Several women, who served on the United Nation's environmental task forces — specifically those in charge of spearheading climate change negotiations — say they were the victims of sexual harassment that went on for years, even at the highest levels of the U.N.'s environmental operation.
Speaking to Climate Change News on the condition of anonymity, several women say that while working to help the U.N. address climate change, they became subject to all sorts of untoward behavior from the U.N.'s climate scientists and senior officials — and it became so bad that leaders of current climate change talks had to draw up "zero tolerance policies" so that women would be protected when they came forward with complaints.-- More...