Posts Tagged ‘climate change’

Climate change has far reaching effects, but it particularly impacts women, especially those living in developing nations.

It is crucial that women’s voices are included in the dialogue on climate change- in multiple ways. And it is equally important that women in low-income countries are made part of the global discourse.

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.

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.

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.

Firstly, we simply cannot exclude such a large group of people, if we are serious in our ambitions to turn the tide. Not tapping into the resource of young people is foolish. Secondly, young people will always be the best experts on youth.

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.

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 islands will be completely submerged attributed to climate change.