Episode 8 - Christina Kwauk
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No one can escape the effects of climate change, but girls and women in many countries will experience especially harsh consequences due to existing gender-based inequities. Today’s episode features Christina Kwauk, an expert on girls’ education and education for climate action. Christina is a co-editor (with Radhika Iyengar) of Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action: Toward an SDG 4.7 Roadmap for Systems Change (forthcoming 2021) and co-author (with Gene Sperling and Rebecca Winthrop) of What Works in Girls’ Education: Evidence for the World’s Best Investment. She is also Research Director at Unbounded Associates, a Future Rising Visiting Scholar at Girl Rising, and a non-resident fellow in the Center for Universal Education at Brookings. Additional Resources Three Platforms for Girls' Education in Climate Strategies A New Green Learning Agenda: Approaches to Quality Education for Climate Action Education International: New research: World fails in climate education despite urgent need to act.
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