Climate in Numbers: COPs in male hands

The gender gap at the UN climate conferences is closing only very slowly. The COP is still dominated by men. The delegations of the Parties at the COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh consisted of 63 percent men and only 37 percent women. At the first COP in 1995, the imbalance was even greater, at 88 to 12 percent. However, almost 30 years later, the international climate community is still far from a balance.