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Unlocking Financial Resilience through Policy for Women in a Changing Climate

Climate change disproportionately impacts women. Climate impacts are pushing women into poverty, creating health complications for women, and devastating the economic health of their businesses and communities. With nearly one billion women excluded from formal financial services, and 753 million women in the most climate-vulnerable regions lacking adequate financial services,

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November 12, 2024
Research & Perspectives

A Vital Response to Climate Change: Financial Inclusion for Women 

Climate Change is hitting hard, and women are bearing the brunt of it, facing increased economic hardship, health crisis, and displacement.   Worse still, an increased number of women – 880 million – don’t have any way of receiving emergency relief payments in case of a climate crisis because they

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September 24, 2024
Products & Solutions

How to insure unqualified or uninterested customers? Ask insurance supervisors in Belize and Ghana

by Elizabeth Ingerfield, Manager, Leadership & Diversity Programs In a world of greater unpredictability and climate impacts, insurance can be a challenging product to deploy. Forward-thinking regulators, policymakers, and supervisors are changing their tactics, ensuring insurance can be a tool for inclusion. In a recent event bringing together alumni from

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June 20, 2024
Research & Perspectives

Insights for Action: Building Rural Women’s Financial Resilience towards Climate Change

Women’s engagement with financial services leads to their greater economic empowerment, including greater control over financial decisions and increased independence. However, three-quarters of the world’s women are still excluded from financial services. In Indonesia, rural women are among the most financially unserved and underserved populations. Women alone make up 63.8%

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May 24, 2024
Research & Perspectives

Climate Change & Women’s Financial Inclusion

Scroll down to download the research agenda. You can also find our latest insights in our 2024 report, Finance, Climate, and Gender: Empowering Women Agents of Change. By 2050, climate change effects are expected to cause the internal displacement of 216 million people (IOM, 2023); sea level rise of multiple

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September 15, 2023
Research & Perspectives

Climate change has a disproportionate impact on low-income women. Here’s how financial institutions can change that.

By Nithya Sharma (Women’s World Banking); Carolanne Boughton, and Sasha Polikarpova (Baringa) The impact of climate change is reverberating around the world, with increasing frequency and severity of weather events, rising temperatures, and loss of biodiversity. While multilateral governance bodies including the United Nations emphasize that the world’s wealthiest countries,

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October 18, 2022

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