Invest in Girls and Women to Tackle Climate Change and Conserve the Environment – Women Deliver

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Invest in Girls and Women to Tackle Climate Change and Conserve the Environment

(Updated in 2020)

Sources:

  • An estimated 4 million people die prematurely each year from household air pollution (WHO, 2018)
  • Approximately 3 billion people still use polluting fuels like wood, coal, and charcoal (The World Bank, 2015) 
  • More than 143 million people could be displaced by 2050 due to the impacts of climate change (The World Bank, 2018) 
  • The economic, health, and environmental cost of inefficient cooking is a staggering $123 billion per year (ESMAP, 2015) 
  • Up to 150 million fewer people would go hungry if women farmers had the same access to resources as men (United Nations) 

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