Azerbaijan appoints no women to 28-member Cop29 climate committee
by Damian Carrington Environment editor from Environment | The Guardian on (#6HW2G)
Campaigners condemn decision as regressive, saying climate change affects whole world, not half of it'
The organising committee for the Cop29 global climate change summit in Azerbaijan in December comprises 28 men and no women, the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has announced.
The decision was called regressive" by the She Changes Climate campaign group, which said climate change affects the whole world, not half of it". In contrast, 63% of the members of the organising committee for the Cop28 climate summit, held in the United Arab Emirates last month, were women.
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