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More than 100 global leaders late on Monday pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, underpinned by $19 billion in public and private funds to invest in protecting and restoring forests. ....
World Leaders Commit $40 Billion to Advancing Gender Equality A quarter century after the Beijing World Conference on Women, political leaders, corporate executives and activists convened again to address gender equality. This time they brought money to the table. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, U.N. Women’s executive director, gave a sweeping speech to kick off the Generation Equality Forum in Paris.Credit.Michel Euler/Associated Press “One-quarter isn’t equality. Equality is one-half.” Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of U.N. Women In Her Words is available as a newsletter. . World leaders don’t often gather with the sole purpose of investing money in women’s advancement. They don’t even typically gather for major discussions on the issue; it seems to happen only about once every quarter-century. ....