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Zineb,

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just explain to me why climate change
and climate action should have a

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disproportionate effect on women.

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So climate change to start with...

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we now have evidence that women will
be disproportionately impacted by

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climate change because they
tend to be more vulnerable,

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so they're less equipped to deal with
climate change. I can give you...

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there are three numbers that
tell the story quite well.

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Number one is 80% of the
people that were displaced by

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climate disasters in 2015 were women.

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Second number - 12
million girls are at risk

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of school dropouts because
of climate disaster,

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and that is each year, so 12 million
girls each year. Why is that?

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Because when these
climate disasters happen,

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we realize that families
actually favor boys to

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stay at school rather than their girls.

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And then the third number
is 60% of sub-Saharan women

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work in agriculture,

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and we know how much agriculture is
going to be disrupted with the droughts,

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the floods, et cetera. So we
know that the productivity,

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but also the income of these
women is highly at risk.

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So actually climate change
will have a higher burden

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on women when it comes to
their health, their education,

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their income level,

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even their own survival is more at risk.
You've spoken about climate change

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disproportionately affecting women,
but also climate action as well.

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Through your work,

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you've found that it sets back
gender equity by 15 to 20 years.

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Tell me more about that.
This is counterintuitive, right?

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Because climate action is all the efforts
we're making to build a better planet

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for everyone.

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So it is counterintuitive to say that
this has a negative impact on women.

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So let me explain. Obviously
women as well as men,

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even more than men in some aspects,

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will benefit from living in a more
sustainable planet. Their education,

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their health, their
livelihoods will improve.

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But what our research has found out
is that women might also be at risk

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of missing out on the green economy's
massive investments and job opportunities,

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or at least some of
them. Jobs, for example:

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we know that the green economy will
be creating 65 million green jobs

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by 2030. These jobs, the highest
paid, the more stable ones,

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require what we call STEM education.
That's science, technology, engineering,

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mathematics.

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And women today only represent
35% of STEM students globally. So

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they are clearly at risk of missing out
on these opportunities. Second example,

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companies in highly emitting sectors
such as energy, building materials,

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industrial goods, will be
spending as much as $500 billion

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by 2030 to upskill their employees,

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meaning to get them green skills.

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And the problem is these
industries are male dominated,

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historically male dominated.

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So mechanically women are less likely
to benefit from this retraining,

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again, widening the skill gap between
men and women. And then entrepreneurship.

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We know that female entrepreneurs
get less access to funding than male

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entrepreneurs.

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This is even more true when
it comes to green tech.

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So there are already a
few clues to the fact that

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if we do not do it right,

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climate action could also be widening
the gap between men and women.

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And this is of course not the intention.

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So what are the solutions?
Can we have it all?

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Can we have sustainability
and gender equality?

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Yes, we do. Actually,

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you could even argue that you
cannot do one without the other.

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Both are extremely interlinked.
So the solutions, number one,

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is we need to tackle what we
discussed in our first question,

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meaning we need to have
enough investments,

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enough projects that support
women in better mitigating

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the impact of climate change on them.
And that means supporting women,

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in knowledge, in new regenerative
agricultural techniques,

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but also helping them
to get better financing,

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maybe even reorient their jobs to be in

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jobs that are, say, less impacted
by climate change, for example.

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And this is what a lot of the
conversations in COP today are about

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because today is gender day, obviously.

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And then there is the second part
that we don't talk about much,

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but that is starting,

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which is bringing intentionality to

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the other projects,

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the other green projects that are
not specifically targeting women,

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because we think that because we're
doing projects for men and women,

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then both will benefit equally.

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But history has shown us
that this doesn't happen.

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So we need to intentionally
embed what we call a gender lens

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in all of these projects to make sure
that women will benefit as well as

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men. And actually,

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this is a win-win because
when women are involved in

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climate action, this has a positive
ripple effect on the planet.

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There are multiple evidence on the
fact that when women are in negotiation

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tables or that are, for
example, mayors of big cities,

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then climate action is
even more effective.

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Zineb, thank you so much.

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My pleasure.