Climate Festival 2026: Reproductive justice and the climate emergency: a discussion with Marie Morice from the Women's Environmental Network
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Venue:
Birkbeck Central
This talk explores how the climate emergency is already affecting reproductive health in the UK, not as a future or distant risk, but as a lived reality. It examines how climate breakdown intersects with bodily autonomy, including the right to have or not have children and the right to parent in safe and sustainable communities, while centring the disproportionate impacts on women facing poverty, inequality, and racialised harms. The Feminist Toxic Free Futures campaign will be used as a concrete case study, particularly in relation to harmful chemicals, air pollution, and everyday environmental exposures. The session connects environmental justice, feminism, and reproductive rights in an accessible way.
Contact name: External Relations Events
Speakers-
Marie Morice
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Marie Morice is Wen’s Feminist Toxic Free Futures Policy Campaigner, working at the intersection of environmental justice, women’s health, and reproductive and sexual rights. She brings over 25 years’ experience in climate and sustainability leadership, having previously held senior roles at organisations including the UN, WWF, Barclays, and Accenture. Alongside her policy work, she is also a sexologist and founder of The Pleasure Atelier®, a global platform focused on closing the pleasure gap and embedding sexual wellbeing into broader health and leadership conversations.
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