Gina McCarthy official portrait: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Wikimedia Commons (public domain). Historical portrait, not a COP31 photograph. Photo source ↗ · Licence ↗
01Women in climate leadership · COP31
At COP31, women leading U.S. climate action put delivery on the agenda.
Gina McCarthy, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and Jennifer Siebel Newsom are scheduled to speak today at an Antalya discussion organised by the U.S. Climate Alliance and America Is All In. McCarthy, a former U.S. EPA administrator and now chair of America Is All In, is part of a delegation of more than 120 state and local leaders. The session is an opportunity to move past broad pledges and examine what cities and states can actually procure, finance and operate: cleaner power, resilient infrastructure and lower-emission transport. The organisers point to cooperation across government and business, but a conference appearance is not itself a new climate project or a measured reduction in emissions. The useful questions are which projects receive capital, how communities benefit and whether results are publicly tracked. This report describes the planned session and does not claim outcomes before it takes place. The photograph is McCarthy's real official portrait from her earlier EPA service, not a photograph taken at COP31.
