Our climate justice agenda is connected by one question: who has the power to shape the future?

Young women must be able to shape climate decisions before they are finalized.

Meaningful participation requires more than invitations. It requires timely information, preparation, accessibility, financial support, decision-making power, and accountability.

Climate finance remains difficult to access for many young women-led and community-based initiatives.

Application systems are often complex. Funding cycles are short. Reporting burdens are heavy. Decisions are made far from affected communities.

Young women should not only receive climate finance. They should help define funding priorities, assess proposals, design financial mechanisms, and monitor results.

Adaptation is already happening in communities.

People are changing farming practices, protecting water sources, reorganizing care, diversifying livelihoods, sharing information, restoring ecosystems, and developing local systems of support.

Effective adaptation must recognize this knowledge and provide resources that strengthen, rather than replace, local leadership.

Some climate impacts cannot be adapted to.

Lives are lost. Homes disappear. Land becomes unusable. Cultural sites are destroyed. Communities are displaced. Health declines. Languages, traditions, and relationships to place may be permanently affected.

Loss and damage responses must recognize both economic and non-economic loss. Funding should be accessible, timely, rights-based, and responsive to the realities of women, young people, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, displaced communities, and people living in climate-vulnerable regions.

When climate shocks disrupt water, food, health, housing, transport, and public services, unpaid care work increases.

Women and girls often spend more time collecting water, finding food, supporting children, caring for sick relatives, rebuilding homes, and helping households survive. This affects education, health, income, rest, safety, and political participation.

Climate policy must recognize, reduce, and redistribute care work. Investment in water, clean energy, health systems, childcare, social protection, transport, and community support is also climate investment.

Climate change affects physical health, mental health, sexual and reproductive health, maternal health, nutrition, and access to care.

Climate shocks can also increase exposure to gender-based violence, exploitation, unsafe migration, early marriage, and harmful coping strategies.

Food, water, land, and biodiversity are deeply connected.

Young women contribute to agriculture, fisheries, pastoralism, seed preservation, water management, ecosystem restoration, and biodiversity protection. Yet many lack secure access to land, finance, technology, information, markets, and decision-making.

Climate solutions must protect land rights, food sovereignty, water access, biodiversity, and the knowledge of communities who have cared for ecosystems across generations.

Renewable energy can expand opportunity, improve health, reduce care burdens, support livelihoods, and strengthen resilience.

But energy transitions can also reproduce inequality if communities are displaced, workers are excluded, resources are extracted without consent, or clean technologies remain unaffordable.

Persons with disabilities face barriers during disasters, displacement, public consultations, transport, evacuation, information access, and recovery.

These barriers are created by systems, not by disability itself.

Disability inclusion must be built into climate policy, finance, events, infrastructure, communication, data, and emergency planning from the beginning. Young women with disabilities must be recognized as leaders and decision-makers, not only as people at risk.

Digital tools, artificial intelligence, climate data, remote sensing, early-warning systems, and clean technologies are increasingly shaping climate decisions.

These tools can expand access and improve planning. They can also deepen inequality, exclude communities, extract data, and centralize power.

The transition to low-carbon economies will reshape work, energy, transport, industry, agriculture, and public investment.

A just transition must create dignified opportunities while protecting workers, communities, and ecosystems.

Young women must be part of designing new jobs, training systems, enterprises, social protections, and public policies connected to the transition.