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Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed Joins 12 Other Women For Vogue Magazine Climate Action Cover

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The Magazine wrote, every year, the United Nations holds a summit on climate change, where it works to persuade countries large and small to give up fossil fuels. “This annual gathering, now in its 21st year, is called the Conference of the Parties, and it begins today in Paris.”

“Past negotiations have produced important treaties, such as the Kyoto Protocol and the Copenhagen Accord, but this year’s meeting, the COP21, is likely to yield the world’s first binding, universal agreement to cut carbon emissions and begin to address climate change.

“The stakes have never been higher: Scientists have identified 2 degrees Celsius of warming as a dangerous tipping point for the planet, and we are 0.85 degrees of the way there. But hope, too, is at an all-time high: the international community has never been closer to taking decisive action. Here, photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, are 13 of the formidable women leading the way prominent amongst the women is Amina Mohammed.

For Amina Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Environment it was said of her below by Vogue…
“In Africa, you don’t just think about the children that you bear,” says Amina Mohammed, special adviser on post-2015 development planning to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “Every child is yours.” In Mohammed’s home state of Nigeria, she says, climate change has exacerbated poverty. “It has come together as the perfect storm to create situations that have fueled Boko Haram, the terrorists that live in my part of the country.” But, says Mohammed, “I think we’re getting nearer the light at the end of the tunnel.”

 

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