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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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.”
Shally Shanker is the founder and managing partner of AiiM Partners, which invests in businesses leveraging technology to address climate change and generate measurable social, environmental, and financial returns. The AiiM team, comprising investors, entrepreneurs, operators, and researchers, has invested in companies that have benefitted 3 million people worldwide with 50 percent of the assets invested in women founders and CEOs.
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