About half a million Indian women now have access to employment insurance against extreme heat, according to Hillary Clinton, who backed an initiative to promote such protections.
The development reflects rising enrollments in programs that offer compensation when temperatures hit specific thresholds. That gives outdoor workers, particularly women, the option of avoiding long periods of dangerous heat exposure as temperatures rise.
The Clinton Global Initiative has been working with the nonprofit Humanity Insured to bring such insurance initiatives to India, and the program is now a model that can be replicated, Clinton told the Mumbai Climate Week conference on Wednesday.
“We’ve got to get creative and it’s going to start in India,” she said. “It’s going to start in the Global South, and then it can travel the world.”
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