This knowledge event aimed to spotlight gender issues and approaches in the evolving climate-forest finance arena, as well as showcase ongoing efforts to mainstream gender inclusion and equality and empower women economically. Mario Boccucci, the Head of the UN-REDD Secretariat, opened up the event by highlighting the need to unlock and leverage the full potential that climate-forest finance can have when it also integrates gender and empowers women.Ultimately, it aimed to encourage action and replication among countries, financiers and development stakeholders in the climate-forest financial arena.
WOCAN was invited to share their experience creating the W+ Standard to measure the impact of project activities on women’s empowerment and incentivize and accelerate investments in women.
During the event, which used digital means as per new post-Covid practices, participants disseminated and exchanged knowledge and good practices on how diverse actors – from government ministries to NGOs, and to voluntary carbon market standard bodies – are integrating gender into climate-forest finance to promote the transformative change needed to successfully fight climate change.
