On International Women’s Day, see how clean energy powers equality

Video: Sustainable energy helps women shine

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Craig Burnett

Senior Communications Officer

The theme of International Women’s Day 2019 is Balance for Better,
recognising that women around the globe face unique barriers and disadvantages
that stop them reaching their full potential.

Sustainable energy can tear down these barriers and create a
more gender-balanced world – by helping women earn a living, travel safely and
stay healthy. These are crucial steps towards fairer societies, where women share
the power and influence too often monopolised by men.

Why does this matter? It’s not only because everyone
deserves to be treated fairly. Tackling the climate change crisis will need the
skill, hard work and ingenuity of the whole world – we simply can’t afford to
exclude or hold back half the planet. And we certainly won’t address the energy
problems that particularly affect women (such as indoor air pollution) without
women themselves playing a central role.

Since our first Ashden Awards in 2001, we have seen women use sustainable
energy to transform themselves and their communities. Here are three good news
stories from around the world – examples of women pioneering clean energy
innovation or using it to build better lives and a brighter future.

Frontier Markets, India

 

BURN Manufacturing, Kenya

 

Shuttl, India

 

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