Roots Rising is a campaign developed as a direct response to the significant lack of funding for feminist climate solutions and the need to transform numerous bilateral pledges and commitments into significant climate action by tapping into the brilliance of feminist climate justice practitioners.
Roots Rising aims to mobilize at least $100 million of new funding for gender-just climate action by 2026, and significantly more by 2030. The campaign underscores three pivotal aims:
1. Climate finance reaching the local level;
2. Climate finance supporting gender-just climate initiatives, specifically led by women, girls, inter, non-binary and trans people and gender-diverse people, particularly those from Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and rural backgrounds; and
3. Inclusion of women, girls, inter, non-binary and trans people and gender-diverse people in climate finance decision-making.
Roots Rising provides a first-of-its-kind participatory platform to attract higher quantities of funding from governments and philanthropy that otherwise does not reach the grassroots. By leveraging existing and established entities, the campaign will ensure that funding flows directly to feminist grassroots movements, eliminating unnecessary hurdles and guaranteeing alignment with gender-just climate action.
Importantly, Roots Rising isn't reinventing the wheel; it bridges the gap between existing climate finance and gender-just funding streams, strategically channeling resources towards the communities that need them most, are leading climate adaptation and mitigation, and who hold the most transformative potential for leading us towards healthier people and planet.
The campaign recognizes that one of the obstacles in gender-just climate finance is the specific skills and time required to develop gender-just indicators and strategies for large climate financiers, often due to internal bureaucracy. Importantly, while this campaign is not introducing a new concept, it intentionally breaks down the silos between climate finance and women's rights funding flows. By bridging this gap, the campaign highlights this intersection and ensures a more holistic approach to funding.
1. Mobilize at least $100 million of new funding for gender-just climate action by 2026 and set ambitious and justice-oriented mobilization targets by 2030.
2. Provide governments and private funders an accessible mapping of funding mechanisms currently resourcing gender-just climate action at local, regional, and global scales with core, flexible, and multi-year funding.
3. Grow the evidence that flexible, core funding and multi-year funding is essential to strengthening systemic, intersectional, and gender-just climate action to increase the availability of this type of high-quality funding from governments and philanthropy.
4. Leverage the Campaign as an opportunity to foster collaborations among governments and create possible partnerships between governments and private philanthropy, ensuring continued and high-quality funding for gender-just climate action.
5. Register and follow the public and private resources mobilized by Campaign Partners.
