ACTIVISTS and politicians at the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow joined calls for a feminist green new deal today, warning that women are being disproportionately affected by the climate emergency. 

Women are considered more vulnerable to the crisis as they form a large majority of the world’s poor and often depend on small-scale farming, while UN statistics have indicated that they form 80 per cent of people displaced by climate change.

In Glasgow, where events throughout the day focused on the relationship between gender and climate change, speakers at the Not Without Us fringe said that the views and wellbeing of women must not be put second in tackling the crisis.