Carbon Brief: COP 30 delegate charts
A couple of quick graphics for our COP30 delegate analysis
I think this second chart is a bit of an odd one, and I'm not sure it communicates clearly outside the context of the article. To clarify: what's being shown is the average of the gender split across the national delegations. In a simple situation where country A sends a delegation with 75% men and 25% women, and country B has 25% men and 75% women, we'd have a situation where the average gender split is 50/50. This method doesn't take into account the size of the delegations. If country A has only 4 people and country B has 400, then the conference as a whole will have 103 women and 301 men, a long way from the 50/50 that the published chart would show. Ignoring delegations and just calculating the gender split on total numbers of delegates paints a somewhat less rosy picture, as per this draft version of the chart...
