Anuna De Wever Instagram – Last week, I spoke at the opening of the Women’s Forum Global Meeting in Paris, together with the brilliant @camilleaumontcarnel and @graine_de_possible .
I was asked to speak on leadership. Going on stage, specifically to talk about this topic, felt completely surreal after the massive letdown of leadership and display of corporate greed we had just collectively experienced at #COP26. I would like to share a part of my speech with you.
“Very often, just like today, we enter spaces which are built on foundations of colonialism and white supremacy with people present who are directly complicit in the injustice and horrible realities people have to live in today.
The executives that I will be sharing the stage with today, from corporations which make profit out of environmental degradation, oppression, hate and divide, aren’t exactly representatives of the kind of leadership I look up to.
Because of the reality we are in today, it is simply not enough anymore to talk about the climate and human rights crisis in these exclusive summits and events.
We can’t just talk about the crisis when it’s convenient to us, and when it suits us.
We need to start talking about it every single day.”
How do you think we can hold our leaders more accountable for the change we so desperately need after #COP26?
Let me know below 👇🏼
#WFGM21 @womens_forum | Posted on 22/Nov/2021 18:31:52
