The Democratic congresswoman and the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives will join Nicola Sturgeon And others at the gender equality event on Tuesday.
Ms. Pelosi attended the meeting along with 21 American politicians who went to the Glasgow meeting.
In her speech at the meeting on Tuesday, she said that this is the largest congressional delegation ever to attend a climate change conference.
Ms. Pelosi said that tackling climate change is an issue of “justice and equality”.
She said: “We have just arrived here after advancing the most ambitious and important climate and energy legislation in our history.”
Ms. Pelosi also introduced First minister Who will continue to chair the panel discussion on gender equality and climate change.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez shared details of her journey to Scotland on her Instagram, saying that this was her first trip with the “codel”, a parliamentary delegation.
She flew from the United States on a military plane and wrote: “Despite the madness and media frenzy, I was a waitress three years ago.
“So there are still moments in my life that make me feel that I’m actually in Congress. This is one of them.”
She posted a photo of a coronavirus test after arriving in the UK, and she said: “Shout out to the NHS, I hope we have you at home. We need #medicareforall.”
As the discussion at the meeting turned to gender equality, a giant puppet named Amal came to the “blue zone.”
This 350-meter-high puppet represents a little Syrian girl who has traveled 8,000 kilometers across Europe to raise awareness of the needs of refugee children.
It was attended at the beginning of the “Promoting Gender Equality in Climate Action” conference.
The event aims to showcase some of the best examples of gender equality in climate action, highlighting the disproportionate impact of climate change on women.
On Tuesday, as part of the summit’s gender day, the police chairman Alok Sharma Announcing that the British government will provide 165 million pounds of funding to communities and women’s groups to combat climate change.
British Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who presided over the flagship event of Gender Day, said: “The most severely affected by climate change are women, girls and those who are already the most marginalized.
“But they can also play a key role in tackling the climate crisis.
“The UK is committed to facing this dual challenge head-on, and is committed to providing new funding to strengthen the capacity of communities and women’s groups to enable local-led adaptation actions to build local, national and global resilience.”
