Between April-June 2021, WOCAN conducted a survey with women working as brokers, investors, and auditors, to answer the following questions:
- How do women participate in and contribute to the environmental markets ecosystem?
- Can environmental markets generate benefits for women?
- What is the market interest in this and can it be developed to scale up the impact for women?
- Does the supply of credits meet the demand?
The survey identified real interest to engage and unite for a feminization of the environmental markets and thus promote gender equality. But there are obstacles such as information on the number of projects carried out by women or benefiting women; a lack of gender awareness within the ecosystem; and a lack of knowledge about the existence of a standard (the W+ Standard) that is already set up to address expressed interest to support projects for women’s empowerment.
Read the report here: REPORT_Survey _ Women in the carbon market ecosystem_Final.
