Posts Tagged with ‘Climate Change and Women’
Fortune, Environ Synergy Services
Like many countries, Nigeria contends with an extremely limited power supply. In order to carry on with their work and daily routines, Nigerians are using machinery that endangers themselves and the p...
Esther
Today’s African youth and future generations will inherit the climate system in whichever way governments decide to leave it. The older generation must take responsible action, and the younger g...
Emily
Ongoing migration is a reality. The goal is not to end migration, but to value, respect and integrate the people who leave their homes in search of resources and safety.
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Joshua, UNICEF Innovations
I believe we have yet to find a good answer to the question: what does open data means for the long-term social and economic development of poor and marginalized communities?
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serge, www.juniorartclub.org
As a young artist, I feel strongly about sharing a recent experience with others. I'm concerned with the water crisis in my country, Ghana.
''this idea that there should be no religious and no poli...
Fortune, Environ Synergy Services
Climate change has far reaching effects, but it particularly impacts women, especially those living in developing nations.
The serious changes in the global climatic conditions have significant con...
Joan Osa, Grace Foundation
Women have a high stake in climate change. They stand to be adversely affected by any strong shifts in weather patterns. Being more "vulnerable," they often bear the brunt of social upheavals. A...
Eddie, Global Voices Online
Climate change is affecting the way of life of Mongolian nomadic families. A new citizen media project is teaching Mongolians how to use internet tools to tell these stories.
A local project called...
Joao Luis
We cannot maintain the level of consumption of resources we have today with 6, 7 or 8 billion people. Sooner or later we will have to make the difficult choice between reducing the population or our s...
Belen, Global Voices
Even in the most extreme circumstances when survival is at stake, Bangladeshi women stand out for their capacity to unite and together overcome climate change’s effects on their lives.
A summar...
Sonam, Global Voices
What connection does finishing the food on your plate in New York, saving the water and the energy here, have to children and women in third world countries? Many.
Like a spider web our lives are a...
Belen, Global Voices
It is a popular saying in Latin America that women always get what they want. For 20 years, fearless women from the Kichwa community, an indigenous group in Ecuador, have been resisting against oil co...
Victor, Youth Coalition
Let the champions be champions
This year’s Youth Supplement to the State of the World Population bears the title At the Frontier, signalling urgency. Victor Bernhardtz, co-author of the report, giv...
Juliana, Global Voices Online
The Alzar las Voces (Raise the Voices) project in Nicaragua brings farmers in rural communities the possibility to speak out through video.
There are six organizations in Matagalpa Honduras who a...
Richard, UNFPA
While everyone’s talking about carbon credits and technological solutions to climate change, no one’s talking about the people who are going to be affected most: women.
One of the rewards of be...
Eddie, Global Voices Online
Activist Ursula Rakova has been leading the way to raise funds to help relocate the residents from the Cataret Islands in Papua New Guinea, where it is estimated that by the year 2015 all of the islan...
Mahnaz, UNFPA
Women are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Al Gore speaks about how to empower women and make a difference.
Climate change affects people all over the world, but in particular, it negativ...
Belen, Global Voices
A group of women in India have demonstrated that despite the existing gender inequity and their low economic status, they can become a powerful resource to tackle climate change and reduce the emissio...
Eddie, Global Voices Online
Is there a difference between the negative effects of climate change felt by African American and African women?
Invisible Women Melting is the title of a play written by a graduate student in th...
Fortune, Environ Synergy Services
With good planning, focus and commitment, our natural environment can survive the economic meltdown.
I have some questions for you: What is the relationship between the economic meltdown and enviro...
Robert, Population Institute
Imagine that the year is 2040 and climate-related stressors, including stronger storms, drought, and desertification have increased the demand on developed nations for aid and relief services.
Nort...
Gail, UNDP & ENERGIA consultant
We must press for more attention to women's roles in clean energy and 'green' economies.
For more than twelve years I have been working on planning and advocacy activities related to expanding acc...
Belen, Global Voices
Desertification is silently but rapidly spreading around the world and Latin America is not escaping its devastating effects.
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Alex
Sometimes you wonder. In December the world’s leaders will meet in Copenhagen to discuss urgent action in the next decade to protect the planet. Yet commentators are busy scaling down expectations. ...
Taiwo, APYIN
Women and young people have the skills to adapt to climate change and can be powerful actors.
There is no doubt that the consequences of climate change could be devastating. Climate change and glo...
Eddie, Global Voices Online
The disappearance of glaciers is causing a concern because the future water shortages will affect the availability of drinking water for a vulnerable migrant population.
350.org activists climb...
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