Connecting and Mentoring Women Leading Climate Action
The Women4Climate (W4C) program supports women leaders who are championing urban climate action initiatives that align with climate policy targets and pursue emissions reductions.
Latest: 2025 W4C program launches in March.
We will announce the new cohort in the next few days, watch this space! Details of the mentors, mentees and their projects will be posted on this page.
Championing Something New Can be Challenging.
The W4C program provides mentorship support, leadership training, and peer networking for emerging, mid-career, and established leaders who are responding to the climate emergency and pursuing climate action solutions across sectors and industries in the Metro Vancouver region.
The program is comprised of three core components as we believe that these components, together, can accelerate program participant’s capacity for championing climate action:
Why Women & Climate Action?
To make a progress on climate targets and create a healthy, safe, and prosperous future for generations to come, we need climate leadership to be inclusive and representative of the community. Women make up about half of the population and bring important perspectives and lived experiences that can inform climate solutions. Although there has been significant progress made on gender equity, women remain underrepresented in leadership positions and at decision making tables—and support for their ideas, solutions, and voices will facilitate progress on climate action.
The W4C program builds from a legacy of success and collaboration with C40 Cities, the City of Vancouver, and a strong network of 80+ local climate leaders that are advancing tangible progress within their sectors and communities. More about the history of the program and its impact around the globe can be found here.
A Commitment to Inclusivity
The term “women” is used inclusively. The program welcomes 2SLGBTQIA+ people with gender identities and expressions that exist between and outside of the binary. The program highly encourages the participation Indigenous and Black women, women of colour, women with disabilities, and immigrant women.
The W4C Team
Nadine Jarry
