Q1 2022 Overview – Renewable Energy Funds: Through a Gender Lens

By Marypat Thenell Smucker | June 1, 2022

Climate crises disproportionately affect women and girls across all demographics, but especially in developing economies. Subject to persistently higher poverty (and extreme poverty) than men, women and girls are also more likely to be impacted by climate disasters. In fact, 80% of those displaced by climate change are women, according to UN statistics. Due to ongoing worldwide…

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Q4 2020 Overview – A Call to Action: Aligning Gender Lens Investing and ESG

By Marypat Thenell Smucker | March 8, 2021

Gender lens investing (GLI) is a thematic environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy that is inspired by women in leadership (WIL) and related gender equality criteria. The primary publicly traded GLI equity funds available to individual investors include 12 global and 16 regional funds that together closed out 2020 with US$2.67 billion in assets under management…

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