ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out three key lessons to be learned: there are no easy solutions; prevalent institutional power structures have hindered intersectional praxis in the UNFCCC; and intersectional inquiry and practice cannot be separated in the feminist political project. Building on these lessons and reflecting on theoretical principles of critical ecofeminist intersectionality can create new, and exciting, spaces for the next phase of feminist organising in the UNFCCC. Based on the empirical analysis of previous phases, coupled with a conceptual framework of ecofeminist intersectionality as critical praxis, this chapter suggests that there are three possible next phases: fold and withdraw, ‘business as usual’ or ‘ecofeminist transversal politics’. It is the third option that offers the most promising next phase of feminist praxis in the UNFCCC. Ecofeminist transversal politics offers feminists new language of co-resistances, or epistemic communities comprised of like-minded individuals or groups, that can help to shift the focus on women, as a homogenous group in need of masculine saviour, towards a focus on multiple and intersecting lines of inequalities and arguments based on a feminist vision for a different kind of feminist climate politics.
