The need for women’s leadership is ever more pressing when it comes to the climate crisis. Here’s why they should step up—and how you can help:
, an eight-day political forum by the United Nations, culminating Friday. One of the forum’s primary goals is to coordinate urgent climate change action.
While declarations and calls to action aren’t new for the United Nations, not many of them are as specific and blunt in demanding dramatic shifts in power structures like this one, which calls for female representation in the climate justice movement to “grow in number and build power.
From a human rights’ perspective, women represent half of the world’s population and deserve to be represented equally at any table where decisions are made, as their perspectives and lived and experiences need to be taken into consideration. Gender blindness doesn’t only undermine women, but the effectiveness of policies overall, includingStrategically, it’s profoundly misguided to think that we can solve the world’s most pressing problems without engaging half of its human resources.
There’s more: Women aren’t only half of the world’s brain trust—when it comes to policy-making, they have often proven to be “the better half,” as multiple studies indicate female policy-makers are better at
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