As the world struggles to catch up with climate change — whether confronting extreme wildfire smoke in the U.S. Northeast, or some of the hottest temperatures on record in Pakistan — each country must grapple with its own particular issues. The United Nations has been working with dozens of countries in creating a National Adaptation Plan (NAP), which means identifying problems — financial, technical, and institutional — and then creating coping strategies to deal with them.

The NAP Global Network, which has multi-country funding and supports the creation of national adaptation plans, has been working with young women, for instance, in Ghana on lifting up their voices on global warming. Together with the nonprofit Lensational, which offers media training to underrepresented women, the network is teaching visual storytelling. One of the Ghanian attendees of a recent workshop emphasized the need to document and appeal to women as the planet changes.