Gender-responsive sustainable finance recognises that green financing instruments can be used to address gender inequalities. Despite progress, women worldwide have less access to finance and related decision making, and sustainable finance frameworks often fail to integrate gender responsiveness, metrics, and data.

Next Tuesday, 15 March at 3PM CET, join the Green Finance Platform for "Gender-Responsive Sustainable Finance: Towards Inclusive Market Economies." An official Side Event for the 66th Commission on the Status of Women, this webinar will feature inputs from experts at the OECD, IFC, EBRD, GGGI, Climate Investment Funds, and UNDP Finance Sector Hub.

The discussion will focus on practical knowledge, including:

▶️ Measuring gender-responsive financing: Incorporation of gender in investors’ financial analysis (intangible asset) and ESG selection criteria, with focus on metrics and monitoring impact, business case for gender-sensitive green credit lines.

▶️ Encouraging international climate finance mechanisms to use gender-disaggregated data: Gender policy in climate funds and incentives to access those funds.

▶️ Catalysing gender-responsive sustainable finance: Investment incentives that governments may use to address gender equity, including subsidies, grants, tax incentives, blended finance, and procurement incentives.

Learn more and register ? ggkp.org/grf

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COP26 was described as "our last chance saloon" to save the planet. More than 35,000 delegates from 197 countries descended on host-city Glasgow over two weeks last November, and at the end we had a new climate agreement – the Glasgow Climate Pact, which will set the global climate agenda to 2030 ?

But in the months that have passed since, the response to COP26 and the Pact has been predictably cool. So what did all the talks and meetings mean? Post-Glasgow, are we really better placed to tackle the climate crisis? And is it time to give young people more of a say in their own climate futures? ✊

In this final episode of #TheGreenRenaissance podcast, we ask what the real legacy of Glasgow will be. Featuring interviews with Angus Mackay (United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Jayati Ghosh (University of Massachusetts), Marie-Claire Graf and Heeta Lakhani (both YOUNGO).

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NEW RESEARCH

Basque Centre for Climate Change and GGKP developed an NCA methodology to assess the costs, benefits, and investment gap for achieving select natural capital-related SDG targets and applied it to 20 countries. The report found that for every nature-related SDG target analysed the benefits of investing in natural capital outweigh the costs.

By knowing which intervention will have the greatest impact in terms of natural capital and enhancement and financial return, this data can help governments and financial institutions prioritize their investments and meet their 2030 targets.

More from lead author Dr. Anil Markandya: ggkp.org/ZaY

How can we identify gender gaps in current and future recovery measures? The integration of gender-transformative policies is necessary in driving a sustainable and inclusive recovery. Read more about the challenges and opportunities for gender policies in the European Green Deal: