From Bogotá to Belém: How SRHR Advocates Are Reshaping Climate Conversations

Sono Aibe and Savannah Carlson attend ICFP 2025 on behalf of Panorama's Climate x SRHR Collaborative.

Thousands of global health leaders, advocates, and innovators filled the halls of the Ágora Bogota Convention Center in Colombia in November 2025, ready to shape the future of family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Under the theme, “Equity Through Action: Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All,” the 7th International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) 2025 put intersecting challenges—including climate change, poverty, and conflict—at the center of critical SRHR discussions.

Representing Panorama Global’s Climate x SRHR Collaborative, Sono Aibe and Savannah Carlson joined gender, health, and climate colleagues at ICFP 2025. Under this year’s newly added Environment and Climate Change track, attendees exchanged ideas and solutions on ways to make SRHR systems, services, and programs more climate resilient, especially amid intensifying climate disasters.

What We Heard at ICFP

Throughout workshops, panels, and side events, experts shared insights into how climate change disrupts SRH access and creates barriers to care—disproportionately affecting women and marginalized communities.

Sessions showcased significant progress, offered clear evidence and data to support advocacy, and amplified inspiring stories of resilience and adaptation. Importantly, the gender-climate communities were clear-eyed about the gaps that remain—climate change is happening now, disrupting access to care for women and girls, and SRHR practitioners have to adapt in real time. Conversations throughout ICFP 2025 left us both inspired and galvanized for the urgent work ahead.

Taking the Message to COP30 in Brazil

Participants at the post-ICFP workshop, “From Bogotá to Belém: SRHR as a Catalyst for Climate Justice.”

As ICFP wrapped up, SRHR advocates looked to COP30—the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference—to bring a gender and health lens to climate preparedness, adaptation, and resilience conversations. With this upcoming global moment in mind, Panorama Global and partners CHED Solutions, the Population Institute, and the Population Council hosted a post-ICFP workshop on November 7th. “From Bogotá to Belém: SRHR as a Catalyst for Climate Justice” created space for SRHR implementers and advocates at ICFP to discuss strategies, learnings, and recommendations for colleagues headed to COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

Participants discuss gender equity in climate commitments at the post-ICFP workshop.

At the half-day workshop, youth activists, national adaptation plan negotiation experts, and leaders in climate and SRHR integration shared powerful insights. These discussions facilitated deep conversation and thoughtful feedback on the content of the draft Bogotá–Belém Declaration, a collective call for intentional integration of SRHR, gender equality, and health equity into global climate adaptation and finance frameworks. Participants aligned on concrete approaches to embed SRHR in climate justice work—through cross-sectoral partnerships, intersectional approaches, informed advocacy, youth empowerment, and robust accountability measures.​

A Collective Call to Action

The Declaration encourages the SRHR and climate communities to reflect on the interconnectedness of climate and gender justice. The Declaration will remain open for feedback through the end of COP30 and a final version will be published later this year.

Achieving climate justice requires that women and girls’ health and rights are guaranteed within climate policies, decision making, and funding. As delegates convene in Belém, this collective message invites the global community to move from dialogue to action, urging negotiators and leaders to recognize that health resilience is climate resilience.

Read the draft Bogotá–Belém Declaration