The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change consistently notes that women, birthing parents, children, and babies are among the most vulnerable populations when it comes to the impacts of climate change, but what are the specific risk factors that make these populations so vulnerable? What does climate change have to do with fertility and reproduction?
This event is a part of the series Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis, a collaboration between Grist, Vox, and The 19th that investigates how climate change impacts reproductive health — from menstruation to conception to birth.