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WBG analysis and recommendations on the environment and climate change and gender equality
The climate and inequality crises have the same root: an economic system that carelessly exploits for profit the earth’s resources and its people, especially women and marginalised groups. The same logic that sees this work as inexhaustible and a ‘natural’ function of being a woman, sees the earth itself as an infinite source of material, energy, food and water for consumption and profit, rather than a delicately balanced system that sustains all life. So, rewiring our economic system to care for people and planet is crucial.
Throughout the world, women and girls are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, which amplify and interact with existing gender inequalities. In the UK, as elsewhere, women face greater barriers to financial security and to be heads of single-parent households than men, which makes them disproportionately vulnerable to the costs of climate change. And yet, policies to prevent and cope with the impacts of climate change rarely consider the gendered nature of these impacts.
Together with WEN, the Women’s Environmental Network, we undertook a two-year project developing a Feminist Green New Deal for the UK, publishing the final report in November 2022.
That report along with a video, seven policy papers, blogs and a key messages guide can all be found on the project page:
On this topic page, you will also find our more recent work related to the environment and climate change and gender equality, which draw on the Feminist Green Deal: A Green and Caring Economy.
This briefing sets out the disproportionate impact of the climate emergency on women and how we can move towards a green and caring economy.
This briefing provides recommendations for a future Government on how we can build a green and caring economy.
UK Feminist Green New Deal Final Report
Feminist Green New Deal Policy Paper
In this webinar, we set out our vision for a Green and Caring Economy, the culmination of a two-year project.
How can investment in care jobs & our social security system help to protect women’s incomes, & tackle climate change & gender inequality?
WBG & WEN Invite you to an evening exploring the importance of implementing an intersectional, feminist approach to tackling the climate crisis.
The proposed sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) revenue certainty mechanism should not be funded by the taxpayer.
The WBG have submitted a written response to the Net Zero review from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) (Oct 2022)
Economic policies need to move us towards a Green and Caring Economy.
The Women’s Budget Group are pleased to have submitted the following responses to the Labour Party’s National Policy Forum.
Today WBG and WEN published the UK's first feminist green new deal.
WBG’s response to the energy cost announcement on 8 September 2022.
Less work is good for equality as well as the environment, according to a new report by the Women’s Budget Group.
The UK Women’s Budget has responded to the Green Paper on Transforming Public Procurement, focusing on public procurement and tax transparency.
