From November 2 to 27, 2026, the City of Paris, CARE France and the MYOP Agency want to raise awareness among Parisians and visitors about the impacts of climate change on women and girls around the world.
CARE France is an organization that has been fighting poverty and inequality around the world for 80 years. It focuses on the correlation between climate change and gender. "Climate change is sexist" because it disproportionately impacts women and girls across the globe. It is girls who are pulled out of school to fetch water from ever farther away during droughts. Girls who are forced into marriage so there's one less mouth to feed. Women who sacrifice themselves when food runs short due to destroyed harvests. Women who experience a surge in domestic violence during heatwaves. But women and girls are also the champions of adaptation efforts within their communities. Agroecology, education, health programs, economic empowerment… women and girls are driving forces behind the solutions. Shrimp caught in the mangrove are resold at the market by a middleman, as women are banned from trading there. Bangladesh, Ruhita. July 2026. ; Credits: Agnès Dherbeys/MYOP A café along a river between Akroum and Wadi Khaled, once a major water source. "I remember the moment the local spring dried up. It was our main water supply; everyone was terrified." Huda al Mohamad, Lebanon, Akkar district, August 2026. ; Credits: Chloé Sharrock/MYOP Josselyn Vega Rojas is an indigenous Kichwa Panzaleo woman, a farmer and mother of two. Ecuador, Cotopaxi Province. August 2026. ; Credits: Adrienne Surprenant/MYOP Memory Kassim takes part in a massive effort to restore soil moisture and fertility by planting trees. Malawi, Katuli region. July 2026. ; Credits: Laurence Geai/MYOP As part of this project, Agnès Dherbeys, Chloé Sharrock, Adrienne Surprenant and Laurence Geai, four women photographers from the MYOP agency committed to this gender-and-climate nexus, document the lives of four of these climate heroines in Bangladesh, Lebanon, Ecuador and Malawi. Their circumstances (drought, flooding, water scarcity, El Niño, etc.), their family and professional lives, their role as community leaders: these in-depth, sensitive and human stories reveal the strength and transformative power of women in the face of climate change.
Source: paris.fr — photo: Laurence Geai/MYOP