How women collaborated to bring a ‘Charter for Change’ to Parliament House “We women of the Women’s Climate Congress and others despair that Earth is hurtling towards catastrophic climate change that humanity is failing to mitigate. We grieve the unfolding and potentially irreversible impacts on all current and future life unless immediate, united and effective action is taken.” – Opening…
How Climate Change Is Affecting Pregnancy Pregnant people and those thinking about having kids are being hit hard by the recent rise in climate disasters. Here’s why their concerns are valid and what experts suggest. By Bridget Shirvell Michelle Uberuaga, a mom in Montana, gave birth to her third child in 2020, but throughout her pregnancy she worried about a big…
Women Are Furious, Frightened And Voting By Joan Michelson The 2022 midterm election, now only 73 days away, is shaping up to be driven by women voters, who have only had that right for 102 years today, when that right was ratified in the 19th Amendment on August 26, 1920. TargetSmart reported surges of new voter registrations by women across the country, far…
Gender Equity is Key to Environmental Sustainability By Jamie L. Gloor, Eugenia Bajet Mestre, Corinne Post, and Winfried Ruigrok As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent, organizations around the world have begun investing in a wide array of environmental sustainability initiatives. Some of these efforts target technological solutions, while others prioritize behavioral or economic changes, but what the vast majority have in common is a…
Five Young Women on the Forefront of Climate Action Across Europe and Central Asia Women and girls are powerful leaders and change-makers for climate adaptation and mitigation and must be included in the design and implementation of climate action. Without their leadership, knowledge and participation in climate responses today, it is unlikely that solutions for a sustainable planet and gender-equal…
A women’s group led by Amy Thior (dressed in yellow) plant mangrove trees for climate adaptation on … [+] INA MAKOSI FOR ACTIONAID U.K. Women and girls are bearing the brunt of brutal climate impacts in the developing world, they also hold the key to taking decisive action against climate change and building resilience against its effects. “We’ve seen that in all…
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BY ROSE MINUTAGLIO Just before taking a family trip to Iran seven years ago, Sophia Kianni’s middle school teacher stunned her with a statistic: By 2030, temperatures in the world’s warmest regions are expected to increase by more than twice the global average. When Kianni arrived in Tehran—where her aunts, uncles, and grandma all live—she got an even bigger surprise: Her family had…
By Gavin Haines Mangrove forests have disappeared at an alarming rate in Cambodia, where female conservationist climate-conscious women are trying to turn the tide. When storms whip up the waves, sending white horses charging to the shore, mangrove forests are often the first line of defence for coastal communities in the tropics. And with the climate crisis making the weather…
