10 Key Principles for a Feminist and Just Energy Transition

The report outlines ten principles for a feminist and just energy transition, arguing that a shift to renewables must be accompanied by systemic change to avoid reproducing existing inequalities. It emphasizes the need for feminist people power, a care-centered economy, energy sovereignty, and the dismantling of the military-industrial complex. The document highlights the disproportionate impact of climate disasters on women and LGBTQIA+ individuals and calls for reparations for the Global South, the protection of Indigenous rights through Free, Prior and Informed Consent, and the rejection of 'false solutions' like carbon markets and geoengineering.

• Climate disasters disproportionately affect women and LGBTQIA+ people, with women's mortality rates being 14 times higher than men's during such events and women accounting for 80% of the population displaced by the climate crisis worldwide.
• Women environmental human rights defenders (WEHRDs) face severe repression, including sexual and gender-based violence driven by misogyny, and are often underrepresented in critical climate decision-making spaces.
• A feminist economy should replace the current capitalist system by centering care, interdependence, and ecodependence, ensuring that reproduction and care work are valued and that energy is treated as a common good rather than a commodity.
• The renewable energy workforce remains gender-imbalanced; women account for only 32% of the global renewables workforce despite making up 48% of the global labor market.
• Energy sovereignty requires that energy production and distribution be under public control, allowing communities to determine their own energy sources and preventing the sacrifice of territories to meet over-consumption elsewhere.
• The transition to renewables risks reproducing colonial and racialized dynamics, such as 'environmental racism' where BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by pollution and energy poverty.
• Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) must have the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and the 'right to say no' to energy and mineral projects on their lands to prevent further dispossession.
• The global military sector contributes 5.5% of worldwide carbon emissions but remains largely unaccountable, as reporting of military emissions under the Paris Agreement is voluntary.
• Global South nations are often trapped in a 'fossil debt trap' where climate finance is provided primarily through loans rather than grants, increasing indebtedness and forcing a reliance on extractive exports.
• Many 'Nature-based Solutions' (NBS), carbon markets, and geoengineering projects are identified as 'false solutions' that enable corporate greenwashing and avoid genuine emissions cuts while risking further land-grabbing.
• Intellectual property rights (IPRs) and the TRIPS agreement act as primary barriers to the transfer of environmentally sound technologies to the Global South, hindering technological sovereignty.

APA

Fernandes, M., Reindl, M.-S., & Booth, T. (2025). 10 Key Principles for a Feminist and Just Energy Transition. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/10-key-principles-FINAL-v3.pdf

Chicago

Fernandes, Marianna, Marie-Sol Reindl, and Tyler Booth. 10 Key Principles for a Feminist and Just Energy Transition. Friends of the Earth International, 2025. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/10-key-principles-FINAL-v3.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{fernandes2025key, author = {Fernandes, Marianna and Reindl, Marie-Sol and Booth, Tyler}, title = {{10 Key Principles for a Feminist and Just Energy Transition}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2025}, month = jun, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/10-key-principles-FINAL-v3.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }