WOCAN’s mission through the W+ Standard aims to support and scale women’s empowerment outcomes within projects, including those of Verra. Verra’s mission is to support climate action and sustainable development with standards programs that credibly, transparently, and robustly assess environmental and social impacts and enable funding for sustaining and scaling up these benefits. WOCAN and […]
Category Archives: Climate Change
In considering high-quality carbon credits, buyers should prioritize projects that not only addressclimate change mitigation but also align with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This factsheetoffers additional guidance and due diligence questions for projects aligned with SDG 5 (genderequality and women’s empowerment), which are integral to achieving all goals in the 2030 SustainableDevelopment Agenda.
The document developed by WOCAN, provides buyers with criteria for ensuring their carbon credit purchases do no harm and have a positive contribution towards gender equality and women’s empowerment, complete with due diligence questions and example answers for buyers.
Verra and the W+ Standard have released an updated guidance document (PDF) for proponents of projects in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program that are concurrently certified with the W+ Standard Program and are seeking to apply a W+ (external) label to Verified Carbon Units (VCUs) generated by their project. A VCU certification label indicates that a project meets the requirements […]
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Jeannette Gurung will be at the COP28 in Dubai, UAE from 4th – 10th December 2023 and is looking forward to connecting with you in person. It will be an opportunity to exchange ideas about some of the trends and discussions surrounding climate action today. Topics we’d be interested to discuss include: 1. Enhancing the […]
WOCAN has received a grant for Assessing the Landscape: Climate Adaptation, Women’s Organizations & Enterprises from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to design an innovative model in gender-responsive climate adaptation and resilience. The intended outcome of this planning grant is the development of a Strategy Implementation Framework to provide a clear path for rural women’s […]
The REDD Implementation Center, World Bank Nepal and WOCAN organized three stakeholder workshops in Lumbini and Madhesh provinces and information session in Kathmandu to provide information on the W+ Standard and readiness for gender action in REDD+ between December 4 to 9, 2022 in Nepal. The objective of the workshops and Information session was to […]
Climate Change, Featured, News
Changing business as usual in global climate and development action: Making space for social justice in carbon markets
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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 […]
Climate Change, Events, Video, Webinar
[Recording] WOCAN CSW66 Side Event: Financing women’s organizations & entrepreneurs using climate finance & markets
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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 […]
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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.