Wanjira Mathai on Sustainable Development and the Power of Women
Climate One
Climate One
4.7 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | AI is incredible. They can teach you how to fry an egg and even write a poem, pirate style. |
| 0:07.0 | But it knows nothing about your work. Slackbot is different. It doesn't just know the facts. |
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| 0:28.8 | to learn more. This is Climate 1. I'm Greg Dalton. People in developing countries did very little to cause the |
| 0:36.3 | extreme heat and other climate impacts |
| 0:38.5 | evident this summer. |
| 0:39.5 | We cannot talk about the ability to bounce back from the worst of climate if we do not deal |
| 0:46.4 | with the ability for communities to lift themselves from poverty, because poverty is the |
| 0:53.6 | greatest underlying driver of vulnerability. |
| 0:57.7 | And these hard hit and vulnerable communities, women are at the forefront of needed change. |
| 1:03.1 | The entire livelihood and systems that we depend on, our entire life support systems, are built on a healthy climate and a healthy |
| 1:13.7 | environment, and that's at stake. And women are at the heart of this transformation. |
| 1:20.0 | Wangira Mithai on Sustainable Development and the Power of Women up next on Climate One. |
| 1:27.4 | Africa is responsible for a tiny portion of global greenhouse gas emissions. Up next on Climate One. |
| 1:37.1 | Africa is responsible for a tiny portion of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet its people are already suffering some of the world's most devastating climate impacts. |
| 1:45.7 | And as the global north looks to reduce its addiction to fossil fuels, the minerals required to do so increasingly depend on exploiting natural resources in the global south, exacerbating a cycle of extraction, environmental devastation, |
| 1:51.8 | dislocation, and political and social instability. Wangira Mathai is regional director for Africa |
| 1:58.3 | and vice president at the World Resources Institute, |
| 2:01.3 | and the daughter of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Mathai, |
| 2:04.6 | who empowered more than 4,000 women's groups to protect and restore their local forests, |
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