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CONCLUSION
Women play an important role in mitigating climate and environmental change and contributing to community resilience. But in many developing and emerging economies, sociocultural norms and barriers limit women’s participation in decisionmaking, which in turn, leads to gender considerations often being disregarded in climate and environmental policies. This gender disregard is further exacerbated by limited access to resources thus, leaving women more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation. Financial inclusion can contribute to addressing both social issues by Fruit sellers on the streets of Kathmandu, Nepal. (hadynyah/iStock)
mainstreaming gender in resilience building and lowcarbon development efforts for those at the bottom of the economic pyramid. AFI is well-positioned to support members seeking to improve their technical knowledge and capacity to advance gender-inclusive green finance. AFI’s efforts should focus on ensuring members thoroughly understand the intersection between gender, financial inclusion and environmental change. Including gender concerns in IGF policies and regulations and ensuring climate and environmental concerns are an integral part of any gender and financial inclusion policy and regulation, can ensure that this intersection is highlighted from the outset and incorporates both a green and gender perspective.
