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

There are two powerful phenomena unfolding on earth: the rise of global warming

and the rise of women and girls. The link between them is often overlooked,

but gender equity is a key answer to our planetary challenge. Let me explain.

For the last few years, I have been working on an effort called "Project Drawdown."

Our team has scoured humanity's wisdom for solutions to draw down heat-trapping, climate-changing emissions

in the atmosphere -- not "someday, maybe, if we're lucky" solutions,

the 80 best practices and technologies already in hand:

clean, renewable energy, including solar and wind; green buildings, both new and retrofitted;

efficient transportation from Brazil to China; thriving ecosystems through protection and restoration;

reducing waste and reclaiming its value; growing food in good ways that regenerates soil;

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