Girl-led Action on Climate Change

Climate change remains the most significant global threat to human life. And it is women and girls who currently suffer the worst impacts. More extreme and less predictable weather, growing food insecurity, increasing water insecurity, and unstable living conditions all combine with gender inequality to leave women more vulnerable. Despite this their views, interests and experiences are not fully or equally represented, leading to policies and programmes that are woefully inadequate. Our Girl-led Action on Climate Change programme seeks to change this. In partnership with Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting associations in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, we are working to ensure that girls, young women, and their families, are more resilient to climate change and that we see a gender transformative approach to climate change policy and practice, at all levels.

Through the curriculum, girls and young women will learn about how to adapt to and mitigate climate change through practical interactive activities. They will also learn about its gender dimension and apply what they've learnt to their own lives, and their families' lives, contributing to greater community resilience to climate change.

Girls and young women will gain the knowledge and skills needed to put pressure on their governments - and international institutions - to increase their commitments to and actions towards tackling climate change in a gender sensitive way. At key global events such as the UNFCC Conference of the Parties (COP) and the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), girls and young women will also have the opportunity to share their lived experiences of climate change and influence climate action internationally.