[Webinar] Gender Inclusive Carbon Markets: Innovative Solutions for Women’s Participation and Benefits
2025-03-05 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Carbon markets offer significant opportunities for financing climate action in emerging markets, yet women face substantial barriers to participation. This webinar will examine how financial services and standardized approaches to measuring gender outcomes can create more inclusive carbon projects. Leading practitioners will share insights and practical examples of how innovative financing and impact measurement can drive greater inclusion while enhancing project value, including:

Sandeep Roy Choudhury, Co-Founder & Director, Value Network Ventures on implementing gender-responsive projects and developing financing models that enhance women’s participation.
Jeannette Gurung, Executive Director, WOCAN and Creator of the W+ Standard introducing their pioneering framework for measuring women’s empowerment in carbon projects and implementing effective benefit sharing mechanisms.
Haseeb Bakhtary, Lead Consultant, Climate Focus discussing the latest research on gender integration trends and impact measurement approaches.

For more information, and to register, visit https://worldbankgroup.zoom.us/meeting/register/_uj4j8bATN2wxNfnwvbkkw.

GCF Board Meeting in Songdo, Korea
2025-03-17 - 2025-03-21 | GCF, Korea, Republic of
Jeannette will be attending the GCF Board Meeting in Songdo, Korea, from 17-21 February.
Jeannette will be meeting up with GCF staff of three divisions interested in how WOCAN and the W+ Standard can enhance the Fund’s gender equality outcomes.

Beyond Carbon: Empowering Women, Financing Climate Adaptation
2025-09-22 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
For the first time, carbon projects are not only reducing emissions but also delivering verified, measurable benefits for women. This groundbreaking session highlights pioneering initiatives in India—solar water pumps of a women’s social enterprise and livelihood activities linked to a mangrove restoration project—that apply the W+ Standard to quantify women’s empowerment across time savings, knowledge, and income generation, alongside carbon reductions.
​Featuring Jeannette Gurung, Founder of WOCAN and the W+ Standard, alongside Sandeep Roy Choudhury the Co Founder & Director of Value Network Ventures and Elizabeth Munee Kiamba (Financial Sector Specialist at CGAP)
​Speakers will demonstrate how these projects generate new revenue streams through gender outcome credits while strengthening climate resilience and community well-being.
​Participants will learn how investors, corporates, and carbon buyers can engage with this next generation of high-impact carbon projects that put women at the center of climate action.
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The Gender Dividend: Investing in Women for Climate Impact
2025-09-24 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
The Gender Dividend: How Outcomes-Based Finance Can Deliver Results for Women, Investors, and Climate
​Women’s empowerment is not just a social good—it’s a measurable driver of climate impact and financial returns.
​This fireside chat explores how outcomes-based finance is unlocking a new class of investable opportunities that deliver results for women, communities, and the planet. Featuring Jeannette Gurung, Founder of WOCAN and the W+ Standard, alongside Kavita Sinha, Head of the Green Climate Fund’s Private Sector Facility; Bruna Rezende, the CEO of a social asset company in Brazil, IRIADA and Dr. Ana Maria Loboguerrero (Director, Adaptive and Equitable Food Systems – The Gates Foundation).
​Speakers will share practical models—like gender outcome credits and investment vehicles—that align capital flows with gender equity and sustainability. Participants will gain insights into how investors, corporates, and carbon buyers can capture the “gender dividend” to scale transformative climate action.
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Capacity Building on Integrating Coastal Blue Carbon Ecosystems into Climate Policies in the APEC Region
2025-10-15 08:00 - 2025-10-16 17:00 (Asia/Taipei)
Marianne Gilchrist, W+ expert and WOCAN Core Associate, will contribute a session on the W+ Standard and its application in gender-responsive climate action, highlighting how women’s empowerment can be integrated into blue carbon and climate policy frameworks.
The Ocean Affairs Council, in collaboration with the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER), is hosting a two-day APEC-funded workshop on October 15–16 in Taipei City. The workshop will convene stakeholders from across the APEC region for policy dialogue and on-site field visits, culminating in a set of policy recommendations to advance climate resilience and sustainable marine development.
This initiative supports APEC economies in advancing the Putrajaya Vision 2040 by enhancing capacity to incorporate coastal blue carbon ecosystems into climate strategies—such as economy-wide NDCs and adaptation plans—while fostering knowledge exchange on blue carbon pricing and sustainable development.

Making Social Impact Count: A Dialogue on Trade offs, Challenges and Opportunities
2026-06-24 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London)
Across global carbon markets, a significant gap persists between stated commitments to social impact and how procurement decisions are actually made. As scrutiny on corporate climate claims intensifies, buyers are being asked to demonstrate measurable value for communities, for workers, for women, not only tonnes. Yet procurement strategies rarely reflect this, and the market infrastructure to support it is still being built.
Jeannette Gurung and Sandeep Roy Choudhury (Co-founder & Director, VNV) will facilitate the closed door buyer-led dialogue, during the London Climate Action Week. They will explore how social impact, livelihoods, and gender inclusion can become real drivers, not afterthoughts, in carbon credit procurement.

No Integrity Without Inclusion: Gender and the Future of Carbon Markets
2026-06-25
WOCAN and CGAP will convene a high‑level, stakeholder roundtable during London Climate Week 2026 to address a critical question:
How does women’s inclusion shape the integrity of carbon markets?
If you are interested to attend any of the London Climate Action Week events, contact sheenapatel@wocan.org,

Gender and Outcome-Based Finance: Mobilizing Capital for Climate Impact and Women-Centred Solutions
2026-06-25 09:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London)
WOCAN and CGAP will organize an invitation only high-level roundtable on 25 June, during the London Climate Action Week.
This session will explore how gender-responsive metrics and outcome-based finance can accelerate women centred climate solutions by tying capital to verified results and structuring finance to reward impact.
