Tuesday, 21 January 2020

How Empowering Women and Girls Can Help Stop Global Warming


In this TED talk by Katharine Wilkinson from Project Drawdown, Wilkinson makes the link between creating gender equity and changing global warming.  Project Drawdown has looked for the best ways to draw down heat-trapping, climate changing emissions. Wilkinson mentions the obvious ones such as renewable energy, sustainable diets as well as the less obvious ones such as the education and empowerment of women.  She outlines three key areas in which we could secure the rights of women and girls, shore up resilience and divert emissions as well, all at the same time.

These three areas are agriculture, education and family planning.  These are connections you may not have thought of before but this is part of the new story that is emerging.
Check it out:

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