Women on climate change frontline make big impact on small grants

From Global development | The Guardian Fri Nov 28 2014, 11:18:49

From Guatemala to Indonesia, bold action by women in communities threatened by extreme weather shows there is an alternative to costly international schemes

In London, Paris and Washington, where leaders have made little progress in curtailing climate change, global warming may seem a merely theoretical problem - too far in the future, or too far away geographically, to matter.

But in remote tropical forest nations and islands, local leaders - especially women - are coming up with concrete, effective solutions to combat climate change in their communities. They do so not as a matter of politics, but as a matter of survival.

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