2025 Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards

The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) is one of the nine stakeholder groups of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Established in 2009, the WGC now consists of 64 women’s and environmental civil society organizations, that are working to ensure that women’s voices and their rights are embedded in all processes and results of the UNFCCC framework, for a sustainable and just future, so that gender equality and women’s human rights are central to the ongoing discussions.

In 2015, the WGC launched its first Gender-Just Climate Solutions Awards. These awards aim to showcase concrete examples on how to center gender equality and women’s rights in climate action. We know the solutions to a more sustainable future already exist and it is time to upscale them far and wide, and demand change.  

Winning initiatives are showcased across three different project types, please review their previous award winners for examples:  

1. Technical climate solutions that are gender-responsive focusing on technologies, i.e. water, renewable energy, food production or transformation, digitalization, waste reduction, etc.  

2. Non-technical climate solutions that are gender-responsive focusing on behavioral change, mutual learning, skills sharing, capacity strengthening, etc. 

3. Transformational climate initiatives that are gender-responsive focus on governance, institutional or societal change, and challenging patriarchal norms.  

Application deadline: Sunday, 13 July 2025 (23:59 CEST)

Please note that only projects that have been ongoing for at least one year are eligible.