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Empowering Women: Why Women Are Crucial to Solving Climate Change (5:21)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25aNiGPZBcg

• We all experience the world differently, and to solve climate change, we must consider everyone’s point of view.
• Empowering women is fundamental to building a better future in terms of both society and the environment.
• In low- and middle-income countries, land farmed by women produces 20 to 30% less crops than land farmed by men.
• This gender gap in agricultural productivity is because women struggle to access the same opportunities and resources, leaving them at a disadvantage.
• Gender inequality poses an indirect threat to food security and a threat to our planet.
• Raising women’s agricultural productivity means more food could be produced in existing farmland resulting in fewer emissions overall and 100 to 150 million fewer people living with hunger.
• Providing women with equal access to tools and information and making sure women can have land rights could reduce the gender gap in agricultural productivity.
• Simple solutions, such as sharing domestic responsibilities equally, can free up women’s time for productive activities and help close the gender gap in labour market participation.
• Education is one of the most powerful tools for avoiding emissions and curbing population growth.
• Providing family planning services enables women to choose if they want children, how many they want and when they want to have them, and it also benefits the environment.
• Family planning and education go hand in hand, because education gives women more opportunities, and family planning gives them the means to achieve their goals.
• Family planning and girls’ education would provide 16 to 29% of the reduction in emissions needed to avoid climate warming of over 2℃.
• Empowering women as decision makers and international leaders could help fight climate change.