Why gender equity is a vital, overlooked strategy for halting global climate change
In short: Writer and environmentalist Katharine Wilkinson explains how the education and empowerment of women and girls serve as powerful, often overlooked tools for reducing heat-trapping emissions. Drawing from her work with Project Drawdown, she outlines three specific ways that achieving gender equity contributes to climate solutions.
Katharine Wilkinson argues that addressing climate change requires more than just technological shifts like renewable energy or sustainable diets. Through her research with Project Drawdown, she identifies the empowerment of women and girls as a critical component in the effort to draw down global emissions. She posits that the success of climate action is fundamentally linked to social progress, famously stating that "drawing down emissions depends on rising up."
The talk, originally presented at TEDWomen 2018, explores how systemic gender equity functions as a mechanism for environmental stability. By integrating social equity into climate strategy, Wilkinson highlights how humanity can leverage existing wisdom to address the forces pushing the planet to its limits.
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- Summary by Intellect · source: How empowering women and girls can help stop global warming | Katharine Wilkinson
- Also: How Empowering Women and Girls Can Help Stop Global Warming - MAHB
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