As we celebrate women's month this March and also the 'ISLANDS Call to Action on Gender Equality & Technology', active engagement of women in technology and science couldn't have been stressed more. The trend is very much present and relevant of course, within the environmental work - whether that'd be climate, conservation, pollution prevention, and so on.

This IUCN blog introduces stories of women around the world, leading and participating in efforts to accelerate our progress towards an environmentally sustainable future. They include Guatemalan women leading their Climate Change Gender Action Plan (ccGAP) and Peruvian women in NASA's Amazonian hub operations, utilising technical skills like the GIS programming and application, daily.

Scientific research based on STEM and digital literacy is at the heart of feeding correct factual information and analysis into our collective progress towards halting the planetary crisis. And yet, according to UNESCO, women make up 30-45% of scientific researchers around the world.

As we celebrate women's leadership, skills, and resilience this month, stories like this can all the more inspire SIDS communities and beyond, to materialise environmental action led by brilliant women in science and technology. What are your stories? Share your thoughts and experience for the 'ISLANDS Call to Action'!

ISLANDS Call to Action on Gender Equality & Technology:
https://thegreenforum.org/opportunities/islands-call-action-gender-equa…