The Women’s Earth and Climate Network (WECAN) hosted the Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond from June 23-28, 2025. This virtual forum united over 125 grassroots and frontline women leaders, advocates, and policymakers from 50 countries. Through 25 panels, participants shared diverse strategies for a healthy and just world.

A significant session, "Women for Forests: Protection & Reforestation: Part 2," took place on June 25. It featured prominent women leaders and experts from various global organizations, discussing critical forest protection and reforestation initiatives. The assembly offered interpretation in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.

The Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond, hosted by the Women's Earth and Climate Network (WECAN) from June 23-28, 2025, featured the panel "Rematriating the Land: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Land Back Movement" on June 24.

Prominent Indigenous leaders participated, including Bryanna R. Brown, Janene Yazzie, Taily Terena, and Pluma Bárbara Moreno Torres, with moderation by Dr. Lyla June Johnston. These leaders represented diverse nations from Canada, Diné Bikéyah, Brazil, and Puerto Rico.

The assembly convened over 125 grassroots women leaders, advocates, and policymakers from 50 countries. Across 25 panels, participants showcased varied visions and strategies to accelerate a transformative path toward a healthy and just world.

The Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond, hosted virtually by the Women’s Earth and Climate Network (WECAN) from June 23-28, 2025, convened over 125 grassroots and frontline women leaders, global advocates, and policymakers from 50 countries. This forum featured 25 unique panels showcasing diverse visions, projects, and strategies to accelerate a transformative path to a healthy and just world, with interpretation available in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.

Among the key sessions was the panel “Healing Justice in the Climate Crisis: Restoring Mind, Body, and Spirit,” held on June 25th. Panelists included Cara Page (Changing Frequencies, Healing Histories Project, Turtle Island/USA), Zainab Salbi (Daughters for Earth, Turtle Island/USA), Dr. Vivian Tatiana Camacho Hinojosa (Ancestral Traditional Medicine, Bolivia), Nina Simons (Bioneers, Turtle Island/USA), and Daiara Tukano (Indigenous activist and artist, Brazil). Resources shared during this panel and across the entire Assembly are available here.

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Kellie Berns, EG's International Programs Director, recently joined Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers for a discussion.

Their conversation explored the history of Earth Guardians and strategies for fostering a healthier, more sustainable planet for future generations.

During SF Climate Week, Climate One hosted 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize winners Laurene Allen and Carlos Mallo Molina. These inspiring leaders protect their communities from powerful interests, often at great personal risk. Join Co-Host Greg Dalton to explore their extraordinary actions.

Carlos Mallo Molina led a campaign to stop Fonsalía Port construction, canceled in October 2021. The terminal threatened a 170,000-acre marine protected area in Tenerife, home to sea turtles, whales, and sharks. He now envisions a marine conservation and education center.

Laurene Allen protected New England families from PFAS-contaminated drinking water. Her campaign pressured an industrial giant, responsible for toxic "forever chemicals," to close in May 2024, ending over 20 years of pollution.

On March 13, 2025, Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.org interviewed Kellie Berns of Earth Guardians. They discussed Earth Guardians' core focus on climate justice and its mission to increase global youth involvement in environmental protection.

Video footage is excerpted from "What If Indigenous Futures: Voices of Tomorrow's Leaders" (edited by SanTeena Pugliese) and "Youth Power: Rena's Journey with Earth Guardians Crews & Project Grants." Both full videos are available on the Earth Guardians Kids YouTube channel. Photographs are by Earth Guardians.

On September 11, 2019, Democracy Now! presented "We Are Striking to Disrupt the System," an hour-long interview with 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. In her first extended U.S. broadcast interview, the Swedish activist discussed her global school strike, which began in 2018 and has inspired millions. Having refused to fly due to emissions, Greta arrived in New York via a zero-emissions yacht to join a global climate strike and address the UN Climate Action Summit.

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The "Law & Nature" series, developed by the EarthxLaw Advisory Council, features environmental thought leaders discussing critical legal and policy issues. This includes talks on automotive and low-carbon fuel standards, and regulatory compliance. EarthX began during the pandemic by assembling top environmental lawyers to explore these challenges. As "The Official Network of Earth Day," EarthX continues to provide insightful programming, supporting its mission to "Love Our Planet."

Al Gore criticized leaders at the January 2023 Davos forum for climate inaction, emphasizing how fossil fuel-based economies are pushing us toward the IPCC's worst scenarios. Daily, 16 million tons of greenhouse gases enter the troposphere, a number that continues to climb.

While we appreciate Gore's vital passion, it's also crucial to address animal agriculture alongside fossil fuel reduction.

For further details, refer to the IPCC Report and the FacingFuture Library.

The ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast recently featured Osprey Orielle Lake. She discussed her extensive work with Indigenous leaders at WECAN International and her new book, The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis.

The conversation explored the significance of listening, the role of nature, and how worldviews serve as entry points for change. Lake emphasized the importance of Indigenous leadership and the "rights of nature" movement.

Topics also included personal resilience and strategies for shifting governmental worldviews.

Earth Guardians empowers youth to lead a climate revolution. We drive change through initiatives like the Juliana vs. The United States lawsuit, divestment campaigns, climate strikes, and tree planting, fostering sustainable solutions for a regenerative future.

The revolution is already here, celebrated through art, music, culture, and nature. We invite you to use your privilege and join us in protecting our future. Be an Earth Guardian.

Learn more at www.earthguardians.org. Follow us: Twitter: www.twitter.com/earthguardianz, Instagram: www.instagram.com/earthguardians, Facebook: www.facebook.com/earthguardianstribe. #earthguardians

Seeking an inspiring youth speaker? Earth Guardians' Speaker Bureau features diverse, trained youth activists from frontline communities. They share their experiences as change-makers and thought leaders, inspiring urgent climate action worldwide.

Our speakers offer keynotes, workshops, panel discussions, and school assemblies, bringing unique perspectives to motivate change. Book a speaker for your event to inspire action: Earth Guardians Speaker Bureau

On November 5, WECAN Executive Director Osprey Orielle Lake addressed the GLOBE COP26 Legislators Summit at the Scottish Parliament. She urged global leaders to reject false solutions, advocating for climate justice, Indigenous rights, keeping fossil fuels in the ground, and greater inclusion of women and frontline communities in decision-making.

Lake highlighted that current country commitments fall short of the Paris Agreement's 1.5-degree target. She presented a "Call to Action" from the Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice, outlining how existing frameworks can achieve this goal. This call represents millions of women and feminists worldwide.

Read the Call to Action Statement and Framework Recommendations.

During WECAN's Climate Week events, Thilmeeza Hussain, Permanent Representative to the UN and Ambassador from the Maldives, spoke with WECAN Executive Director Osprey Orielle Lake. Their discussion focused on climate justice policies, women's leadership, and accelerating just, resilient, community-led solutions.

This event was part of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) three-day Climate Justice Forum. Titled "Facing the Climate Emergency on the Road to COP27: Solutions and Perspectives from Global Women and Gender Diverse Leaders," the forum took place September 20-22.

Kahea Pacheco (Kanaka ʻŌiwi) is a passionate advocate for Indigenous rights AND climate justice. She champions the concept of aloha 'āina (love of the land), believing that effective solutions to the climate crisis are rooted in time-tested Indigenous knowledge.

As Co-Executive Director at Women's Earth Alliance—a 19-year-old global initiative that empowers women to protect the environment—Kahea works to ensure a just AND thriving world. She notes that in 'Ōlelo Hawai'i, the word <'āina (land) also means "that which feeds us" AND was used by her ancestors to mean "family," reinforcing the view that the natural world is a living, nurturing member of our community.

This talk was given at a TEDx event. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx.

The climate crisis affects us all, but not equally. This raises critical questions about climate change's connection to social injustice and how we can address it. This is climate justice explained.

Our new channel, Planet A, explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world. It challenges conventional thinking on climate change, examining both individual actions and systemic change. Every Friday, we offer a truly global perspective on solving this urgent crisis.

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Rising Nations Youth Delegate Grace Malie discussed the future of Tuvalu and other island nations.

She met with Valerie Hickey, Global Director of the Environment Department at the World Bank, to address the severe climate impacts facing these vulnerable regions.

Dianne Saxe is the Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Ontario and a candidate in Toronto Rosedale. An internationally recognized Canadian lawyer, she is rated among the world's top 25 environmental lawyers.

Saxe previously served as Ontario's Environmental Commissioner from 2015 to 2019.

On November 6, 2021, President Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure plan advanced following a House vote. Globally, protests demand climate action as communities explore ways to develop climate resilience.

This edition includes insights from Nick Offerman; Marshall Burke and Noah Diffenbaugh of Stanford University; behavioral scientist Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, a professor at Stanford's Earth System Science and Woods Institute; and Ortensia Lopez.