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Women Leading Climate Action

Provided by: Project Drawdown

Articles/Websites Grades 9-12, ap-college

Synopsis

This collaboration between Project Drawdown and the Clean Cooking Alliance features a discussion and accompanying article about the importance of centering women and girls in climate solutions.
Students will hear from inspiring young panelists as they talk about subsistence agriculture, girls' education, using food waste as fuel, the intersection between poverty, climate change, and child marriage, and other topics relating to women and climate change.

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Subjects: Civics, Geography

Authors: Project Drawdown, Carissa Patrone Maikuri

Region: Africa, Asia, Global

Languages: English

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Teaching Materials

Positives

This discussion features young activists who will inspire students and make them hopeful for the future.
In watching this discussion and reading the connected article, students will learn about the connections between women and climate change solutions.

Prerequisites

Students should understand that there are inequalities faced by women and other marginalized groups.
You may want to define climate financing for students and select some of the linked videos and articles to have students explore further.

Differentiation & Implementation

To understand increased gender equality as a climate solution, students can check out the video How Empowering Women and Girls Can Help Stop Global Warming. Students can also read Project Drawdown's article Family Planning and Education and check out other solutions from their Table of Solutions.
Students can pair this resource with a lesson about the UN Sustainable Development Goals, as they are mentioned several times in the discussion. Students can draw parallels between this discussion, the solutions that achieve co-benefits mentioned in the discussion, and SDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, and 13. Teachers can use the UN Sustainable Development Goals mini-unit to help make the connections.
Teachers can use the section on the importance of intersectionality to spark a discussion about how marginalized groups of women have historically been left out of movements.
Using the final message of the article as a call to action, students can brainstorm small habits they and others can implement to make the world a better place. Students can create media of their choice to display these small habits to others.

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About the Partner Provider

Project Drawdown

Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “drawdown”—the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Cities, universities, corporations, philanthropies, policymakers, communities, educators, activists, and more turn to Project Drawdown as they look to advance effective climate action. Project Drawdown resources for educators include the database of Drawdown Solutions, educational video series Climate Solutions 101, the Drawdown Stories initiative, and more.