Understanding the gender-climate nexus: how does disinformation affect other topics

Participants:Dr. Aubrey Paris, Gender, Climate and Innovation Policy Advisor, Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues (S/GWI), U.S. Department of StateModerators:Nikos Panagiotou, Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Media Communications of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & President of DCN GlobalBetty Tsakarestou, Associate Professor and Head of ADandPRLAB at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, GreeceVasilis 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