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We Launched Spark and Hosted a Debate Around Feminist Visions for a Just Energy Future
On 4 September, we hosted "Sparking Debate: Feminist Visions for a Just Energy Future," a virtual roundtable discussion that brought together activists, experts, academics, and advocates to explore how feminist and human rights-based perspectives can reimagine energy systems that are genuinely fit for purpose, gender-transformative, and just.
The event featured the participation in the discussions of Maggie Rochi, our Programme Officer on Climate and Environmental Justice, Mara Dolan, coordinator of policy at the Women's Environment & Development Organisation, Lauren Nel, Legal Coordinator Officer for the Just Energy Transition Africa initiative at Natural Justice, and Monica Guiteras Blaya, member at Engineering without Borders.
This event's primary objective was to launch Spark, our new collaborative online platform, and to facilitate critical dialogue on transforming current energy systems beyond their fossil fuel dependence. Spark has been designed as a hub for organisations working at the intersection of gender, human rights, and the energy transition, offering advocacy materials, featuring the stories from frontline communities, and a space for collaborative engagement.
During her presentation, our Programme Officer, Maggie Rochi, invited the organisations participating in the event to join the project and expand the Spark network.
Additionally, participants explored feminist and human rights approaches to the energy transition. They emphasised that merely shifting from fossil fuels to renewable technologies is insufficient without deliberate efforts to embed human rights and gender equality at the core of the transition.
During her presentation, Maggie Rochi highlighted that current energy systems are marked by profound inequalities, including extractivism, energy poverty, and systems that consistently exclude women's voices whilst perpetuating gender-based discrimination. Mara Dolan examined how gender intersects with energy justice and explored what truly inclusive, consensual, and democratic energy decision-making looks like in practice. Lauren Nel from Natural Justice focused on centring justice at the initial stages of the energy production chain, addressing why gender matters for resource governance and women's challenges as transition mineral extraction increases. Finally, Monica Guiteras Blaya analysed the critical connection between political representation and policy transformation, examining whether representation actually translates into feminist energy policies, focusing on the case of Spain.
We invite organisations working at the intersection of gender, human rights, and energy justice to explore Spark at sparkajusttransition.com and consider joining this growing network. For more information about joining the Spark initiative, please contact Maggie Rochi directly at
