Indigenous and feminist voices called for climate finance to be accessible, inclusive and gender just at GAGGA’s COP 27 side event. The event was co-organized by NTFP-EP and GAGGA.
The event “Local perspectives to make gender-just climate finance a reality” hosted key climate finance stakeholders who discussed the current state of affairs related to the lack of resources reaching gender-just climate solutions in place world-wide.
The session hosted by Femy Pinto (NTFP-EP) was initiated with an intervention by Dolfina Kuum, Indigenous woman, mother, and environmental defender who narrated the crude experience of women in Komunitas Peduli Lingkungan Timika, West Papua who risk their lives everyday in the defense of their land against the mining industry.
As the GAGGA report on the event argued “the narration set the tone for a discussion among speakers and panelists regarding how inadequate climate action policies and lack of proper implementation put local communities at risk, directly impacting their quality of lives and increasing their vulnerability to the climate crisis effects.”
They underlined the ineffectiveness of the current climate finance mechanisms as they were not able to reach the local level sufficiently. The event discussed the ways to achieve a feminist perspective and how it can be maintained by focusing on the “design, funding, implementation and grievance mechanisms of climate action projects.”
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