
Empower women to avert climate crisis
While climate change touches us all, its impacts -- from heat waves and droughts to hurricanes and floods -- disproportionately affect those least responsible for causing it. The elderly, the very young and other marginalized communities are the most at risk. In addition, climate-related disasters affect women disproportionately, throwing into sharp relief the existing societal inequalities between men and women.
Recently a powerful phenomenon has swept the globe. Women are speaking up and rising to leadership positions across business, government and civil society, to deliver urgent action to avert the looming climate crisis.
It was thanks to the tenacity of an exceptional group of women led by Christiana Figueres, former head of the U.N.… Seguir leyendo »