Friends of the Earth is an international network of environmental organizations in 74 countries that campaigns for a healthy and sustainable relationship between human beings and the environment.

* Jenny Hawley - Introduction *1. Diane Elson, University of Essex - Women's empowerment and environmental sustainability in the context of international UN agreements *2. Wanjira Maathai, Green Belt Movement, Kenya - Women as drivers of forest restoration to combat climate change *3. Lyla Mehta and Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex - Why do gender equality and sustainability go hand in hand? *4. Caroline Lucas, UK Green Party MP - Is there a specific role for women in helping to achieve environmental sustainability through politics? *5. Susan Buckingham, Feminist geographer, Brunel University - The institutionalisation and masculinisation of environmental knowledge *6. Yvonne Orengo, Andrew Lees Trust - Media empowering women in southern Madagascar *7. Julie A. Nelson, Economist, University of Massachusetts Boston - Empowering a balanced and useful economics of sustainability: the role of gender *8. Anna Fitzpatrick, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London - The role of fashion in bringing about social and ecological change *9. Celia Alldridge, Activist with the World March of Women - How the defence of the commons and territories has become a core part of feminist, anti-capitalist struggles *10. Vandana Shiva, Philosopher, activist and co-author of Ecofeminism - Hand in hand: women's empowerment and sustainability *11. Quinn Bernier, Chiara Kovarik, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing, International Food Policy Research Institute - Women's empowerment in sustainable agriculture *12. Isabel Bottoms and Amena Sharaf, Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights - The impacts of environmental mismanagement on Egypt's poor *13. Nathalie Holvoet and Liesbeth Inberg, University of Antwerp - How gender-sensitive are National Adaptation Programmes of Action? Selected findings from a desk review of thirty-one sub-Saharan African countries *14. Shukri Haji Ismail Bandare and Fatima Jibrell, NGO leaders - Women, conflict and the environment in Somali society *15. Esther Mwangi, Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) - Gender, participation and community forestry: lessons from beneath the canopy *16. Barbara Stocking, Former CEO of Oxfam GB - Putting gender equality at the heart of Oxfam's work *17. Nidhi Tandon, Networked Intelligence for Development, Canada - From individual to communal rights: empowering women for sustainable use of natural resources *18. Maria Mies, Sociologist, activist and co-author of Ecofeminism - Mother Earth *19. Sarah Fisher, Population and Sustainability Network - Sexual and reproductive health and rights: a win-win for women and sustainability *20. Kate Metcalf and colleagues, UK Women's Environmental Network - The power of grassroots action for women's empowerment and the environment *21. Marylyn Haines Evans, National Federation of Women's Institutes - One hundred years of collective action for environmental change *22. Juliet Davenport, CEO of Good Energy - The impact of gender balance in the renewable energy sector *23. Emma Howard Boyd, 30% Club for women in business leadership - More women in business for a sustainable economy *24. Fiona Reynolds, Former director general of the National Trust - Sustainability is about people *25. Cathy Newman, Journalist and TV presenter for Channel 4 News, UK - Sexism and gender equality in British politics *26. Sarah Richardson, Historian, University of Warwick - Mistresses of their own destiny: a history of women's empowerment in nineteenth-century British politics