Synapse Special Issue: Celebrating International Women's Day
25 Badass Women Shaking Up the Climate Movement in 2020
In honor of International Women’s Day: here are the top 25 individuals on GreenBiz’s second "Badass Women" list, featuring women who have inspired action in their own unique ways — in boardrooms, through employee networks and political circles, and on farms and factory floors.
Greta Thunberg: What Does the Teenage Climate Activist Want?
Greta, the 2019 Time Magazine ‘Person of the Year,’ for being one of the leading voices of climate change activism, wants international political and business leaders to take climate change more seriously. At the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, she urged banks and firms to divest from fossil fuels and "instead… invest their money in existing sustainable technologies, research and in restoring nature.”
Watch: How Empowering Women and Girls Can Help Stop Global Warming, a TED Talk by Katharine Wilkinson
If we really want to address climate change, we need to make gender equity a reality, says writer and environmentalist Katharine Wilkinson. As part of Project Drawdown, Wilkinson has helped scour humanity's wisdom for solutions to draw down heat-trapping, climate-changing emissions: obvious things like renewable energy and sustainable diets and not so obvious ones, like the education and empowerment of women. In this informative, bold talk, she shares three key ways that equity for women and girls can help stop global warming. "Drawing down emissions depends on rising up," Wilkinson says.
