Launch of Women in Global Climate and Environmental Leadership

Despite their central role in community resilience, adaptation, and environmental stewardship, women remain markedly underrepresented in the highest levels of climate decision-making. GWL Voices’ new Spotlight report on Women in Global Climate and Environmental Leadership presents new figures spanning over 30 years of data on leadership and participation at seven key multilateral climate and environmental institutions, including the three Rio Conventions. By also examining first-hand testimonies of women climate leaders  and institutional policies across these institutions, the new report offers a unique analysis that can help stimulate global debates around gender equality and climate change. 

The High-Level launch of the report at London Climate Action Week 2026 will be followed by a panel discussion with women climate leaders across generations, think-tanks, research institutes, civil society, and others, providing a timely and much-needed quantitative and qualitative overview of how power is experienced and exercised by women in multilateral climate and environmental governance - with a view towards  building a gender-equal multilateral system that tackles the climate and environmental crises effectively and fairly.

For more information, please visit www.gwlvoices.org