As the pandemic has brought our world’s climate and health crises into sharp relief, the time is ripe to include women’s reproductive rights as part of our climate solutions toolbox.
Author: Kristen P. Patterson
Kristen P. Patterson (she/her) is an innovative leader focused on finding equitable solutions to global challenges that improve people’s lives. As the director of Drawdown Lift, Kristen leads efforts to advance climate solutions that improve human well-being and alleviate poverty in emerging economies in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Kristen earned an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a MS in conservation biology and sustainable development from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
How Family Planning Could Help Slow Climate Change
In the mid-1990s, I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a village in Niger, a West African country consistently ranked as one of the poorest in the world. I lived in a mud […]