Publications

Feminist Climate Justice Baseline Report, 2024
Authored by Dr Fiona Dukelow, Dr Catherine Forde and Edith Busteed

This report provides a baseline review of Irish environmental and climate policy for the Feminist Communities for Climate Justice project (FCCJ) from the perspective of intersectional feminist climate justice.

Webinars

From Challenge to Change: The Climate Crisis and Women’s Mental Health

We co-hosted an event with the Women’s Mental Health Network, where we presented the mental health findings of the Health chapter of our Feminist Climate Justice Report and had contributions from Louise O’Leary, Advocacy Manager at St Patrick’s Mental Health Services; Dr Marica Cassarino, Environmental Psychologist, University College Cork, and Secretary of Psychological Society of Ireland Special Interest Group (PSI SIG) Climate; Dr Amy Brogan, Senior Clinical Psychologist and member of PSI SIG Climate; Dr. Liam MacGabhann, Chairperson, Dublin North, North East Recovery College; and Elena Manciu, Roma Climate Justice Peer Education worker, Cairde.

Exploring Contemporary Crises and Issues through Global Citizenship Education: Climate Justice, The Missing Voices

The Irish Development Education Association’s ‘Climate Justice, the Missing Voices’ webinar gave invaluable insights about how women, marginalised communities, people with disabilities and young people are working for climate justice. FCCJ were invited to contribute to this webinar, discussing our work on intersectional feminist approaches in our work and the impacts of climate change on women and girls at a local and global level.

All Aboard! Public & Active Transport for All

We presented the findings in the Transport chapter of our Feminist Climate Justice Report and had contributions from Chloe Ní Mháille of Community Work Ireland (formerly manager of Comhar Caomhán Teo [Inis Oírr Community Development Cooperative]), Dr. Caoimhe Clarke of the Irish Cycling Campaign and Irish Doctors for the Environment; and Dr. James Casey of CBM Ireland.

Questions, with answers, that we did not have time to address live during the webinar

What we can do: Feminist Climate Justice

We hosted an online panel discussion with the National Women’s Council Youth Advisory Panel on 10th December 24 as part of the European Institute for Gender Equality Forum 2024. Chaired by Siobhán Doyle of the NWC YAP, there was great discussion among the panellists Bel Nabuele of Irish Second-Level Students’ Union, Claire Kenny of Independent Living Movement Ireland and Kelsey Doyle of Belong To on feminist climate justice, what they have done and what we can do to achieve it.

Safe, Green, Warm: Towards Energy Justice webinar

We presented the findings in the Energy & Housing chapter of our Feminist Climate Justice report and had contributions from Theresa O Donohoe, Elena and Sara of Cairde and Friends of the Earth, and Avril of Comharchumann Fuinnimh Oileáin Árann Teoranta (Aran Islands Energy Co-operative).

Feminist Communities for Local Food webinar

Our webinar in collaboration with Talamh Beo Women explored the need for a new approach to food production in Ireland, described Talamh Beo’s proposed local food policy and the importance of local food in terms of health, environment and climate.

Questions, with answers, that we did not get to during the webinar

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Care and Climate

The Feminist Communities for Climate Justice project’s launch of groundbreaking research highlighting the connections between care work & climate change by Dr Catherine Forde, Dr Fiona Dukelow and Edith Busteed of the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork. This webinar coincided with the run-up to the referenda on family and care in March 2024, and featured contributions from Fiona Weldon of Independent Living Movement Ireland and Rachel Coyle, former Head of Campaigns and Mobilisation at the National Women’s Council.

Project Launch Webinar

The introductory webinar of the ‘Feminist Communities for Climate Justice’ project, discussing its goals and how to get involved in the project’s work. The webinar also featured contributions from Claire Kenny, Policy Assistant at Independent Living Movement Ireland; and Mary Brigid Collins, Coordinator of Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre’s Primary Health Care Project. Both speakers discussed climate justice, injustice and how it impacts them and their communities.

Feeding Change: Healthy, Affordable and Sustainable Food for All

This webinar discussed the different ways that food poverty manifests in Ireland, alongside community initiatives and research tackling this issue. This webinar featured contributions from Lauren Corbet of the Liffey Partnership; Mavis Ramazani for Cooking for Freedom; Jennifer Lyons of the CULTIVATE-EU project; and John McFadden of Empower CLG.

Building Climate Justice Communities

The project’s final webinar focused on empowering communities to take climate justice action to create their own climate justice communities. This webinar discussed the project’s two toolkits, designed to equip all kinds of facilitators and conversation starters to change the way climate change is talked about in our communities and help them respond to the impacts of the climate crisis in their communities.

Toolkits

Feminist Communities for Climate Justice has produced two toolkits;

Creating Climate Justice Communities and Community Action for Feminist Climate Justice.

The two toolkits, created around the themes of ‘educate/agitate’ and ‘organise’ can be used on their own or in tandem with each other. Whilst designed with community workers in mind, the toolkits can be used by any kind of facilitators, including climate coaches; conversational hosts; community and adult educators; and anyone who facilitates a group who are interested in creating a better world for all.

Creating Climate Justice Communities

The ‘educate/agitate’ themed toolkit of the set, will help introduce readers to the impacts of the climate crisis on the day-to-day lives of communities, making climate change a more real and immediate issue, along with the solutions to recognise and respond to these impacts. It aims to inform community workers and facilitators and highlight existing and future injustices related to climate change which will impact those already marginalised in Irish society. The toolkit also covers climate impacts in Ireland on key areas of day-to-day life – energy & housing; transport; food; health; and care – to aid in showing climate change having an immediate impact in our lives now, not just in the future.

Community Action for Feminist Climate Justice

The ‘organise’ themed toolkit of the set, offers practical activities and exercises for communities to begin to unpack the climate crisis as a feminist issue and apply a feminist approach to their organising. The area of feminist climate justice and the work of transforming systems is long and slow because it’s about building relationships and challenging power. This toolkit offers a way into this topic and some activities to start building connections for this long-term and deep work. This toolkit is inspired by feminist popular education, and aims to allow complex issues around the climate crisis to be connected to everyday lives and experiences.

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The Feminist Communities for Climate Justice National Network (FCCJNN) is part of the Feminist Communities for Climate Justice project between Community Work Ireland and National Women’s Council.