The climate crisis is destroying lives, homes, and livelihoods, but its impacts are unequal, harming some populations and regions with far greater severity than others. Shockingly, 80 percent of people displaced by climate change are women and girls, according to UN Environment.

Ecofeminism is defined by academics as a mix of political activism and intellectual critique that takes on traditionally harmful systems within both gender dynamics and the environment. It sounds complex, and it is. But its core principles are clear.

At the 2021 Climate Summit in Glasgow, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared that Canada “would take a leadership role in the fight against climate change.”