Family Planning and Education

• This article highlights the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that could be achieved by educating women and girls and meeting women's expressed needs and desires for access to voluntary, high-quality family planning.

Positives

• This brief article informs students that many girls and women do not have access to education or to family planning/contraception and how this relates to the climate crisis.
• It focuses on meeting the needs and wants identified by women and girls, supporting gender equity, and ensuring human rights.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with the terms: mortality, life expectancy, and empowerment.
  

Differentiation

• Teachers could lead a discussion on why some people find family planning and stabilizing the global population to be controversial topics.
• Other resources on this topic include this video on how empowering women and girls can help stop global warming and this video on how empowering women is an important solution for solving climate change.
  

Mainstreaming women and girls into climate policies and actions has good benefits for the planet. Education is key, and this resource will equip students on the need to share climate education with girls, promote equality, and reduce our collective carbon footprint. The resource is recommended for teaching.