Giving Compass' Take:

• This blog post from TED-Ed talks about how educating young girls can help fight climate change, since they will be better equipped to help their families during extreme weather shocks.

• What programs around the globe can help give girls in low-income areas more access to high-quality education? How can international groups support them?

• Here's more on how we can promote girls' education so they can thrive in the future workforce.

If I asked you to name one of the most effective ways to combat climate change, what would your answer be? Installing solar panels on rooftops? Building wind turbines? Driving electric cars?

How about educating girls?

That’s right. Educating girls.

In 2017, a broad coalition of researchers, scientists, business leaders and policymakers came together for Project Drawdown. This was a multidisciplinary effort to identify the most substantive solutions to not just halt global warming, but actually cause an annual decline — or “drawdown” — in the concentration of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.

The team looked at dozens of methods of minimizing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and in the end, they drew up a list of 80 immediate and practical measures — along with 20 near-future concepts — that can keep CO2 out of the sky. What they did, in other words, was rank the 100 most powerful solutions to reversing global warming.

Educating girls was number 6.

Read the full article about educating girls to fight climate change by Shabana Basij-Rasikh at blog.ed.ted.com.