What an inspiring week at NY Climate Week 2025! The Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN)/ The W+ Standard team was proud to bring a powerful message to the global stage: Investing in women is a climate solution — and a new asset class for impact investors.
We hosted dynamic conversations led by visionary speakers, including:
✨ Beyond Carbon: Empowering Women, Financing Climate Adaptation
Showcasing groundbreaking carbon projects like solar water pumps and mangrove restoration in India, demonstrating how carbon finance can directly fund women’s empowerment actions. This is a game-changing opportunity to bring adaptation funding to women’s collectives who are often excluded from traditional finance.
✨ The Gender Dividend: How Outcomes-Based Finance Can Deliver Results for Women, Investors, and ClimateExploring how investors, corporates, and carbon buyers can capture the Gender Dividend to scale transformative climate action using the The W+ Standard.
💡 Why this matters for investors and women’s organizations
📊 Measurable impact: The W+ Standard brings the same rigor to women’s empowerment that carbon standards bring to emissions reductions.
💰 New revenue streams: W+ Credits are verified, tradeable units, allowing investors to finance gender equality while meeting Net Zero and Nature-Based Solutions goals.
🌱 Resilience & risk mitigation: When women lead and benefit, climate projects are more sustainable, and communities thrive.
🌐 Exciting news: Impact investors, corporate buyers, and individuals can now purchase W+ Credits through our new website: www.wplus.org.
These credits certify measurable women’s empowerment outcomes from numerous projects and can be bought standalone or bundled with carbon credits — creating double impact for people and the planet.
✨ Key Highlights
🌱 Pioneering projects prove that climate and gender outcomes can be measured, verified, and scaled.
💰 The W+ Standard offers a tangible pathway for corporations and investors to align climate finance with gender equality.
🤝 Partnerships are growing with leaders integrating women’s empowerment into sustainability and investment strategies.
The takeaways
– When women thrive, climate projects deliver greater, measurable returns.
– Carbon markets can do more than reduce emissions — they can unlock funding for women’s leadership, livelihoods, and resilience, building stronger, more sustainable communities.
-The Gender Dividend isn’t just an idea — it’s a market-ready solution with proven results.
A huge thank you to our incredible speakers, and everyone who joined us in New York — including Kavita Sinha Green Climate Fund, Bruna Rezende and Ana Maria Loboguerrero Gates Foundation— for helping move this agenda forward.
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