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• Cover
• About Friends of the Earth
• About C40 Cities
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 Christiana Figueres: The power of stubborn optimism
• 2 Patricia Espinosa: Empowering women to power up the Paris Climate Change Agreement
• 3 Susan Buckingham: The hissing of summer lawns: cities, gender and climate change
• 4 Zandile Gumede: What’s happening in Durban: from ‘tree-preneurs’ to trendsetters
• 5 Diane Elson: Women’s empowerment and environmental sustainability in the context of international UN agreements
• 6 Alexandra Palt: Walking the talk: empowering tomorrow’s women leaders
• 7 Lola Young: How holistic thinking benefits people and the planet
• 8 Nathalie Holvoet and Liesbeth Inberg: How gender-sensitive are National Adaptation Programmes of Action? Selected findings from a desk review of thirty-one sub-Saharan African countries
• 9 Atti Worku: Why educating girls is essential for a sustainable future
• 10 Shukri Haji Ismail Bandare and Fatima Jibrell: Women, conflict and the environment in Somali society
• 11 Karin Nansen: The close ties between social and environmental justice
• 12 Gotelind Alber: Engendering urban climate policy
• 13 Lyla Mehta and Melissa Leach: Why do gender equality and sustainability go hand in hand?
• 14 Naoko Ishii: The benefits of using a gender lens
• 15 Caroline Lucas: Is there a specific role for women in helping to achieve environmental sustainability through politics?
• 16 Julie A. Nelson: Empowering a balanced and useful economics of sustainability: the role of gender
• 17 Vandana Shiva: Hand in hand: women’s empowerment and sustainability
• 18 Celia Alldridge: How the defence of the commons and territories has become a core part of feminist, anti-capitalist struggles
• 19 Maria Mies: Mother Earth
• 20 Jude Kelly: From icebergs to climate refugees
• 21 Nidhi Tandon: From individual to communal rights: empowering women for sustainable use of natural resources
• 22 Anna Fitzpatrick: The role of fashion in bringing about social and ecological change
• 23 Carina Hirsch: Family planning: a win-win for women and sustainability
• 24 Kate Metcalf and colleagues: The power of grassroots action for women’s empowerment and the environment
• 25 Marylyn Haines Evans: One hundred years of collective action for environmental change
• 26 Juliet Davenport: The impact of gender balance in the renewable energy sector
• 27 Emma Howard Boyd: More women in business for a sustainable economy
• Notes
• About the contributors
• About Zed