Pacific Women in Climate Change Negotiations

Mar 9, 2021 | George Carter and Elise Howard, Asia & The Pacific Policy Forum
View Original

The under-representation of women in climate negotiations is well-established. When the global multilateral body on climate change, the Conferences of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), first met in 1995, around 18 per cent of all delegates sent by parties to the convention were women. While the number of total women state delegates gradually rose to 40 percent by the 17^th COP in 2013, some states still did not send women delegates.