No Implementation without Equality: Women as the Foundation of the Future of Climate Multilateralism

Climate Week NYC 2026

As the global climate agenda shifts from negotiation to implementation, GWL Voices and Plataforma CIPÓ will convene a high-level dialogue during Climate Week NYC to explore why women's leadership is essential to delivering effective climate action.

The event will feature the launch of GWL Voices' new Spotlight Report on Women in Global Climate and Environmental Leadership, highlighting three decades of leadership data and making the case that gender-responsive climate governance, finance, and decision-making are fundamental to achieving the goals of the post-COP30 implementation agenda and preparing for COP31.

• Date: 24 September 2026

• Location: Baha’í International Community Center

• Time: 10:15 am- 11:30 am

Duration: 90 minutes

Hosts

• GWL Voices

• Plataforma CIPÓ

Moderator

• Renata Koch, Founder, EmpoderaClima

Speakers

• Mary Robinson, Co-founder, Project Dandelion; Former President of Ireland; Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; GWL Voices Member (TBC)
• Rachel Kyte - UK Special Envoy on Climate, Professor in Climate Policy at Oxford; GWL Voices member; former World Bank Group Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change - TBC

• Maiara Folly, Executive Director, Plataforma CIPÓ

• Dan Perell, Bahá’í International Community

• Viviane Balbino Reis, Minister Counsellour of the Brazilian Mission to the UN, and chief of the UN Division