How empowering women and girls can help stop global warming | Katharine Wilkinson

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🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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If we really want to address climate change, we need to make gender equity a reality, says writer and environmentalist Katharine Wilkinson. As part of Project Drawdown, Wilkinson has helped scour humanity's wisdom for solutions to draw down heat-trapping, climate-changing emissions: obvious things like renewable energy and sustainable diets and not so obvious ones, like the education and empowerment of women. In this informative, bold talk, she shares three key ways that equity for women and girls can help stop global warming. "Drawing down emissions depends on rising up," Wilkinson says.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features writer and environmentalist Catherine Wilkinson, recorded live at TED Women 2018.
0:10.0	There are two powerful phenomena unfolding on Earth, the rise of global warming and the rise of women and girls.
0:20.8	The link between them is often overlooked,
0:24.5	but gender equity is a key answer to our planetary challenge.
0:29.9	Let me explain.
0:32.3	For the last few years, I have been working on an effort called Project Drawdown.
0:37.7	Our team has scoured humanity's wisdom for solutions to draw down
0:43.3	heat-trapping, climate-changing emissions in the atmosphere.
0:48.6	Not someday, maybe, if we're lucky, solutions.
0:52.9	The 80 best practices and technologies already in hand.
0:58.5	Clean, renewable energy, including solar and wind. Green buildings, both new and retrofitted.
1:09.1	Efficient transportation from Brazil to China.
1:13.4	Thriving ecosystems through protection and restoration.
1:19.2	Reducing waste and reclaiming its value.
1:23.6	Growing food in good ways that regenerates soil,
1:28.8	shifting diets to less meat, more plants,
1:33.9	and equity for women and girls.
1:38.3	Gender and climate are inextricably linked.
1:42.6	Drawing down emissions depends on rising up.
1:48.7	First, a bit of context.
1:51.1	We are in a situation of urgency, severity, and scope
1:55.7	never before faced by humankind.
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