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Sierra Club’s Global Population &
Environment ProgramWork with domestic & international partners to foster Work with domestic & international partners to foster
healthy communities by advancing sustainablehealthy communities by advancing sustainable
development solutions.development solutions. Access to Family Planning
Women’s Rights
Resource Consumption
Youth Leadership
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““Unitarian Universalism offers us a faith thatUnitarian Universalism offers us a faith that
challenges our energy usage and confronts uschallenges our energy usage and confronts us
with hunger and injustice around the world,with hunger and injustice around the world,without giving inadequate simplistic answers. Itwithout giving inadequate simplistic answers. It
offers the harder path of respect for all beingsoffers the harder path of respect for all beings
and for the Earth, and calls us to beand for the Earth, and calls us to be
accountable for our actions.accountable for our actions.””
- UU minister Bob Klein- UU minister Bob Klein
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Women bear the brunt
of the impacts of climate change
Women are also essential to climate
change mitigation and adaptation
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Adaptation “An anthropogenic intervention to
reduce the sources or enhance the
sinks of greenhouse gases.”
“An adjustment in natural or human
systems in response to actual or
expected climatic stimuli or their
effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities”
How do we combat
climate change?
Mitigation
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Adaptation
Voluntary family planning combined with
women’s empowerment and sustainable
development
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Mitigation
Voluntary family planning combined with
women’s empowerment and sustainable
development
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Stabilization Wedges
Source: Socolow & Pacala, 2006.
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Slower populationgrowth could reduce
emissions
1.4 – 2.5 billion tons
carbon per year by 2050,
16-29% of the reduction
needed to stabilizeemissions.
About half of that
reduction would come
from current high-fertility
regions, achievablethrough expanded
access to family planning
services.
Source: B. O’Neill et al, “Global Demographic Trends and Future Carbon Emissions,”
Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, Oct. 2010.
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What is PHE?What is PHE?
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GG
PPSS
DDOO
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India’s Self Employed Women’s Association
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March for WomenMarch for Women’’ss
LivesLives
A ril 25, 2004April 25, 2004
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PowerShiftPowerShift
April 16, 2011April 16, 2011
Harnessing the energy of the youth climate
movement to incorporate
women’s empowerment
and reproductive health
& rights
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“I am only one, but I amone. I cannot do
everything, but I can do
something. And
because I cannot doeverything, I will not
refuse to do the
something that I can
do.”
-Edward Everett Hale American Author, Historian, &
Unitarian Clergyman