Sisters on the Planet demonstrates how climate change disproportionately affects people in poor communities, and women in particular.

In its annual briefing at the United Nations Dec. 2, the League of Women Voters of New York State discussed “The Impact of Global Warming on Women and Children Around the World,” using Sisters on the Planet as an illustration.

This often overlooked perspective on the climate change issue focused in part on the ways in which natural disasters resulting from climate change are having a devastating effect on the ability of women to provide food and water to their children, and otherwise maintain the health and wellbeing of their families.

The League's United Nations Observer, Doris Schapira, is available to League members visiting New York and the UN; she is happy to help members learn more about this important organization with which the League has such a long history.