Nada Chaabene

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 9-25-2025

Abstract

With the COP30 choosing “mutirão”, which means collective community work, as their central theme (COP30, 2024), the president of the conference in Brazil emphasizes that it’s an opportunity to connect global actions and create a mobilization chain of the expertise of people from various communities and from different sectors to move from negotiation to concrete action (COP30, 2024). This cannot be done without a proper representation of all the underrepresented communities of young people and women, as discussed in the Sharm El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda (SAA).

This paper explores the ongoing challenges of inclusive representation in decision-making spaces like the COP. It also highlights the struggles of the youth with being marginalized in climate policymaking despite being the ones who will be implementing these climate policies. Moreover, It explores the crises of gender equity in climate decision-making and, as I like to call it, the curse of the 30% that has been hunting women's representation for more than a decade. Furthermore, it explores a case study of the annual COP simulation organized by the British University in Egypt and the UNDP Egypt, and it’s impact on youth representation and gender equity in climate policymaking, and finally some recommendations and solutions that can be implemented at future COPs.

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