The current global crisis presents a unique opportunity to put climate resilience at the center of the conversation around what is important, and how to build a better future for all. The solutions to build resilience to crisis are linked to the preservation of our earth’s resources, and the stewardship of these. In this podcast series, we will be sharing 10 solutions for a climate resilience post-recovery, through conversations with international thought leaders.
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In this episode, we speak with Neera Van der Geest, CEO of the FairClimateFund, a social venture that invests and trades in CO2 reduction certificates that benefit people, mostly women and children, that are most vulnerable to climate change to give them a more sustainable livelihood. Neera shares her perspective on the importance of investing for social and environmental impacts and calls for more transparency in the way impact is measured and how benefits are shared with those that enable this impact to happen.
Neera Van der Geest is graduated in Environmental Development Economics from the Agricultural University in Wageningen. She has always worked on the edge of economic development, poverty alleviation and environmental protection, for the private sector (engineering), public sector (Dutch government) and for the international NGO ICCO. Since 2008 she is CEO of ICCO’s FairClimateFund, which has invested almost 7 million euros in projects located in India, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Peru, India. The carbon credits are traded to corporates implementing a CSR policy on climate.
Reference to the GIIN 2020 Annual Impact Investor Survey
