GLIC Knowledge Library
This library aggregates knowledge pieces that combine a gender and climate lens and provides a summary of each. These range from scientific studies to reports, articles, toolkits and initiatives.
Gender equality and the climate crisis: where do international commitments stand?
June 2025
2X Global:
Inclusive gender
and climate finance report
February 2023
OECD: Supporting women’s empowerment through green policies and finance
September 2022
ADB: Financial Instruments to Strengthen Women’s Economic Resilience to Climate Change
August 2022
Women Deliver: Invest in Girls and Women to Tackle Climate Change and Conserve the Environment
December 2019
UK Government: Integrating Gender Considerations Into Sustainable Bonds
February 2022
McKinsey: The power of parity-How advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth
September 1, 2015
CDC Group (BII): Gender-smart investing as an enabler of the just transition
The Southern Africa Climate Finance Partnership: Knowledge for Climate Finance Mobilisation
April 2020
MaRS Discovery District & Export Development Canada: Closing the Gender Gap in Cleantech Innovation
December 2020
USAID: Gender Equality and Climate Finance Technical Brief
November 2022
GenderSmart:
Gender & Climate Investment Report
February 2021
ADB and Nordic Development Fund: Mainstreaming Gender into Climate Mitigation Activities
December 2016
WHO: Gender, Climate Change and Health
2014
2X Climate Finance Taskforce: Ways to Gender-Smart Climate Finance: Sustainable agriculture, food and forestry
The Commonwealth: Gender Integration for Climate Action
November 2022
VfW: Influencing and Advocacy for Gender-Inclusive Climate-Smart Agriculture
August 2021
Aviva: Women in Finance Climate Action Group report
October 2021
UNDP: Gender and Climate Change Training Module
September 2017
Drawdown Lift: Climate-Poverty Connections Report
March 2022
Heinrich Böll Stiftung: Gender and Climate Finance
February 2022
Gender & Risk Finance: How climate risk insurance can turn four women’s lives around?
March 2022
UN Women: Explainer-How gender inequality and climate change are interconnected
February 2022
CGIAR & AICCRA: Strategic roadmap on mainstreaming gender-smart investing to scale climate smart agriculture in SSA
June 2022
Oxfam: Making Climate Finance Work for Women in South Africa
January 2013
IISD: Why a Gender Lens Is Key to Sustainable Investing
May 2021
Sida: Gender Equality, Environment & Climate Change
March 2021
GenderSmart: How to fight climate change with gender equality
February 2021
2XCollaborative: The Gender-Smart Climate Finance Guide
2022
GenderSmart: Unleashing the power of gender‑smart climate investing in developed markets
2022
Value4Women: Innovations in Gender-Inclusive Climate-Smart Agriculture
2018
CABRI: Gender and climate-change budgeting and finance: Lessons from the IBFCCA Programme
2022
GenderSmart & KiteInsights: The Gender & Climate Investment Working Group
2021
2X Global: 2X Gender and Climate Finance Taskforce
2022
AfDB: Gender & Climate Finance Policy Brief
September 2014
IRENA: Renewable Energy: A Gender Perspective
2019
OECD: Making climate finance work for women
November 2015
OECD: Development Finance for Gender Responsive Climate Action
March 2022
World Economic Forum: Why the world needs to invest in female climate entrepreneurs
September 27, 2021
WOCAN: Gender and Climate Finance Sourcebook: A Handbook for Building Partnerships
October 2020
UNU-WIDER: Can Climate Finance Achieve Gender Equity in Developing Countries?
March 2014
CIFOR and UNDP: Leveraging climate finance for gender equality and poverty reduction
2020
CGIAR, CCAFS, FAO: Gender & Climate Change Research in Agriculture and Food Security for Development
2012
Bank for International Settlements: Does gender diversity in the workplace mitigate climate change?
November 2021
DCED: Women’s participation in green growth – a potential fully realised?
2012
Bloomberg: Gender Diversity and Climate Innovation
December 1, 2020
OECD: Women’s leadership in environmental action
April 2022
Gender and Climate Change: South Africa Case Study
2010
ICMA, UN Women, IFC: Bonds to Bridge the Gender Gap
2021
WeClim Equally: Gender-smart handbook for climate programmes
2022
ADB & Nordic Development Fund: Training Manual to Support Country-Driven Gender and Climate Change
2015
ENERGIA: The Benefits of Gender Balance in Climate Change Mitigation Investment & Sustainable Energy
2013
Bridge: Gender and climate change: mapping the linkages - A scoping study on knowledge and gaps
2008
FAO: Gender, Climate and Agriculture - integrating gender in climate change projects
Heinrich Boll Stiftung, WEDO: Gender and Climate Change Finance: A case study from the Philippines
2013
IBP: Tracking Climate Change Funding: Learning from Gender-Responsive Budgeting
2014
Heinrich Boll Stiftung: Gender and Climate Finance-Double Mainstreaming for Sustainable Development
2009
UNDP, GGCA: Ensuring gender equity in climate change financing
2011
Climate Links: USAID’s Best Practices for Advancing Gender-Responsive Climate Work
November 14, 2022
Building the Capacity for Small & Growing Businesses to Improve Climate Resilience of Women Farmers
February 2021
AfDB: Gender Responsive Climate Resilient Solutions in Africa
September 2021
UN Women: Women, Gender Equality and Climate Change
2009
ASAP: Gender and Climate Change
November 2022
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business: Women Create A Sustainable Future
October 2012
IISD: Integrating Gender Considerations in Green Bonds
October 2021
VfW: Gender-Smart Green Financing Toolkit
May 2022
VfW: Gender Inclusion for Climate-Smart Agribusinesses
August 2018
The Rallying Cry: Catalysing Investment to Scale Gender and Climate Solutions in Africa
November 2021
Criterion institute: Disrupting Fields: Addressing Power Dynamics in the Fields of Climate Finance and Gender Lens Investing
January 2021
WEDO, WWG-FFD, FEMNET and PACJA: A Feminist Agenda for People and Planet
2021
The Rallying Cry: Accelerate transformation: Invest in African women leading climate action
November 2022
Colliding Crises: How the climate crisis fuels gender-based violence
April 2025