The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.

No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it's also clear that women are also our greatest hope for ending it. We at CARE have long believed that if you change the life of a girl or woman, you don't just change that individual, you change her family and then her community.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.