Climate Change
Fire Drill Friday: With Fonda and Field
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As I turned to look toward the Capitol lined by a wall of twenty police officers determined to stop the protestors. I thought to myself, ‘Don’t they know we are marching for them as well?”
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As I turned to look toward the Capitol lined by a wall of twenty police officers determined to stop the protestors. I thought to myself, ‘Don’t they know we are marching for them as well?”
When the line between fact and fiction becomes so blurred, people will behave in ways that defy logic.
Women are more likely to be affected by climate change than men, and up to 80% of those displaced by climate change are women.
The effects of climate-related events are shifting the environment, altering communities and changing lives; especially, and disproportionately, those of women.
While climate change is a global problem, African countries are likely to feel the effects most acutely and women are the most vulnerable of all, as a result of their dependence on the natural resources that are threatened by climate change.
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.
It’s time to shift billions of people onto modern energy sources in ways that help women and the planet. That’s the mantra. But the U.N.’s latest development plan lacks any legally binding mechanism to create flows of finance.
The scoring system measures 72 countries on such things as rates of anemia, access to agricultural land and women in policymaking positions. The United States has the lowest rates of anemia, but factors such as its failure to ratify CEDAW pushed it to 14th place.
The Environment and Gender Index (EGI) monitors women’s empowerment and gender equality in the environmental arena in 72 countries. This photo gallery shows how nine countries ranked.
These businesswomen don’t have environmental backgrounds, but they know it’s time to tailor their business practices to extreme global weather patterns. The fashion designer always paid attention to the weather but now she watches it with an eye to fabric prices.