Join moderator Rachel Isaacs, program coordinator in the MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy and MS in Geographic Information Systems programs, for a panel discussion on the disproportionate impacts from climate change on women and girls.
Panelists Lorena Aguilar, Christina Kwauk, and Nevada Winrow will discuss data garnered from the United Nations that estimates that women and children are 14 times more likely than men to die when extreme weather disasters strike, and because they make up the majority of the world’s poor, women and girls make up 4 out of every 5 people displaced by the impacts of climate change. The panel will share ways that women are effecting climate action and change and offer solutions to empower women and girls through education.