What is Inclusive Climate Finance?
Only 2.3% of climate finance is dedicated to improving gender equality. As the climate crisis worsens, we are working with our partners to ensure that climate finance reaches the local level and is inclusive and equitable for all community members.
Our work includes integrating inclusion across climate finance programmes, conducting research studies for clients on inclusive carbon markets, developing practical guidance for carbon project developers and for companies purchasing carbon credits, and delivering training and technical assistance related to GEDSI, safeguarding and climate finance.
In the Voluntary Carbon Market, we are working with standard-setting agencies, carbon project developers, implementing partners, advisory firms, buyers, and bilateral and multilateral funders, to promote a high-integrity carbon market which ensures that community members and staff across the market are safe from harms and able to benefit from carbon credit projects.
Our work in this area
- We co-authored the first major study on women's participation in the Voluntary Carbon Market, which was influential in establishing gender equality as part of a new governance framework for high-integrity carbon credit projects.
- We co-authored the first comprehensive guidance for carbon project developers on how to integrate gender into their projects, which was co-signed by ICVCM and launched at Climate Week NYC 2024.
- We have undertaken training on the W+ Standard, the first women-specific standard that measures women's empowerment in a transparent and quantifiable manner, giving monetary value to results, and which can be integrated into climate finance projects.
