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Are Women the Climate Change Solution We’re Looking for? (5:20)

Women are indispensable for any restoration project to be complete, sustainable and overall successful.
Rural women around the globe are at the forefront of climate change, but women’s voices are not always welcome in this conversation.
Climate change is not gender neutral; it does not affect all of us in the same way.
Marginalised groups, such as rural women from countries in the Global South, have the fewest opportunities to protect themselves against extreme weather events.
80% of people displaced by climate change are women.
Women are remarkable sources to mobilise communities when it most matters.
Gender inequality means we are losing precious time, knowledge and energy to adapt to climate change.
Rural women keep passing on their wisdom; if we choose to listen to them, we help ourselves prepare for a changing climate.