Conference Agenda

This roundtable will address the interlinkages between the climate and care crisis, placing feminist analysis of the care economy at the heart of a just response in and for the global South.

Working at the intersection of gender, environmental, and economic justice, roundtable presenters will draw on their feminist research, activism, and policy advocacy in relation to three historic inter-governmental processes–the Inaugural Gender and Development Forum held at the 15th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD 15) in Barbados in October 2021; the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Egypt in November 2022; and the UN High Seas Treaty agreed upon in New York in March 2023.

Convened at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in February 2023 for an intergenerational and multi-regional residency on gender and climate justice, this cohort will present their critical assessment, emerging analysis, and collective research agenda by:

a. Providing a feminist reshaping of the dominant narratives of global trade and finance, which critiques these discourses entrenchment in neoliberalism, and their of privileging transnational corporations and high income countries.

b. Tracing and tracking climate financing from global promises to actualities, including mapping the flow of resources to projects led by women and girls in Latin America and the Caribbean.

c. Challenging the intensified geopolitical competition over access to and control of minerals–copper, magnesium, lithium–in the ocean floor that are critical to renewable energy.

d. Updating the state of play on how the climate crisis is impacting care and the links to just transitions in the global South.

e. Offering an alternate theoretical framework visibilizing and valuing the multiple and diverse forms of labor necessary for social and ecological reproduction and regeneration.

The objectives of the roundtable are to:

a. Share cutting edge feminist analysis challenging dominant climate change policy trends and solutions, including technological quick fixes and the ocean as capital’s new frontier.

b. Present an alternative vision on the issues of climate and care as part of a just transition in and for the global South.

c. Seek alliances with feminist economists for collective scholarship and action around these issues.