For Green Building Week: How Women Can Fight Climate Change, Starting at Home
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Women are more likely to be affected by climate change than men, and up to 80% of those displaced by climate change are women.
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Women are more likely to be affected by climate change than men, and up to 80% of those displaced by climate change are women.
Women, so often in the front lines of climate change impact, are playing a leading role in finding urban solutions.
The effects of climate-related events are shifting the environment, altering communities and changing lives; especially, and disproportionately, those of women.
As primary providers of food and fuel, women are most likely to notice the signs of climate change and to be the first to feel its effects.