Women take action in the face of climate change 26 November 2012
| News story A new IUCN publication outlining action plans for
women to help them adapt to climate change and minimize its
impact has been launched today at the 18th Conference of the
Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change in Doha, Qatar. A water taxi network owned and operated
by women on the Nile that reduces emissions and provides fast,
reliable public transport in a gridlocked Cairo transport
system; a recycling project that empowers women as green
entrepreneurs in Kathmandu; women-environmental whistleblowers
on the coast of Liberia that assist the government in the
collection of meteorological data to forecast the weather,
acting as an early-warning system for storms and reporting
environmental offences; a carbon-footprint programme run by
community women and poetry singers in temples in Jordan and
Nepal that communicate climate change messages. These are just a
few innovative examples included in the book. Th