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An Introduction to Climate and Gender Investing (A)

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Merging gender and climate investment agendas has the power to activate untapped potential in both spheres - delivering returns with outsized impacts for women and the world. This climate and gender investing foundations session explored what it means to bring gender and climate together from an investment perspective, and how to make the case for this approach with the available data and case studies.

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Speakers
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Dr Katharine Wilkinson

Dr. Katharine Wilkinson is an author, strategist, teacher and one of 15 “women who will save the world,” according to Time magazine.” Her books on climate include the best-selling anthology “All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis”; “The Drawdown Review: Climate Solutions for a New Decade”; the New York Times best seller “Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming”; and “Between God & Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change.” A former Rhodes scholar, she is co-founder of The All We Can Save Project, in support of women leading on climate, and co-host of the podcast “A Matter of Degrees.”

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Ellen Martin

Ellen Martin is Circulate Capital's Chief Impact Officer. In her role, Ellen is responsible for driving impact and insights for Circulate Capital and its affiliated nonprofit, The Circulate Initiative, and providing shared evaluation, research, analysis and strategy services across the organisations. As a member of each organisation’s leadership team, Ellen is focused on ensuring collective strategies, assets, and relationships deliver impact as Circulate Capital grows.

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Sophie Lambin

Sophie is the Founder and CEO of Kite Insights. Kite Insights is a research and communications agency focused on helping organisations deliver impact on the pressing social, economic and environmental issues of our time

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Eleanor Keppelman

Eleanor Keppelman is a Director on the Social Enterprise Finance Team at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). In her role, Ms. Keppelman originates, structures, negotiates and underwrites debt investments to social enterprises, financial institutions and impact funds operating in low and lower middle-income countries. She is also part of the DFC team implementing the agency’s 2X Women’s Initiative. Ms. Keppelman lives in Taipei, Taiwan with her husband and two children.

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Suzanne Biegel

Suzanne is founder of Catalyst at Large Ltd and is a globally-recognised expert on gender-smart investing.

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Eva Bernard

Eva is Principal at the European Bank for Reconstruction on Development covering the Gender and Climate Action agenda. She is leading the work on gender and inclusion with the Climate funds, and work to promote economic inclusion in green cities and sustainable infrastructure, equal access to green jobs in the renewable energy sector, and to climate finance. She is managing and overseeing a portfolio of gender activities mainstreamed in climate projects in Eastern Europe, Asia and Northern Africa, and is building internal capacity on gender and climate change issues within the EBRD.

Earlier Event: April 21
GLI: An Introduction (B)
Later Event: April 28
An Introduction to Climate and Gender Investing (B)