Confronting Corporate Capture to Advance Climate Justice: A Feminist Perspective

14 September 2021 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm UTC+8

Organised by ESCR-Net

Moderator: Maha Abdallah, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Belgium/Tunisia

Speakers:
Alejandra Scampini, Proyecto sobre Organización, Desarrollo, Educación e Investigación (PODER), Uruguay
Subashini Deepa, National Fisheries Solidarity Organization (NAFSO), Sri Lanka
Patricia Wattimena, Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development (APWLD), Thailand
Martha Devia, Comité Ambiental en Defensa de la Vida, Colombia
Juana Toledo, Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj, Guatemala
Nathalie Rengifo, Corporate Accountability, USA

Description: This session was an invitation to learn and design possibilities together to overcome corporate capture towards making climate justice and a healthy environment a reality for women and girls already confronting the highest costs of the climate crisis. The discussion demonstrated and shared concrete lived experiences of corporate capture on women, especially in relation to the climate crisis. Women leaders also shared strategies they have developed to confront corporate powers, emphasising the importance of strengthening the leadership of women within their own movements to advancing resistance and articulating alternatives that promote climate justice and a healthy environment. The activity discussed how women leaders could be working together to build alternative feminist economies where corporate capture is no longer a threat to communities and an obstacle to climate justice and human rights. In a dynamic, accessible and interactive space, grassroots women leaders and feminist advocates across regions, struggles and generations, will lead us through a journey of collective knowledge-building to take the next steps in turning this vision into a feminist reality.  

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