Nancy Pelosi stresses climate impacts on women

GLASGOW: US House speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for putting women and girls at the center of efforts to fight climate change, saying they are disproportionately affected by the impacts of a warming planet.
Pelosi is leading a delegation of congressional Democrats to the UN climate talks in Glasgow this week to send a message that the United States has rejoined international initiatives to curb climate change after the Trump years.
Global warming "is a threat multiplier, amplifying and accelerating existing inequities in our economies and societies," Pelosi said during a Tuesday meeting focused on gender and climate change.
A report by the UN Development Program has estimated that 80% of those displaced by climate change are women.
Pelosi said a a $1.85 trillion package of measures focused on health, family and climate change reflected the Biden administration's goal to ``build back better with women.'' Democratic holdouts have the bill currently stalled in Congress.
Echoing President Joe Biden, Pelosi said: "America is back together for the planet, for the women, for our children"