Women’s experiences, struggles, and solutions make up perhaps the most vital, yet largely untold story of the climate crisis.
Twenty million of the twenty-six million people estimated to have been displaced by climate change as of 2010 are women. The bottom line is that the poor are most heavily impacted by climate change, and the vast majority of people living on less than a dollar a day are women.
Studies show that women are more susceptible then men to the harmful effects of toxic pollution from fossil fuels and industrial processes. As mothers and life-givers, climate change effects women in deeply personal ways, such as the dangerous health effects of carbon emissions on pregnant women and developing babies.