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Previous Gender Composition Reports: 

FCCC/CP/2025/4

FCCC/CP/2024/4

FCCC/CP/2023/4

FCCC/CP/2022/3

FCCC/CP/2021/4

FCCC/CP/2020/3

FCCC/CP/2019/9

FCCC/CP/2018/3

FCCC/CP/2017/6

FCCC/CP/2016/4

FCCC/CP/2015/6

FCCC/CP/2014/7

FCCC/CP/2013/4

Related information

Achieving the goal of gender balance. Technical paper by the secretariat available here>>>

Gender pledge in UNFCCC Conferences

In pursuit of balanced gender distribution across panelists/speakers, side events and exhibits organizers are asked to pledge to the commitment and indicate planned gender distribution during the applications. 

The side events and exhibits application manual can be consulted here>>>

The gender composition report is published every year by the Secretariat to support Parties in tracking progress on gender balance to promote a gender-sensitive climate policy.

Gender balance

 

 

 

The report includes two main components: The gender composition of decision-making and technical bodies under UN Climate Change (also known as constituted bodies) as well as national delegations to climate conferences. 

The latest report also includes information related to several mandated deliverables under the Belém gender action plan for 2026–2034, such as on the gender composition of Party delegates having received funding through the trust fund for participation in the UNFCCC process for in-person participation in United Nations climate change conferences.

📄 Based on the current data:

  • 7 out of 17 constituted bodies reported having achieved the goal of gender balance.
  • Overall, female representation on constituted bodies averaged 44%, compared with 40% in 2025. 
  • Between 2013 and 2026, female representation has increased in 12 constituted bodies, most significantly in the Advisory Board of the Santiago network (from 33 to 66 per cent). 
  • At COP 30, CMP 20 and CMA 7 the representation of women increased by 5.8 percentage point (Party Delegates) compared to COP 29, CMP 19 and CMA 6. A similar increase (4.1 percentage points) can be observed in representation of women among heads and deputy heads of delegation.
  • At SB 64 there was a reduction of 2.6 percentage points compared with SB 62 (50.6 per cent representation of women among Party delegates). Among heads and deputy heads of delegation, an increase of 3.1 percentage points in the representation of women (to 43.2 per cent) can be observed when compared with SB 62.

 

Here are some findings highlighted in the case study featured in the report:

  • A total of 322 delegates31 received funding through the trust fund for participation in the UNFCCC process for in-person participation in the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém, of which 141 (44 per cent) were women.
  • A total of 186 delegates32 received funding through the trust fund for in-person participation in SB 64, of which 80 (43 per cent) were women.
  • Women accounted for the majority of Party delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém and SB 64 from Latin American and Caribbean States (66 and 60 per cent respectively of total delegates from Latin American and Caribbean States), and for the majority of Party delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém from Eastern European States (57 per cent of total delegates from Eastern European States).
  • In comparison to the information presented in the 2023 report, the number of women who received funding through the trust fund has increased from 37 per cent in the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh to 44 per cent in the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém.

Consult the latest gender composition report here>>>  to know more.

 

Previous reports included other case studies as:

a) Analysis of speaking times during plenaries and meetings (FCCC/CP/2021/4, chap. IV, and FCCC/CP/2022/3, chap. III.A);

b) Review of activities carried out by Chile (FCCC/CP/2021/4) and Mexico (FCCC/CP/2022/3) to increase the representation of women in leadership positions within the UNFCCC process and in their delegation to the UNFCCC; 

c) Gender composition of Party delegates having received funding through the Trust Fund for Participation in the UNFCCC Process for in-person participation in the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh (FCCC/CP/2023/4);

d) Party delegates having received funding through the trust fund for participation in the UNFCCC process for in-person participation in UNFCCC sessions held between 2013 and 2023 (FCCC/CP/2024/4);

e) Representatives of admitted observer organizations attending the most recent UNFCCC sessions (FCCC/CP/2024/4);

f) Gender composition of the Staff of the secretariat (FCCC/CP/2024/4);

g) Gender balance in UNFCCC side event panels (FCCC/CP/2025/4);

h) Gender composition across the Rio Convention (FCCC/CP/2025/4).

 

 

 

More information on the election and appointment of members for positions on bodies under the Convention, Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement is constantly updated here>>>

 

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