Photo Credit: UN Women/Narendra Shrestha We are pleased to share the W+ Standard newsletter for the months of August-October, 2021. This is an update on W+ Standard activities and other news in the space of gender and climate change, leading up to the COP26 in Glasgow (UK) in a couple of weeks. You may also find here resources on the topic […]
Category Archives: Climate Change
Photo Credit: IFAD / G.M.B.Akash Purpose A lively discussion amongst colleagues with a common interest in exploring the potential of climate finance, and carbon markets in particular, as an opportunity for pushing forward on gender equality and women’s empowerment. When Thursday, October 28, 2021 from 18:00 – 19:30 CET Moderator Jeannette Gurung, Executive Director, […]
Here you can access a non-exhaustive glossary of terms related to Carbon Measurement and Markets. This can help you to understand what all the phrases and terminology found in the Voluntary Carbon Market really means.
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 […]
Watch the video here! The Generation Equality Forum is a global gathering for gender equality convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, in partnership with youth and civil society. The Forum kicked off in Mexico City in March and will culminate in Paris from 30 June to 2 July 2021, […]
On June 17, 2021, we had a webinar discussion with a common interest in exploring the potential of climate finance, and carbon markets in particular, as an opportunity for pushing forward on gender equality. The session was hosted by Jeannette Gurung of WOCAN in association with Sue Phillips of Gender Tech Enterprises. The discussion revolved […]
This is the Open Letter submitted to the Task Force on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets (TSVCM) in response to their call for inputs. The letter is co-authored by Sue Phillips (CEO of Gender Tech Enterprises) and Jeannette Gurung (Executive Director, WOCAN) and comes at a critical point, aiming to spearhead action on gender equality, capitalizing […]
Purpose This webinar will start building a conversation on how to promote a stronger focus on gender equality in the carbon markets as a major component of the flow of climate finance to the global South. This will be an informal session to bring interested individuals and organisations together for a discussion to explore: Why […]
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We very much appreciate your inputs and time in completing this survey, and will share the results with you when available. If you are a woman engaged in the environmental markets ecosystem, we would love to hear from you: Please fill out our survey We are mapping women in the carbon and environmental markets ecosystem, in […]
Climate Change
IEU GCF – WOCAN webinar: How the scaling of voluntary carbon markets can amplify gender equality impacts
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March is Women’s History Month, and this month’s Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) Virtual Talk was dedicated to the theme of gender in climate change. Dr. Jeannette Gurung from WOCAN made a case for jointly addressing climate and gender equality and presented the W+ Standard methodology. Ms. Seblewongel Deneke Negussie from the GCF served as a […]
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Abstract At present, both public and private sector institutions are aiming to increase their impact on two pressing global challenges: climate change and gender inequality. A new initiative, the Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets, led by some of the world’s largest financial institutions and corporates demonstrates the corporate commitment to achieve Net Zero GHG […]
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W+ Presentation _Project Developers 2020 The W+ Standard is the first women-specific standard that measures women’s empowerment in a transparent and quantifiable manner, gives a monetary value to results and creates a new channel to direct financial resources to women. This is a unique opportunity for project developers to monetize women’s empowerment activities through a […]