A Feminist Blueprint for Adaptation, Resilience, and Climate Justice (Available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese)
This working paper argues that care systems—encompassing paid and unpaid care work, social protection, and community healing networks—are essential infrastructure for climate resilience and justice. Despite their centrality, care systems remain largely invisible in climate finance architecture.
The report calls for a paradigm shift: to treat care as climate infrastructure, embed reparative principles into financing mechanisms, and ensure inclusive governance that elevates caregivers’ voices—especially women, Afrodescendant, and Indigenous communities.
Through detailed analysis of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), Adaptation Fund (AF), and the emerging Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), the paper proposes concrete reforms to integrate care into each mechanism’s policies, indicators, and financing instruments.
By centering care, climate finance can evolve from extractive models toward regenerative, community-led systems that sustain well-being, equity, and collective resilience—transforming how we define, govern, and invest in climate action.