Will Climate Change Make Life Harder for Girls?
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A new study suggests that climate change will make life even more arduous for adolescent girls in the developing world.
The report from the nonprofit Plan U.K., as well as the U.K. Department for International Development, focuses exclusively on the developing world’s 500 million adolescent girls. They are the ones, the authors note, who walk hours to find water and increasingly rare firewood, and are disproportionately killed or displaced in natural disasters.
It recommends increasing access to high-quality education as a means toward helping girls address gender discrimination as well as finding paid work and building more resilient families. That, in turn, the report argues, will help reduce girls’ vulnerability to climate change-related weather disasters.
Source: SciAm
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Relates to the topic of how investing in girls could significantly help end poverty.
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