Without gender justice, there is no climate justice - so far, so well known.

Would the world be more climate-friendly and sustainable if more women were at the decision-making levers, and if so, can this also be empirically proven? A British-Austrian group of researchers led by Mathilde Rainard (University of Leeds) took a detailed look at this. For this purpose, data from the Global Gender Gap Index, the Gender Inequality Index and the Environmental Performance Index, which are available for 142 countries of the world, were statistically analysed and discussed with experts. On the one hand, it could be proven that countries with better gender equality per capita have lower CO2 emissions. But on the other hand, some correlations were much weaker than expected - or even missing. For example, the correlation between gender equality and environmental performance is only significant in rich countries, but not in poorer ones. The correlation is therefore more complex than expected.

A scientific contribution to the research can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eDJPRCwC