A B S T R A C T Carbon markets are being promoted both by businesses and governments as a predominant way to address climate change. Critical scholarship on climate change has brought attention to their disappointing climate performance, for the social and geopolitical inequalities they engender, and for distracting from the imperative of changing […]
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Oct
Oct
Empower Co. hosted the reception during the NYC Climate week to showcase W+ Standard to scale quantifiable women’s empowerment impact. Jeannette and Rachel presented a brief overview of W+ Standard and Empower Co. It was a diverse gathering of like-minds and hearts from financial institutions, academia, private sector organizations, NGOs, public sector groups, media, and […]
11
Oct
Oct
Barun Gurung, Daniele Ramiaramanana and Lara Dominguez visited the Willife Works’ Kasigau Corridor REDD+ Project in Kenya to apply the W+ Standard. Wildlife Works will be one of the first project developers to apply the W+ label to the issuance of VCUs. The project will measure benefits to women through the following indicators: increased income […]
Featured, News
Quantifying the Benefits of Women’s Empowerment: The Missing Metric for Game-Changing Climate Action
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Sep
Sep
The W+ Standard is the first globally recognized framework that measures and monetizes women’s empowerment. Empower Co. is engaging with companies keen to cement their women’s-empowerment programs with robust data — and shift the mindset around climate action from mitigation to net positivity. Read more: https://sustainablebrands.com/read/new-metrics/quantifying-the-benefits-of-women-s-empowerment-the-missing-metric-for-game-changing-climate-action
Featured, Podcast
W+ Dialogues: How can the W+ Standard stimulate women’s empowerment in the forest sector?
01
Sep
Sep
[buzzsprout episode=’11120976′ player=’true’] The W+ Standard measures the results of women’s empowerment within the development and climate projects. Jeannette Gurung (Executive Director of WOCAN) discusses how the application of the W+ Standard to forestry programs of Nepal – a country with a rich history of women’s groups managing community forests – could provide a ‘best-case’ […]
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Aug
Aug
Paul Hawken is a thought leader in the climate change community and is the founder of both Project Drawdown and Project Regeneration. Project Regeneration is the world’s largest, most complete listing and network of solutions to the climate crisis. His Regeneration newsletter of 23 May 2022 recently featured the W+ Standard as a climate solution. […]
05
Aug
Aug
We want to welcome our new Advisory Council member Caroline Stillman. Caroline is Projects and Social Impacts officer at the Plan Vivo Foundation, a charitable organization and carbon standard that focuses on holistic impacts for nature, climate and communities. Caroline works closely with projects and focuses on increasing the positive impacts for people. They hold […]
Climate Change, Events, Video, Webinar
[Recording] WOCAN CSW66 Side Event: Financing women’s organizations & entrepreneurs using climate finance & markets
23
Mar
Mar
Climate finance and markets could enable women entrepreneurs and women’s groups to benefit from climate mitigation and adaptation projects, while de-risking activities for environmental project developers and impact investors. Speakers will showcase opportunities to scale up women’s groups and women-led enterprises managing climate projects by catalyzing new funding. WOCAN will share its experiences with the […]
22
Mar
Mar
Rachel Vestergaard officially launched Empower Co. with 60 guests representing large financial institutions, companies, the UN, media, NGOs, book publishers, entrepreneurs and even some block chain experts. Empower CO. which is the world’s first transparent and robust voluntary market for W+ Units. Empower Co. will sell W+ units from projects that give 50% of the proceeds […]
25
Feb
Feb
This paper focuses on how women and men are represented in the policy making process (i.e. procedural issues) and offers some preliminary observations on how they may be differently affected by a carbon price.
Climate Change, Events, Gender Lens Investing
WOCAN CSW66 Side-Event: Financing women’s organizations and entrepreneurs using climate finance and markets
17
Feb
Feb
March 22, 2 PM New York time
Climate Change, Events, Gender Lens Investing
UN-REDD event: The key to unlocking transformational change in climate-forest finance
19
Oct
Oct
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 […]