Climate And Gender
Coverage of investment strategies for addressing climate challenges with a gender lens. See a list of funds investing at the intersection of the climate and gender space. See the Climate and Gender Liist
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The Liist | March 5, 2024
Every day is International Women’s Day for female fund managers driving climate solutions (The Liist, March 2024)
Women running companies and asset management firms continue to raise less than 2% of total invested capital. Nevertheless, they persist. This month’s Liist …
Climate and Gender | November 17, 2023
To be effective, climate solutions need a gender lens (video)
ImpactAlpha, November 17 – That women are more adversely affected by climate change is well established (in impact and development circles at any …
Photo: Founders of Ayo Foods, a Supply Change portfolio company
Climate and Gender | November 14, 2023
These fund managers are putting climate + gender strategies into action
ImpactAlpha, November 14 – It’s early days, but investors are waking up to the outsized impact potential of investing at the intersection of …
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Sponsored | November 8, 2023
Women as agents of change: How Heading for Change invests in climate solutions with a gender lens
What does investing at the nexus of climate and gender really look like? This is the question at the heart of Heading for …
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Climate and Gender | October 30, 2023
Doubling down on guarantees, MCE Social Capital is unlocking capital for climate + gender
ImpactAlpha, October 30 – Impact investors know the challenges that come with building a market. Moving capital to address both climate change and …
IIX’s Durreen Shahnaz in Monday’s opening plenary at SOCAP23
Gender Smart | October 24, 2023
Gender lens investors at SOCAP23 look beyond the ‘business case’ to move capital to women
Don’t ask permission, ask forgiveness. That adage captured the mood shift among gender lens investors at this week’s SOCAP23 in San Francisco. Investors …
Staircase, street art and outdoor escalator in Comuna 13 in Medellín | Photo credit: Dennis Price
Gender Smart | October 19, 2023
Through a gender lens in Latin America, investors see opportunities for impact and alpha (videos)
Oct. 19, Medellín – The women of Comuna 13, a sprawling neighborhood in the hills above downtown Medellín, turned to graffiti art, hip-hop music …
Climate and Gender | April 11, 2023
With climate + gender fund, Suzanne Biegel is heading for change
If and when we have met the climate challenge, a key success factor will be clear: women. If you share that thesis, you …
Climate and Gender | March 8, 2023
Frontline communities hold the keys to inclusive gender and climate finance
Good green jobs. Better climate solutions. Food security. Resilient supply chains. Increased wealth in low-income communities. And increased returns for more stakeholders. Those …
Suzanne Biegel | Photo credit: Carmen Correa
Climate and Gender | October 24, 2022
Gender lens + climate finance = broader reach
ImpactAlpha, October 24 – Gender-lens investing’s next big thing: integrating gender considerations across climate action and other investment themes. Investors channeled more than $600 …
Photo credit: Kuli Kuli
Climate and Gender | March 1, 2021
Call No. 27: Opportunities at the intersection of gender and climate
ImpactAlpha, March 1 – Capital is flowing to climate solutions. Climate bonds have topped $1 trillion. SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies are …
WIC Capital portfolio company E-Cover, which recycles used tires
Climate and Gender | February 9, 2021
Mapping the climate edge for gender investors – and vice versa
ImpactAlpha, February 9 – A women-led, women-backed investment fund in Dakar, Senegal is getting an environmental bonus from the women entrepreneurs it supports. A …
Climate and Gender | January 7, 2021
Here are 10 ways investors are riding the sustainability wave into 2021
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 7 – The table was set with last year’s flows of capital into sustainable funds, renewable energy ‘SPACs,’ community development financial …
Climate and Gender | December 19, 2017
This woman is leading farmers in Peru to higher incomes, climate resilience and a better future
By Will McAneny, Root Capital Thirty years ago, this place looked very different. Nestled in the foothills where the Amazon rainforest meets the towering …
Climate and Gender | November 15, 2017
With women on the front lines of climate change, Fiji rallies reinforcements in Bonn
TAVUA, FIJI — Adi Alesi Nacoba’s bright purple eggplants, red chilies, and green vegetables bring a splash of color to the bustling market in the …
Climate and Gender | October 26, 2017
58 gender-lens funds and 25 responsible universal owners, Standard Life’s SDG fund, China’s climate…
Greetings, ImpactAlpha readers! #Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Meet 58 venture capital funds that are betting on women around the world. The rising social and …
Climate and Gender | July 11, 2017
Investments in sustainable agriculture are investments in the rest of the 2030 agenda
Farms accounts for nearly three-quarters of all water use. Agriculture is both affected by climate change and a significant carbon emitter. The sector …
Climate and Gender | March 10, 2017
Follow the Women: Introducing ImpactAlpha’s Women Rising
Every day is International Women’s Day in impact investing. Solutions in every domain, from climate to food to education to broad economic inclusion, …
Climate and Gender | November 16, 2015
At the Intersection of Gender and Climate Change: Investment Opportunities
Women’s rights and empowerment are receiving renewed global policy attention: The United Nations’ 20th anniversary of the World Conference of Women and the …
Impact Voices
2XI Asia-Pacific GP Sprint participants | Photo credit: 2X Global
Climate and Gender | February 7, 2024
In the Asia-Pacific region, girls just want to have funds!
In the bustling financial hub of Singapore, Rhea See, an early-stage fund manager at She Loves Tech Asia Emerging Outliers Fund, leads an …
Climate and Gender | January 30, 2024
Six questions to level up your climate + gender strategies
A growing number of climate investors are recognizing that applying a gender lens can deepen their climate impact – and accelerate a just …
Climate and Gender | August 23, 2022
Don’t panic. Include more women as decision-makers
Recession? Inflation? War? Climate change? The world is entering increasingly turbulent and unpredictable territory. Stock market gyrations suggest investors are torn on the …
Dealflow
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Dealflow | January 23, 2024
Alt-capital and alt-ownership models for circular hygiene startup Vyld
ImpactAlpha, January 23 – Ines Schiller and Melanie Schichan had a vision to strengthen the circular economy with sustainable hygiene and care products. …
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Climate and Gender | December 13, 2023
IIX scores $100 million for its sixth Women’s Livelihood Bond
ImpactAlpha, December 13 – Since launching the bond series in 2017, the Singapore-based impact investment firm has raised nearly $230 million to support …
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Asia | December 5, 2023
British International Investment backs trio of climate tech funds in South Asia
ImpactAlpha, December 5 — British International Investment, the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, has made a $25 million allocation to GEF …
Climate Finance | October 27, 2023
Deal Spotlight: Equipping frontline communities for the climate transition
ImpactAlpha, October 27 — Low-income and communities of color bear the brunt of climate change. They also hold the key to many climate …
Climate and Gender | October 18, 2023
MCE Social Capital notches $41.6 million for its sustainable agriculture fund
ImpactAlpha, October 18 – The MCE Empowering Sustainable Agriculture fund, or MESA, builds on MCE Capital’s 17 years of support for small agribusinesses …
Galvanize Climate Solutions' Tom Steyer.
Climate and Gender | September 18, 2023
Galvanize Climate Solutions closes Innovation+Expansion fund with more than $1 billion
ImpactAlpha, September 18 — Galvanize Climate Solutions has raised over $1 billion for its inaugural Innovation+Expansion Fund. The San Francisco-based growth equity fund, …
Satgana's founding team | Photo by Satgana.
Climate and Gender | November 1, 2022
Satgana raises funds for climate tech startups in Africa and Europe
ImpactAlpha, November 2 — Luxembourg-based Satgana, which means “a good company” in Sanskrit, has raised an undisclosed amount in a first close from …
(left to right) Sarah Sclarsic and Sierra Peterson of Voyager Ventures
Climate and Gender | April 7, 2022
Women-led Voyager Ventures raises a $100 million climate tech fund
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 7 – Voyager Ventures has raised a $100 million climate tech fund. The first fund from Sierra Peterson and Sarah Sclarsic attracted …
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Climate and Gender | January 31, 2022
Impact Investment Exchange lists $30 million Women’s Livelihood Bond on the Singapore Exchange
ImpactAlpha, January 31 — Singapore-based Impact Investment Exchange has listed WLB4Climate on the Singapore Exchange. Proceeds from the $30 million bond will be …
Podcasts
Podcasts | February 12, 2021
Impact Briefing: Week of February 12
Host Monique Aiken checks in with Suzanne Biegel in London to debrief this week’s GenderSmart Investing Summit.
Calls
Climate and Gender | November 17, 2023
To be effective, climate solutions need a gender lens (video)
ImpactAlpha, November 17 – That women are more adversely affected by climate change is well established (in impact and development circles at any …
Photo credit: Kuli Kuli
Climate and Gender | March 1, 2021
Call No. 27: Opportunities at the intersection of gender and climate
ImpactAlpha, March 1 – Capital is flowing to climate solutions. Climate bonds have topped $1 trillion. SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies are …