Ireland’s first female president and United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Change Mary Robinson knows all too well what it means to both be in top positions as a woman, and just how few women manage to get to these positions. Mary Robinson also understands the implications of having climate policy spaces dominated by men while women are either absent, present but absent in critical positions, or missing completely. Mary Robinson rightly notes that climate change disproportionately affects women, especially in the Global South, and that there is a need to connect the greater issues of economic development, gender inequalities, migration and the present refugee crisis, with the climate crisis discourse. The solutions being negotiated within the UNFCCC corridors must also keep in mind the multiple and intersecting oppressions women in their diversity face. Photo credit: IISD/Kiara Worth