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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damian Carrington Environment editor

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Women added to cop29 climate summit committee after backlash - Caught on Camera

The Cop29 president-designate, Mukhtar Babayev, speaking at a Cop28 conference in Dubai.
The Cop29 president-designate, Mukhtar Babayev. The revised committee now consists of 29 men and 12 women. Photograph: UN Climate Change/AFP/Getty Images

The president of Azerbaijan has added 12 women to the previously all-male organising committee for the Cop29 global climate summit, which the country will host in December.

The move follows a backlash after the Guardian reported the initial 28-man composition of the committee, which was called “regressive” by the She Changes Climate campaign group. “Climate change affects the whole world, not half of it,” the group said.

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