Women form the majority of the world’s 1.9 billion population who live in poverty and of the close to 700 million in extreme poverty, of the 770 million without access to electricity and the 2.6 billion still cooking with traditional biomass, with the numbers expected to significantly rise in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.…
Gender and Climate Finance (2019)
This 2019 update of Climate Finance Fundamentals Brief #10 outlines some key principles and actions for making climate financing instruments more responsive to the needs of men and women as equal participants in decision-making and as beneficiaries of climate actions and supportive of gender equality more broadly. Women form the majority of the world’s 2.1…
Gender and Climate Finance (2018)
This 2018 update of Climate Finance Fundamentals Brief #10 outlines some key principles and actions for making climate financing instruments more responsive to the needs of men and women as equal participants in decision-making and as beneficiaries of climate actions and supportive of gender equality more broadly. Women form the majority of the world’s 2.1…