Glasgow, UK - November 9 was Gender Day at the COP26 climate summit and a delegation from the US House of Representatives including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Squad member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took the stage.

The day was structured around recognizing the disproportionate effects that climate change has on women – especially women of color – who make up 80% of those displaced by the effects of climate change around the world.

Despite all this, women tend to have far less time on the mic at UN climate conferences than men do.

Tuesday's program was also about celebrating the hard-working women leaders who are active in politics and in climate justice activism – such as AOC.

The New York representative focused on the "missing and murdered" women activists on the frontlines of climate activism.

Those "women often times disappeared near fossil fuel extraction sites, and so it's very important for us to very confidently identify where the climate crisis and fossil fuel extraction intersect with gender violence and sexual assault."

It was off-the-scales ironic, then, that not long before AOC addressed the audience on a day specifically set up to highlight violence against women, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted out an anime video of himself killing a character with her face.

The hard work in week two of the COP26 climate summit is in full swing, led by the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry. However, agreements still leave loopholes gaping wide open for the biggest polluters to opt out of updating their emissions plans.

Kerry has been working hard to try and get agreements on the key issues at COP26, and said he is focused on working with the "reality" of negotiations, but predicted that the US will be coal free by 2030. The cheaper options are natural gas and renewable projects, so he sees market pressure pushing coal out of energy generation.

Kerry's been up late, reportedly hitting the hay only around 3 AM in order to keep the pressure on negotiations on climate action.

Gender Day shows that progress has been made in getting women a seat at the climate action table, but there is still plenty of room for improvement, and despite hopeful messages from John Kerry, there is still too much promise and not enough action to curb global emissions.