Amplifying women’s leadership in the climate crisis

Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia is a fast-growing community of women and gender-diverse changemakers transforming Australia’s response to our environmental and climate crises. Through leadership programs, WELA helps participants find their voice, build confidence and step into impactful roles. It also funds women- and gender-diverse-led projects and champions gender-aware approaches to ensure that diverse voices are amplified where they’re needed most. Renew: How does gender intersect with the climate movement, and why is it important to train women and gender-diverse people in environmental leadership? Victoria McKenzie-McHarg: Gender intersects deeply with the climate movement. Structural inequalities like patriarchy, colonialism and capitalism mean that women and gender-diverse people often feel the impacts of climate change the hardest. For example, 80% of people displaced by extreme weather globally are women. At the same time, these…