KlimaSeniorinnen verdict at ECHR Euronews Green celebrates our year’s top unsung heroes of the climate movement – and all of them are women! From world leaders to climate activists and even lawyers, the Euronews Green team has rounded up a list of individuals we believe deserve recognition for all their hard work and dedication to the green movement in 2024. This list features a climate youth leader who championed mental health by writing about eco-anxiety, a 77-year-old grandmother who has served jail time for action against Big Oil, as well as senior groups who have led – and won – landmark legal fights in the courts. Incredibly, and by pure chance, our final top seven were all women. Women remain less represented at climate decision tables As an all-female team ourselves, we were delighted to see that our shortlist was all women. This is despite the fact that there are fewer women in climate leadership roles. That is something the global movement SHE Changes Climate hopes to address – by supporting diplomats behind the scenes to appoint more women into leadership roles at the Conferences of the Parties (COPs), galvanising public support and opinion and helping women find their own platform and voice. “Women represent more than 50 per cent of the population, and yet we continue to be spoken for,” says Bianca Pitt, co-founder of SHE Changes Climate. “When you look at the major climate negotiations, you see rows of suits removed from the lived experience of women experiencing the impacts of climate change . Enough is enough. Women must be represented in climate negotiations.” Related Climate change remains worse for women and girls — but it doesn’t have to be Fighting gender inequality crucial to tackle climate crisis, says UN This leads us nicely to our selection […]