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U.S. withdraws from Paris Accord, and the impact on women
Yesterday, U.S. government officials announced their decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, an agreement endorsed by almost all countries in the world. This agreement expresses a unified commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change. A key question we are asking at WEA: What will this mean for women? It’s no…
Read MoreWEA and WISE’s Clean Cookstoves Training gets national coverage in Nigeria!
This past April, WEA and WISE (Women’s Initiative for Sustainable Environment) kicked off a series of two training intensives as part of our joint WISE Women’s Clean Cookstoves Training in Kaduna, Nigeria. These trainings aimed not only to provide women in Nigeria with access to life-saving clean cookstoves, but also to equip them with the…
Read MoreEmpower Women and Save the Planet
At the core of WEA’s work is our conviction that to truly and holistically address the issues women face and the issues our environment faces, we must work from an intersectional foundation. This is why we develop trainings for women in environmentally threatened regions around the world to regenerate water, food, and clean energy for their…
Read MoreWISE Women’s Clean Cookstove Training Retreat Gaining National Attention
The WISE Women’s Clean Cookstove Project, partnership between WEA and Women’s Initiative for Sustainable Environment (WISE) in Kaduna, Nigeria, just completed its first of two week-long training retreats and The Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves featured the project its newsletter this month! This [training] will help empower fellow women leaders in their communities, and break the structural…
Read More63 million people in rural India are living without access to clean water.
Here, the day after World Water Day, comes a report on the state of world’s water from Water Aid. In its’ summary of the report, The Hindustan Times underlines how the water strain in India is especially damaging to country’s rural communities. This report is a reminder that water conservation efforts and the efforts of those working…
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