Introducing Weaving Green Justice: Bearing Witness at COP30

As the newly appointed Canada Country Chair for the G100 Security & Defence Wing, I am proud to introduce a project that has shaped my recent work and deepened my commitment to global climate defence: Weaving Green Justice, my institutional and autoethnographic vlog series documenting the negotiations, tensions, and lived realities of COP30.

COP30 was more than a climate summit. It was a convergence of power, vulnerability, and hope, a space where nations negotiated the future of our planet while communities outside the halls continued to face fires, floods, and displacement. Weaving Green Justice emerged from my desire to make these dynamics visible, accessible, and accountable.

Why a Vlog? Why Autoethnography?

Traditional reporting often flattens the complexity of climate negotiations, but this approach is different. Through autoethnography, I use my own lived experience (including moments of linguistic exclusion, cultural dissonance, and solidarity) as an analytical lens. This method allows me to connect personal insight with structural critique, weaving together:

• The formal negotiations inside COP30

• The protests, cultural expressions, and community actions outside

• The contradictions between political promises and lived realities

• The voices that are amplified…and those that are silenced

By grounding the series in both observation and personal reflection, Weaving Green Justice becomes not just documentation, but a way of holding power to account while centering justice, equity, and lived experience.

What the Series Covers

Across the COP30 season, I explore:

• The Mutirão and its promise of collective climate action

• The Gender Action Plan and the ongoing struggle for feminist climate policy

• The Latin American standoff over fossil fuel phase‑out

• The silencing of non-Anglophone delegates and the politics of language

• The gap between negotiation rhetoric and community realities

Each episode is a thread in a larger tapestry, one that reveals how climate defence is shaped by identity, power, and the politics of inclusion.

Why This Matters for G100

G100 is a global network committed to advancing women’s leadership across sectors, and climate security is one of the defining challenges of our time. Weaving Green Justice aligns with this mission by amplifying marginalized voices in global climate spaces, exposing the gendered and geopolitical dynamics of climate negotiations and modelling transparent, accessible, justice‑oriented communication

As Canada, Country Chair, I see this work as part of a broader commitment to security through equity, recognizing that climate defence, gender justice, and global security are inseparable.

Weaving Green Justice will continue beyond COP30. Future seasons will explore global summits, grassroots movements, and the evolving landscape of climate governance. Interlude episodes will reflect on academic spaces, political tensions, and the intersections of activism and scholarship.

This is only the beginning.