Gender and Climate Justice: Knowledge for Empowerment (COPGendered)

COPGendered: Final Transnational Capacity Building Events on Gender and Climate Justice, 5-7 June 2025, Brussels and Gent, Belgium

COPGendered – Gender and Climate Justice: Knowledge for Empowerment – was a three-year transnational collaboration aimed at strengthening knowledge and capacities around the links between gender inequality and the climate crisis.

The project brought together WIDE+, LIFE e.V. (Germany), WIDE Austria, GADIP (Sweden), KULU – Women and Development (Denmark), Mundubat (Spain) and CSCD (Bulgaria), and concluded in November 2025.

The project developed educational tools, knowledge and resources for adult learners, educators and organisations to deepen the understanding of citizens around the interrelationships between gender inequality and climate vulnerabilities, as well as build their skills to promote gender and climate justice as citizens. 

The role of gender inequality is often forgotten in the problem definition of climate change. This project showed the deeply social and political nature of climate change in its impacts and also as possibilities for ways forward.

The project aimed to boost civic mobilization and democratic participation, particularly among women* in all their diversity. It directly linked demands for economic and social justice with environmental sustainability and climate justice. Ultimately, the initiative gave participants the confidence to address gender issues from a clear intersectional perspective – ensuring the inclusion of migrant women and LGBTQI+ communities – in the context of climate policies.

Concretely the project has:

• Built the capacity of providers of adult education in skills and knowledge on the relationships between gender and climate justice, and methods and pedagogical tools to carry adult education learning in groups and online.
• Provided adult learners, in particular women, migrant women and people of LGBTQ* communities tools for individual online learning or learning in groups to upskill their basic knowledge about the linkages between gender and climate change.
• Through (trans)national exchange built the capacity of the partnering organisations, enabling them to strengthen or build policies and programmes to educate, advocate, raise awareness, inform wider audiences more comprehensively on the relations between gender inequality and climate as well as environmental crisis.
• Strengthened our transnational collaboration, which has bolster impacts not only at local and national levels, but also the European level, with concrete follow up actions planned

This project is funded by the European Union, as part of the Erasmus+ programme. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the writers and participants and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

All project outputs are available through the WIDE+ Resource Library and can be explored using the COPGendered filter.

Toolkit and briefing papers

The COPGendered toolkit contains a briefing paper and five thematic factsheets on gender equality and climate justice in seven languages. The papers introduce key concepts and themes at the intersection of gender and climate justice, including climate-induced migration, extractivism, energy, transport and LGBTQI+ perspectives. 

Available in English, German, Bulgarian, Danish, Spanish, French and Swedish.

“Gender & Climate Justice: Knowledge for Empowerment” is an online trainers resource collection of methodologies, facilitation tools and participatory learning approaches developed by project partners for educators, trainers and facilitators. 

The methods can be used by any person that is facilitating or training a group of people, whether they are experienced trainers or not. 

All methodologies are available in English and can be used as a standalone tool.

A free online learning course with 6 modules exploring the complex interconnections between gender and climate justice, featuring engaging videos, inputs, and exercises. Key topics include climate, gender, LGBTIQ+, mobility, energy, and extractivism, with examples from both the Global South and Global North.

The content is available in English, and Google Translate can be used to access the course in any preferred language.

Explore the platform and enroll here: https://comm.gendercc.net/.

Reports, materials and outcomes from international capacity-building events, conferences, public events and multiplier activities organised by project partners across Europe.