OUT for Sustainability

There is increasing convergence around the idea that an intersectional approach to climate change adaptation is needed to reach the most vulnerable people, who often experience intersecting structures of inequity. ❓ But what does this look like in practice? And how does #intersectionality build on already established principles for inclusive adaptation? 📽️ Our new explainer video breaks this down: https://lnkd.in/g8xRH9Ux If you’re at #COP29 and heading to Development and Climate Days on Sunday, please join Joanita Babirye, Bridget K. Burns, Diego de Leon Segovia, Menka Goundan and I to unpack intersectional approaches to adaptation in an interactive session. We'll be in Natavan Room at 3:45 - Session 4C. #DCDays24 International Institute for Sustainable Development | OUT for Sustainability | Girls For Climate Action | Women's Environment & Development Organization | Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW) With gratitude to IrishAid for the support in undertaking this work!

If you’re attending #COP29, don’t miss our side event next week! Join us and the #SRHR and Climate Justice Coalition for the session: “Climate, Gender and Health: Essentials for Resilient Communities.” The event will center on the critical review of the Gender Action Plan (GAP) and its significance for the implementation of various intersecting areas, particularly in health, including Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). 📆 20 November 🕑11:30 AM - 1:00 PM 📍Side Event 8, Blue Zone Hear insights from experts, including Eleanor Blomstrom from Women Deliver, working at the intersection of gender, health, and climate. Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW) Sex & Samfund / Danish Family Planning Association OUT for Sustainability

Tomorrow at #COP29 I’m hosting this discussion and mixer on the intersection of 2SLGBTQAI+ folks and climate change. Evidence shows that queer folks are made more vulnerable than most during shock events related to climate disasters. I hosted similar events in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and this year in Azerbaijan, in the Canada pavilion at various climate conferences. One thing is clear to me: Canada remains one of the best places in the world to be who we are, and for that I am incredibly grateful. We must continue to use our voice and privilege to make space for folks who can’t. Canada has tons to do on climate and Indigenous rights, but on queerness we remain one of the best places to be born— makes me proud. Hosting such a discussion in a country where homosexuality has extremely limited legal protections comes with its challenges. The UNFCCC spaces offer protection that would otherwise not be possible. I am excited for this chat with Dr Joss Reimer, Parul Kanwar, Diego de Leon Segovia and Cory Witter tomorrow. Grateful for the support from Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Medical Association, Northern Council for Global Cooperation and Queering Climate Dominique Souris. See you there! 🍻

For those at #COP29, please come join the various events in which OUT for Sustainability will be participating. Thank you to all the organization and persons who opened your spaces to enhance #queer voices demanding #intersectional #equitable #inclusive #CliamteAction

It is with great excitement to share the Commission for Environmental Cooperation discussion paper on Environmental Justice for 2SLGBTQIA+ Communities: Dimensions on Queering Environmental Policy in North America, I had the privilege to co-author together with the outstanding friends and colleagues Pablo Emiliano Reyes Galindo and Leo Goldsmith Following the first roundtable discussion in October of last year, the executive director commissioned this paper to further understand the theory and practice of the impacts of #EnvironmentalDegradation and #ClimateChange on #LGBTQ people and their Indigenous counterparts, success stories of policy integration and their implementations and recommended next actions for the Canadian, Mexican, and US governments. The report delves into queer and environmentalist theory to provide a solid conceptual framework, followed by a comprehensive summary of the most up-to-date peer-reviewed data on the #intersectionalities of #2SLGBTQIA+ and #AirQuality, #GreenSpaces, #ClimateDisasters, #FoodSecurity, #LandUse, #WaterSustainability, #Biodiversity, #Health, #GreenFinance, #Pollution, and #EnvironmentalActivism. The study looks at both the continental territory of Turtle Island (AKA North America) as well as the overseas territories in the Caribbean and then the Pacific Ocean that are part of the region. It also provides a historical and current set of actions taken by this #Canada, #Mexico, and the #UnitedStates to address the needs and experiences of the queer population in the region in relation to #ClimateAction, #EnvironmentalConservation and #SustainableDevelopment, and concludes with a series of recommendations to attend existing gaps. I look forward to hearing your comments and questions. Very special thanks and huge congratulations to (the real super stars) my fellow authors, as well as Jorge Daniel Taillant for his leadership and vision and his amazing team Georgina O'Farrill Patrick Tonissen José Antonio Casis, and all the contributors Natalia Villaran-Quinones Beth Teper Harlan Pruden Reilly Hirst Visionary, Strategic and Fiscal Leader Allie Shinn Lilian Barraclough MES, EPt (and any one missing!) Stay tuned for more!! Roundtable background: https://lnkd.in/gmZh__-S Full report: https://lnkd.in/gdc46k3S (soon to be in Spanish and French) More on CEC Environmental Justice work: https://lnkd.in/g_dSZ6YZ