Women Leaders in Finance: Global Platform
a Proposal for a Collaboration
With the intensifying climate emergency and the substantial backsliding in the achievement of the 2030 Agenda, ensuring reliable and long-term financing for the just and green energy transition in developing countries has become an urgent task. This will require mobilization of stakeholders across different sectors and at different levels, as well as effective reforms of the international financial architecture to broaden developing country access to capital, reduce its cost and remove barriers, and ensure that resources flow to those who need it most.
The Global Women in Finance Leaders Platform (GWFLP) is promoted by an alliance of top women leaders in Public and Private Finance, from the Global South alied with the Global North, who join top women leaders from the UN, a global platform of effective partnerships of skills, expertise, and financial resources. The overall objective of the initiative is to promote a virtuous circle of collaboration and solidarity, to ensure reliable financing of Agenda 2030 as well as the Just Transition, as a transversal requisite to other transitions, with particular attention to equality in gender and related dimensions of equity.
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GWFLP is a safe and structured platform-space to promote and support women leaders in finance and women-led financial solutions for ensure reliable financing in sustainable development and just transition financing and investments guided by new sustainable taxonomies aimed at mobilizing capital at scale, both public and private. The initiative also aims to recognize, strengthen, promote and increase the visibility of women leaders and decision-makers in finance, showcasing the effectiveness and results of their financing actions and their influence in the financing system. GWFLP in co-construction believes that given the intensifying climate emergency and the backsliding in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new leadership profile is needed to enable and create the structural conditions to accelerate and implement sustainable development and the just transition with Gender Equity. The network also aims to inspire other leaders in finance in the same direction.
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The G W F L P is joining forces with UN Women's top Leaders to form a network of women financial decision-makers across various sectors and throughout the financing/investment value chain to reflect, act and influence the global financial i n f r as t ru c t u r e . This entails ensuring the meaningful presence and participation of w o m e n at the table in all finance-related spheres: networking, negotiation, regulation, and decision-making on both public and private finance. It will foster female leaders committed to accelerate and ensure finance and investment for sustainable development and the just transition, while ensuring that no one is left behind – including women – and leveraging all equities.
Finance for Just and Green Energy Transition
a LAB to accelerate and scale up energy transition
The FJGET (Finance for Just and Green Energy Transition) is an initiative aimed at mobilizing and channeling large-scale capital to promote powershoring in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the goal of contributing to a just and green energy transition. Recognizing the region's comparative advantage in renewable resources and essential raw materials, FJGET seeks to create an enabling environment for sustainable investments that align economic development with net-zero carbon targets, thereby contributing to a more sustainable economy.
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FJGET is a Joint Initiative led by organized civil society and multilateral and national development banks, in conjunction with the UN.
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FJGET's main areas of action are divided into two complementary tracks. The first track focuses on building a technical and conceptual foundation, providing the basis for "Just" and "Green" investment parameters. This includes developing guidelines and criteria for project selection, as well as creating a conceptual framework for the powershoring strategy in the region and a project accreditation structure. This effort aims to ensure that investments are directed towards initiatives that meet sustainability and social justice criteria, promoting a broad and lasting positive impact.
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The second track of action concentrates on creating a LAB, an investment environment. This track is dedicated to identifying and proposing enabling factors, divided into three main categories: financial architecture, regulation, and de-risking. Additionally, FJGET promotes the joint assessment of investment opportunities and the articulation of co-investment agreements, facilitating the efficient mobilization and allocation of financial resources.