Women's Earth and Climate Action Network

WECAN engages women for climate justice, mobilizations, just solutions, and worldwide movement building.

WECAN engages women grassroots activists, Indigenous and business leaders, scientists, policy makers, farmers, academics and culture-shapers in collaboration. Their goal is to stop the escalation of climate change and environmental and community degradation, while accelerating the implementation of sustainability solutions through women’s empowerment, partnerships, hands-on trainings, advocacy campaigns, and political, economic, social and environmental action. WECAN is dedicated to climate justice and to protecting and defending the earth’s ecosystems and biodiversity and all future generations. Trainings and policy actions include reconnecting with the nature and understanding the vital importance of living within the earth’s carrying capacity. WECAN was created to accelerate a holistic Global Women’s Earth & Climate Action Movement. Their basic relationship with the natural world has been distorted. Humanity is systematically destroying their home and undermining the ecosystems of their Earth. They are in need of a paradigm shift. Global climate change is no longer a distant warning but is rapidly approaching a tipping point of no return. Scientists warn that the opportunity to prevent the worst impacts of climate change will be “lost forever” unless the global community changes course by 2017. It is internationally recognized that women are critical to implementing climate change and sustainability solutions, yet there is currently not enough prominent mechanisms or platforms to wield a united effort into a defined movement. WECAN is engaging women's organizations worldwide, inside and outside the environmental arena, to join together and take action.