🗣♀️ We need more women climate speakers – and there’s a tool for that. 🗣♀️

I recently came across Women and Climate, a speaker database specifically for women in climate. I’ve had the pleasure to collaborate with some stellar women in panels and events within the last few months, but the reality nonetheless is that gender imbalance is - unfortunately - a common theme at many events I attend or panels/webinars I am asked to speak on.

It is widely recognised that women are disproportionately facing the effects of climate change. Now women are also disproportionately delivering the solutions to this challenge:

💪 The concept “net zero,” which underpins the #ParisAgreement was actually devised by a group of 30 women. It is this concept that has allowed global leaders to finally understand the urgency and, with a clear objective, begin to cooperate to create actionable policy.

🏛️ A 2019 study found that increasing women’s representation in national parliaments leads to the adoption of more stringent climate change policies, resulting in lower emissions.

❌ Yet at #COP27, out of the 111 speakers in the first two days, just 7 of them were women.

Organisers: hold yourself accountable to your speaker line up. Speakers: ask who else is speaking and insist on gender balance.

Take a look at the speaker platform here: https://lnkd.in/dvkb6ZY5.

This list goes on, but shout out to the women climate advocates and leaders I’ve had the pleasure of working with in the carbon dioxide removal space: Venna Lepel, Marta Krupinska, Leila Toplic, Hanna Ojanen, Mary Yap, Cozette Wachtmeister-Zeito, Gabrielle Walker, Isabella Corpora, Marianne Tikkanen, Berta Moya, PhD, Frauke Kracke, Natalia Dorfman, Radhika Moolgavkar, JD, Helen Bray, Anna Lerner Nesbitt, Anna J. Lehner, Eve Tamme, Joanna Klitzke, Annie Nichols. If you are not already following them, I highly recommend doing so.