Improving Buildings and Lives Across Latin America – with Women as Leaders
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While our region represents a dazzling diversity of cultures, climate and innovation, it also faces huge environmental, social and economic challenges.
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While our region represents a dazzling diversity of cultures, climate and innovation, it also faces huge environmental, social and economic challenges.
Three weeks ago, 22 cities and four regions spanning six continents joined with 12 leading businesses to make a groundbreaking commitment on climate action for buildings, a commitment that will improve the lives of millions.
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.