COP27 calls for more women engagement in climate action – Egypt Today

COP27 calls for more women engagement in climate action – Egypt Today

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt - 14 November 2022: Today, the main talk in the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh is about gender and how women’s role is important in preserving the environment. Several COP27 participants from different countries spoke to Egypt Today, calling for more women inclusion and gender justice when it comes to climate action.

Daniel Fisher from the UK told Egypt Today that it is so important to keep the indigenous leaders in general, and indigenous women in particular, involved not only in side events but also in decision making meetings.

“Without women in our projects, they cannot succeed,” said Fisher, who represents Ecosphere, which helps companies adopt climate change solutions for reaching zero net emissions. He also called for making gender equality voices be heard.

Moreover, Dorceta Taylor, a professor in Environmental Justice and Food Security at Yale University, told Egypt Today that her students and she are in Egypt and “are very actively involved in a host of issues about the gender, food security, justice and equality.”

“I am particularly excited about all the young women I am seeing here from hundreds of different countries and that is exciting because that means we have the