IPCC’s special report on cities is its first with majority-women authorship team
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) forthcoming special report on climate change and cities has more women than men on its authorship team, for the first time in the organisation’s history, according to analysis by Carbon Brief.
The analysis covers all assessment, special and methodology reports published over the IPCC’s 37-year history.
It reveals how the representation of women in the IPCC has steadily risen over time, from just 8% of authors in its first report in 1990 to 53% in its cities report, due to be published in March 2027.
