An Intersectionality Foreign Policy Toolkit: Operationalizing Intersectionality in Party Platforms for Greens

Falguni Lalwani, Heinrich Böll Foundation Thessaloniki (India)

This paper investigates how gender is discursively constructed in national climate strategies across Canada, India, and Germany, and how these constructions shape environmental harm, feminised labour, and the potential for just peace. Methodologically, it employs a comparative feminist discourse analysis and an intersectional lens to foreign, security, and climate policy documents across the three countries and shows that policy narratives often valorise “resilient women” to sustain ecological well-being while leaving colonial and structural inequalities intact. By exposing which environments and bodies are protected, extractable, or politically voiceless, the study argues that environmental peacebuilding must move beyond symbolic recognition toward material redistribution and intersectional justice, if it is to dismantle the power relations that reproduce environmental burdens for marginalised gender.