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Sierra Clubs Global Population &

Environment ProgramWork with domestic & international partners to fosterWork with domestic & international partners to fosterhealthy communities by advancing sustainablehealthy communities by advancing sustainable

development solutions.development solutions.Access to Family Planning

Womens Rights

Resource Consumption

Youth Leadership

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Unitarian Universalism offers us a faith thatUnitarian Universalism offers us a faith that

challenges our energy usage and confronts uschallenges our energy usage and confronts us

with hunger and injustice around the world,with hunger and injustice around the world,without giving inadequate simplistic answers. Itwithout giving inadequate simplistic answers. It

offers the harder path of respect for all beingsoffers the harder path of respect for all beings

and for the Earth, and calls us to beand for the Earth, and calls us to be

accountable for our actions.accountable for our actions.

- UU minister Bob Klein- UU minister Bob Klein

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Women bear the brunt

of the impacts of climate change

Women are also essential to climate

change mitigation and adaptation

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Adaptation An anthropogenic intervention to

reduce the sources or enhance the

sinks of greenhouse gases.

An adjustment in natural or human

systems in response to actual or

expected climatic stimuli or their

effects, which moderates harm orexploits beneficial opportunities

How do we combat

climate change?

Mitigation

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Adaptation

Voluntary family planning combined with

womens empowerment and sustainable

development

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Mitigation

Voluntary family planning combined with

womens empowerment and sustainable

development

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Stabilization Wedges

Source: Socolow & Pacala, 2006.

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Slower populationgrowth could reduce

emissions

1.4 2.5 billion tons

carbon per year by 2050,

16-29% of the reduction

needed to stabilizeemissions.

About half of that

reduction would come

from current high-fertility

regions, achievablethrough expanded

access to family planning

services.

Source: B. ONeill et al, Global Demographic Trends and Future Carbon Emissions,

Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, Oct. 2010.

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What is PHE?What is PHE?

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GG

PPSS

DDOO

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Indias Self Employed Womens Association

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March for WomenMarch for Womenss

LivesLives

A ril 25, 2004April 25, 2004

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PowerShiftPowerShift

April 16, 2011April 16, 2011

Harnessing the energy ofthe youth climate

movement to incorporate

womens empowerment

and reproductive health

& rights

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I am only one, but I amone. I cannot do

everything, but I can do

something. And

because I cannot doeverything, I will not

refuse to do the

something that I can

do.

-Edward Everett HaleAmerican Author, Historian, &

Unitarian Clergyman