Research suggests that women are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change. It also finds that 80 per cent of people displaced by climate disasters are women and girls. So when COP29 host country Azerbaijan announced that there were no women and several fossil fuel executives appointed to its organising committee, both gender and climate activists around the world were not happy.
Peter Christoff is a political scientist, a senior research fellow with the Melbourne Climate Futures Initiative, and an honorary associate professor with the School of Geography, Atmospheric and Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
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