Climate and Care

    Rede A Ponte’s "Climate and Care" program was created to address one of the greatest challenges of our time: the climate crisis, which disproportionately affects women, especially women who are Black, Indigenous, or from marginalized communities. Our goal is to promote a climate agenda that acknowledges and confronts these inequalities, connecting climate justice to the redistribution of care work. We do this by empowering women parliamentarians as climate leaders in their territories, strengthening their political action, and promoting evidence-based climate policies that integrate gender, race, and sustainability issues.

    Empower climate leadership within municipal and state legislatures

    Ongoing training + Wave of Bills (Maré de PLs)

    Civic mobilization and engagement

    WHAT WE DO IN THE CLIMATE AND CARE PROGRAM

    Networked Action: we create a network of city councilwomen and state representatives committed to promoting climate policies that are aligned with local needs.

    Training and Awareness: we offer high-quality training for parliamentarians and their teams that is essential for them to lead the climate agenda with both technical expertise and social sensitivity.

    Legislative Production: we support the development of innovative, evidence-based bills that are able to respond to the specific needs of vulnerable territories and ensure the implementation of a just climate transition.

    Civic Mobilization: we organize national campaigns to engage civil society, increasing pressure for the approval of bills and strengthening the connection between parliamentarians and their communities. Through digital platforms and strategic events, we promote narratives that highlight the role of women as leaders in the climate agenda.

    WHY CLIMATE AND CARE?


    Care work and the climate crisis are deeply interconnected. Women, who are already disproportionately burdened with unpaid care work, also face the direct impacts of extreme climate events, such as reduced access to water, food security, and threats to the livelihoods of their families and communities. We advocate that a just climate transition must incorporate the redistribution of care work and prioritize policies that protect the livelihoods of the most vulnerable populations.

    Our work is aligned with the ongoing effort to promote climate federalism, a model that recognizes and values the strategic role of states and municipalities in implementing climate policies.

    By strengthening the role of subnational legislatures, we expand the capacity of municipalities and states to integrate climate and social justice into their actions, directly connecting local demands to national and international frameworks. This approach is essential in a country as vast and diverse as Brazil, where climate impacts and social vulnerabilities vary widely across regions.