This month is all about girls and the environment here at Because I am a Girl. To get us all on the same page, we’re starting out with a handy glossary of definitions of what we’ll be talking about over the next few weeks. Climate change: When we talk about climate, we mean the general weather conditions [...]

Water and the environment are global issues, but did you know that they’re also girls’ issues? Today we’re kicking off a month-long focus on water and the environment. Here’s a roundup of posts I’ve written in the past to get you started! Girls are the world’s water gatherers: Almost the first thing you hear about [...]

When you think about it, climate change is a two way relationship. On the one side, human actions are causing the climate to change through our carbon emissions. On the other, the climate change is causing environmental degradation and weather catastrophes. So how does this relate to girls? Well, it means that we’re both the [...]

Climate change poses the greatest risk to the most vulnerable members of society. Often, this means girls. Climate change doesn’t just mean changes in temperature up and down, but also that what are known as “weather events” (aka, extreme weather conditions like storms, heat waves, floods and droughts). These weather events often cause crisis in [...]

Meet Beatrice.  She’s spent the last couple of weeks telling the world about climate change as one of Plan International’s young reporters currently in Copenhagen at the UN Climate Change Conference.  Way to go, Beatrice! For a second, we’ll get her to step out from behind her video camera (check out some of the interviews [...]

Maybe you’ve heard about it in the news: right now, 30,000 people are in Copenhagen (in Denmark) trying to create a plan to address climate change.  By the end of this week, world leaders hope that they will have an agreement that will “stabilize the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at a level [...]