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📌The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels opens tomorrow. GAGGA’s and WoMin African Alliance’s policy brief, ‘From Fossil Fuels to Gender-Just Futures: Land, Care and Livelihoods as Foundations of a Just Transition,’ lays out what a feminist, locally-led and commons-based just transition looks like in practice.
It is grounded in a decade of frontline climate work experience, with 2,590+ women-led organisations across 60+ countries. It is written by and with the communities bearing the costs of extraction — and leading the alternatives.
The brief makes five core demands of policy-makers, decision-makers and funding partners:
Scale and transform climate finance: reframe it as reparation, not charity.
Ensure direct access for women-led community-based organisations: grants, not loans; flexibility, not bureaucracy.
Ensure women's decision-making power: not participation, but leadership in governance structures.
Put feminist post-extractive pathways at the centre: commons governance, agroecology, community-owned energy.
End false solutions: no fossil gas, no offsetting that displaces communities, no green extractivism without safeguards.
Share it. Tag the funders, policymakers and allies in your network who need to read it. The window for a genuinely just transition is open, but not indefinitely. Let’s make the most of it.
Read GAGGA and WoMin African Alliance's full policy brief: https://gaggaalliance.org/resource/policy-brief-from-fossil-fuels-to-gender-just-futures-land-care-and-livelihoods-as-foundations-of-a-just-transition/

📌This week, governments, civil society and multilateral organisations converge in Santa Marta, Colombia for the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, focusing on moving beyond fossil fuels following COP30 momentum, including efforts to operationalise the Belém Action Mechanism, to coordinate and finance a just and equitable transition for workers and communities.
The global consensus is clear: fossil fuels must be phased out. Science demands it. Civil society — and in particular feminist civil society and grassroots women-led organisations — has been calling for it for years.
But agreements are not transformation. And the terms of this transition, who shapes it, who benefits, and who bears its costs, are still very much up for grabs.
GAGGA is heading into the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels with a clear message, drawn from over a decade of frontline climate work with 2,590+ women-led organisations across 60+ countries: a just transition must be feminist, locally-led and grounded in the commons. Anything less risks reproducing the same extractive dynamics that caused the crisis.
Watch this space all week. We'll be sharing what's at stake, and what needs to happen.
Read our full policy brief:https://gaggaalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RGB-Policy-Brief-From-Fossil-Fuels-to-Gender-Just-Futures-Land-Care-and-Livelihoods-as-Foundations-of-a-Just-Transition-RGB.pdf


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