We often speak of a broken system, but as many in the movement have identified, these systems of power—embedded in multilateral spaces, the international financial architecture, trade regimes, and others—are simply working as designed to uphold imperialist power dynamics. 2025 has been a defining moment in revealing the crisis of greed at the heart of such systems.
Going into 2026, we will scrutinize progress on and leverage opportunities with the following entry points for feminist civil society advocacy:
- The First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels, co-hosted by the governments of Colombia and the Netherlands in April 2026;
- The continued efforts of the UN Secretary General High-Level Expert Group on Beyond GDP to develop and standardize new measures of well-being to replace GDP;
- Progress from the Seville outcome’s borrowers platform and the African Credit Rating Agency to strengthen the collective voice of countries facing unjust debt burdens;
- Growing South-South trade cooperation to challenge decades of North-South trade imbalances and advance economic sovereignty for the Global South;
- Continued negotiations under the UN Tax Convention throughout 2026, leading up to the submission of the final text and protocols in 2027;
- The work towards implementing the Just Transition Mechanism decided at COP30, as well as the Article 9 work program on climate finance and the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage.
That list is not exhaustive, particularly as we recognize that much progress lies not in the halls of climate and development negotiations or in the deliberations of technocrats, but with people’s movements that are doing the difficult and often invisible work to advance economic and ecological justice on the ground.
As feminists, we continue to find strength in our collective struggle for care and liberation. We know that we hold the moral clarity and radical proposals for justice that are needed to build the world we seek—and which we know is possible. And in a time of ecological breakdown, worsening inequality, and blatant imperialism, we hold steadfast to that vision, affirming that it is the only way forward.
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