Women Climate Leaders Building On A Legacy Spanning 170 Years

John Tyndall has traditionally been heralded as the first scientist to discover the greenhouse effect in 1859. But three years earlier, American suffragist and amateur scientisthad conducted experiments using glass cylinders filled with different gases, exposing them to sunlight to measure temperature changes. Her paper, titled ‘Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun’s rays’, made almost the same claim as Tyndall, specifically about carbon dioxide and water vapor.

Luckily for the past few decades, the role and influence of women leading the political, economic and climate agenda has been recognised.brings with it unique perspectives and priorities, often emphasising issues such as social justice, community resilience, and intergenerational equity.

Future generations will not have to search far for good climate roles models to follow: Christiana Figueres, the former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, played a pivotal role in securing the Paris Agreement; Wangari Maathai, the founder of the Green Belt Movement, championed environmental conservation in Kenya; Vandana Shiva, an Indian scholar, has been a vocal advocate for biodiversity conservation and sustainable agriculture; in the United...

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