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A study of 91 countries found that women’s political status (defined as having a longer history of women’s suffrage and higher representation in parliament) had as strong a predictive relationship with lower carbon emissions as factors like a country’s level of urbanization had with predicting higher levels of carbon emissions.

——Women’s status and carbon dioxide emissions: A quantitative cross-national analysis, Journal Social Science Research, 2012

Source, 2012