Empowering Women: The Climate Solution We Don’t Talk About

Climate One

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4.7 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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As the global population approaches eight billion, humans continue to test the number of bodies that can fit onto a planet of finite resources. Empowering women through access to education and family planning may be at the core of establishing a healthy population balance, not just for the planet’s sake, but for ours. So why aren’t we talking about it more? How big a role can gender equity play in reducing our global carbon footprint — and who gets to decide? Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Guests: Musimbi Kanyoro, Former President & CEO, Global Fund for Women; Chair of the Board, United World Colleges Ertharin Cousin, Visiting Scholar, Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment; Former Director, World Food Programme Corrine Sanchez, Executive Director, Tewa Women United Additional Interview: Evelyne Ajwang, Programme Manager MNCH/FP at Pathfinder International This program was recorded via video on May 21, 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.7	Can empowering women power up the climate movement?
0:21.5	Climate One conversations feature oil companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats,
0:26.7	the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate challenge.
0:30.2	I'm Greg Dalton.
0:42.5	We often talk about climate change and gender equality as separate issues, but the truth is that throughout the world, women's empowerment is directly linked to the climate fight
0:46.6	in many ways, from food security and economic independence.
0:50.0	I have never, in all of my work, met a woman who wanted to stand and align for food.
0:57.0	Everyone wants to feed their own children.
1:00.0	To education, reproductive freedom and power.
1:03.0	80% of farmers in Africa are women.
1:07.0	How are they going to be able to run their work if every year they have another child?
1:13.2	It impacts on their health, their ability to be able to work.
1:16.9	On today's program, we'll talk about some of the ways that empowering women and writing gender inequities
1:21.9	can make a difference in the battle against climate change.
1:25.0	Joining us from their homes are three guests on the front lines of
1:27.8	the social justice struggle. Erthrin Cousin is former executive director of the World Food Program
1:32.9	and currently a visiting scholar at the Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment.
1:37.8	Musimbi Kenyono is former president and CEO of the Global Fund for Women and presently chair of
1:43.0	the board at United World Colleges.
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