable, concrete solutions. In this discussion you will:
- Hear from local CBO and NGO representatives how they implement gender just climate solutions.
- Learn more about the current obstacles they face to access finance and meaningfully engage in decision-making processes.
- Engage in an interactive dialogue between practitioners, governmental representatives and philanthropic donors to make gender-just climate policy and finance a reality.
Date: Sunday, 3 December 2023
Time (UAE time): 13:15 – 14:45
Venue: SE Room 7
Registration: For in-person participation, no registration is needed. For online participation: register here
Language(s): Event held in English. For in-person audiences: live interpretation in French, Portuguese and Spanish available.
4 December: Climate finance for forests, biodiversity & food security: what can we do better?
During the side event, a diverse panel including grassroots women, Indigenous and local community representatives will discuss how to ensure that climate finance is directed to the local level. Focusing on locally-led adaptation and mitigation principles, particularly the vital importance of being gender-responsive, we will address how financial mechanisms (including for example the Loss and Damage Fund) can better support communities at the frontline of tropical forest and biodiversity stewardship and conservation.
Date: Monday, 4 December
Time (UAE time): 16:00 – 17:15
Venue: IUCN Pavilion
Language(s): English
5 December: Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards
Date: Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Time (UAE time): 11:30 – 13:00
Venue: SE Room 1
Language(s): Event held in English, live French and Arabic interpretation available.
8 December: Forests, vital reserves for humanity: ensuring their protection and inclusive management, as well as access to innovative financing
Testimonies from actors in the field, presenting exemplary practices that integrate gender justice into the management of natural resources, the fight against the climate crisis and the conservation of biodiversity.
Date: Friday, 8 December 2023
Time (UAE time): 16:30 – 18:00
Venue: French Pavilion
Language(s): Event held in French, live English interpretation available.
9 December: Good practices of Gender-responsive Climate Action: Matching capacity-building needs and existing opportunities
This interactive session will enable participants to share good practices and opportunities to support Parties and other actors that are committed to implementing climate action in line with the Paris agreements’ key preambular principles of a.o. human rights, gender equality and just transition.
Participants of the worldcafe roundtables will build on short introductory good practices from feminist organisations and social enterprises, and co-create recommendations to identify needs and strengthen gender responsiveness of climate programmes.
Date: Saturday, 9 December 2023
Time (UAE time): 11:40 – 12:40
Venue: Capacity Building Hub
Language(s): Event held in English
9 December: Gender-just and community rights perspectives on forest & biodiversity conservation: pathways for climate justice
During this dialogue we will discuss and present examples of gender-just community conservation and restoration of forests and other ecosystem initiatives, including the strengthening of land tenure rights as one of the most effective ways to mitigate climate change. Representatives of feminist groups and other gender experts will contrast these approaches with some of the ‘false solutions’ being promoted through the increasing corporate capture of forest and climate policy-making, which can be deeply harmful to IP&LCs particularly women and girls in all their diversity.
Date: Saturday, 9 December 2023
Time (UAE time): 15:00 – 16:30
Venue: WGC Pavilion
Language(s): Event held in English
10 December: Bridging Gender Gaps in NDC implementation: lessons learned from community-led climate technology solutions
Date: Sunday, 10 December 2023
Time (UAE time): 11:00 – 12:00
Venue: NDC Partnership Pavilion
Language(s): Event held in English
11 December: Making BENELUX climate and energy policies feminist and decolonial
Date: Monday, 11 December 2023
Time (UAE time): 15:30 – 17:00
Venue: Benelux Pavilion
Language(s): Event held in English, live Dutch and French interpretation available.