What do gender inequality, climate change, disinformation and innovation have in common? In this episode of “Have we got news for you!”, we are joined by Dr. Aubrey Paris, Gender, Climate and Innovation Policy Advisor in the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues of the U.S. Department of State. She offers unique inside on the nexus between gender and climate and the important role of women in finding active and innovative solutions within communities around the world. What’s more, she introduces us to the ‘Innovation Station’ initiative, an effort to identify women and girls around the world that find active solutions to different climate related challenges, including disinformation, and to help them reach new audiences and amplify their voices and ideas, so that other communities around the globe can learn from their work.
Participants:
Dr. Aubrey Paris, Gender, Climate and Innovation Policy Advisor, Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues (S/GWI), U.S. Department of State
Moderators:
Nikos Panagiotou, Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Media Communications of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & President of DCN Global
Betty Tsakarestou, Associate Professor and Head of ADandPRLAB at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece
Vasilis Tsoulis, Co-founder and CEO of YET NGO
Outstanding quotes:
“In our office, we think about how the climate crisis disproportionately impacts women and girls around the world in various ways, but we also think of how important it is to empower women and girls as leaders and innovators in our fight to combat the climate crisis. We can’t assume that they will have the resources and the tools, the mentorship, the education that they'll need to become those leaders, if we don't provide these tools for them with equity and equality.” – Aubrey Paris
“It's critically important that we empower women and girls to develop solutions to problems that affect their whole communities. It is not only the right thing to do, it is the strategic thing to do! What happens if a woman or a girl develops a solution to water scarcity or to flooding? She is not only developing this solution for women and girls. It's benefiting her entire community. And I think it’s important to remember that.” – Aubrey Paris