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ACTION TOOLKIT WOMEN AND THE NET ZERO ECONOMY A TRANSITION TOOLKIT FOR BUSINESSES WITH GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS
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FOREWORD The toolkit builds on the WOW
programme’s recent work which
investigated how women are affected WHO IS THIS
TOOLKIT FOR?
WOMEN AND
disproportionately by climate change
across various supply chains and
This toolkit is primarily for
THE NET ZERO
worked with companies who are
Sustainability, Climate, and
identifying opportunities for achieving
Procurement professionals working
a gender-just transition to net zero.
ECONOMY It also draws on the Business
in multinational companies.
Its purpose is to stimulate action
Fights Poverty Climate Justice
on a gender-just transition to a
Programme, that explores how
net zero economy by sparking
C
business can put people at the heart
limate change and of climate action. The Climate Justice
collaboration across functions
inequality are the twin Framework, developed jointly with
and addressing environmental
and social impacts together.
challenges of our time. Harvard Kennedy School Corporate
Responsibility Initiative, demonstrates It focuses on action to reduce scope
The climate crisis is accelerating faster
On current estimates, how businesses can take action 3 emissions (known as all indirect
and is more severe than previously
reaching economic gender through their core operations, emissions across the upstream
anticipated. To avoid the destructive
philanthropic and social investments, and downstream ends of the value
consequences of a world warmed by parity will take 135 years; and policy advocacy. It focuses on chain). The tool looks particularly
more than 1.5°C, we must reduce net yet another generation of three areas of social impact: lives, at the upstream end, in emerging
carbon emissions by 45% from 2010 levels
women will not experience livelihoods and access to learning. and less developed economies.
by 2030, and decarbonise the global
economy to reach net zero by 2050.1 equality in their lifetime. We hope that this toolkit will help It is particularly relevant to sectors
spark new conversations to identify that rely on significant numbers
With just nine years left to avoid
and address the impacts of net of women in their supply chains
catastrophic and irreversible impacts
zero commitments on women (including agriculture and apparel)
of climate change, many companies
So, how can we transition to across the value chain, as well as and those sectors where women
are making climate action pledges
a net zero economy at the on how business can deliver on are being disproportionately ‘left
to reach net zero emissions in their
same time as economically both social and environmental behind’ (e.g. energy, extractives,
value chains by 2050 and earlier.
empowering more women? commitments in a more integrated technology and tech).
These net zero commitments are very way that creates value.
To answer this crucial question,
welcome, but come with significant
Business Fights Poverty and And, perhaps most importantly,
challenges. In particular, the need
the PwC team implementing it serves as a reminder to include
to reduce Scope 3 emissions raises
the WOW programme for the women in decision-making, to
tough questions for business, and the Cristina Bortes, Director PwC
UK Foreign, Commonwealth value their unique knowledge
resulting transition will impact many Sustainability & Climate Change
and Development Office have and solutions, and to partner with
of the most vulnerable women who Team | WOW Programme Director
collaborated to create this toolkit. them as agents of change.
work upstream in global supply chains.
Jane Nelson, Director, Corporate
There is an increasing consumer Through gender-just net zero
This will compound the significant Responsibility Initiative,
expectation and rising investor strategies, we can achieve essential
set-back for women’s economic Harvard Kennedy School
interest in both gender and climate environmental outcomes, protect
empowerment that resulted from
- such as the Gender and Climate the lives, livelihoods and learning of Zahid Torres-Rahman, CEO,
the COVID-19 pandemic. On current
Taskforce. The connection between women, and enable them to access Busines Fights Poverty
estimates, reaching economic
gender and climate is still relatively their fair share of opportunities
gender parity will take 135 years; yet
unexplored, but this nexus holds in the zero-carbon economy.
another generation of women will not
huge potential for positive social
experience equality in their lifetime.2
and environmental impact.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
WHY DO GENDER AND
CLIMATE MATTER?
TAKING ACTION BUSINESS
Business should address
WOMEN... IN THE SUPPLY CAN TAKE
gender and climate to:
CHAIN ACTION BY...
14 X ...more
Communicating
likely to die Increase impact
Women suffer Empowering women can
65 - 95% across internal siloes
disproportionate impacts of lead to improved results from Committing to holistic
climate change e.g. 14 times supply chain to boardroom. strategies that protect
more likely to die during For many companies 65-95%
of emissions come from scope
people and planet
environmental disasters
3 emissions, which are outside
their direct control and sit largely Collaborating inside and
Spur innovation in raw materials production and outside of their company
consumer use of products.
...of the agricultural
43 % in new technologies,
labour force products, services, processes Action on scope 3 emissions offers
and business models. opportunities for action at the upstream For example, companies can:
Women play a central end of the supply chain where women
(but often invisible) role Create decent green jobs for women
face the most vulnerabilities.
in global supply chains Enhance the education and
as producers, distributors skills of women workers
and entrepreneurs e.g. 43%
of the world’s agricultural Meet investor interest Source from women innovators and
labour force are women Raw Manufacturing entrepreneurs in the green economy
e.g. new gender and climate materials / Processing
funds from major public and Ensure women can overcome the
private organisations. digital divide and access digital
technology, products and services
70 % ...brand purchasing
Promote leadership opportunities
decisions
for women (from supply
Women play a key role chain to boardroom)
as consumers in the shift
Advocate to address social norms
to a net zero economy e.g.
that create barriers, e.g. land tenure
More than 70% of brand
purchasing decisions are End of life Distribution
made by women globally.
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SECTION 1
THE BUSINESS CASE
FOR A GENDER-JUST
NET ZERO STRATEGY
C limate change poses
serious material risk to
existing business models
The hardest challenge in
the transition to a net zero
and value chains. It has economy will be meeting
been estimated that, commitments on indirect or The good news is that
on current trajectory, scope 3 emissions, which often considering the twin
climate change could make up between 65 - 95% of challenges of net zero and
result in the loss of 11- a company’s total emissions. gender equality in tandem can
14% of global GDP by help to increase companies’
2050. It will be emerging As WOW have previously noted, impact; spur innovation;
economies - which Acknowledging these risks, there
‘the transition to net zero will have and meet investor interest.
differentiated impacts on an already
provide much of the raw is a global push to reach net zero
unequal workforce, and change will
emissions by 2050. Companies are
materials needed in global not be gender neutral’.6 The cost
joining countries, investors, cities
of gender inequality has already
supply chains - which and regions in making pledges to
The good news is that considering
been estimated at $28 trillion to the the twin challenges of net zero and
will be hit the hardest. 3 proactively reduce their emissions
global economy,7 and businesses gender equality in tandem can help
- the Race to Zero Campaign
are losing out on women’s talent, to increase companies’ impact, spur
now covers 25% of global CO2
leadership, and the potential increase innovation and meet investor interest.
emissions and over 50% of GDP.4
11-14% LOSS
in consumer spending power that Bringing together environmental and
For many companies, the hardest equality would bring (see Risks and social impact initiatives (rather than
challenge in the transition to a Opportunities, below). A transition having two separate ones) can create
net zero economy will be meeting to net zero that does not take into value whilst helping companies to
climate change could
commitments on indirect or scope account half the world’s population, manage material risks to business and
result in the loss of 11-14% 3 emissions, which often make up would be a tragic lost opportunity. seize new opportunities. Companies
of global GDP by 2050 between 65 - 95% of a company’s can also leverage various drivers of
total emissions.5 Proactively reducing change that are coinciding with the
emissions from products, services transition to net zero, including for
and investments will change how example, circular economic models
companies run their supply chains and digital transformation, to create a
and interact with their suppliers gender-just transition that works for
as well as their workforce. companies, women and the planet.
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HOW ADDRESSING THE TWIN THREE REASONS
CHALLENGES OF GENDER AND “We have a long term WHY BUSINESS
NET ZERO CAN CREATE VALUE vested interest in a resilient
SHOULD ADDRESS
GENDER AND
cocoa supply chain, and CLIMATE TOGETHER
Whilst efforts are now underway by and these two considerations
1
the World Economic Forum and 50 may be managed by separate
understand the potential of
Increase impact and
leading companies to use an agreed teams within organisations.8 This joining climate and gender. commercial return:
set of integrated ESG metrics, at inhibits the ability of companies Women are key players in Empowering women
present many companies use very to recognise risks and to identify
the cocoa communities, increases business impact from
different indicators to assess their opportunities for creating value the boardroom to supply chain.
Environmental and Social impacts, during the transition to net zero.9
and by including them in
e.g. women’s involvement in both
our climate interventions, adaptation and mitigation strategies
we know we can accelerate is a proven success factor in numerous
impacts. For example, settings from Colombia to Mali11
and businesses that perform well
in our agro afforestation
on gender diversity return greater
work we have ensured that profit.12 Bringing together gender and
women are leading and climate can also avoid unintended
owning the tree seedling consequences of climate action,
such as litigation and reputational
nurseries for replanting.”
damage from extensive job losses.
2
Cathy Pieters, Senior Director,
Sustainable Ingredients and Cocoa Spur innovation: Investing in
PLANET PROSPERITY PEOPLE Life, Mondelez International new technologies, products,
typical E measures Employment and wealth typical S measures services, processes and
generation e.g. decent business models can deliver solutions
Reduce GHG green jobs for women - Human Rights that build resilience in communities as
emissions such as climate-smart well as in the business. e.g. Between
Labour
farming or upskilling in 2017 - 2023 Decentralised Renewable
Nature loss standards
male-dominated sectors Energy (DRE) jobs in India, Kenya
Land use like mining, tech, energy. Diversity and and Nigeria are set to grow 100%,
inclusion 80% and 10% respectively. Women
Waste Innovation of better
play a significant role in sales and
products and services e.g. Health and
Recycling distribution of renewable energy.13
Safety
3
women entrepreneurs
Water design and distribute green Meet Investor interest: There
Skills and
products and services like is a rise in gender-lens, ESG
training
renewable energy and and green investing, e.g.
recycling networks. Community the 2X Gender and Climate Finance
Programmes Taskforce was launched by the 2X
Community and Social
Challenge and Gender Finance
vitality e.g. women are
Collaborative to ‘leverage the power of
responsible for 70%
gender-smart investments for climate
of brand purchasing
action.’ It is led by CDC, EBRD and EIB.
decisions and may be more
sustainable consumers.10
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RISKS VALUE
PROTECTION 14 OPPORTUNITIES VALUE
CREATION
The potential value of sustainable business opportunities
$1 7X
215 biggest global companies report almost is almost 7x the cost of realising them (US$311bn in costs,
TN MORE COST
US$1 trillion at risk from climate impacts, US$2.1 trillion in opportunities).21 Development Finance
AT RISK EFFECTIVE
with many expected to hit before 2025.15 Institutions have recognised the gender and climate risks and
opportunities including CDC, EIB, EBRD and the 2XChallenge.
$20 BN
LOSSES
The severe flooding in Thailand in 2011 affected the supply
chains of more than 14,500 companies, with total insured
losses estimated between US$15 billion and US$20 billion.16
$18 BN IN
GENDER
AWARE INVESTMENTS
By the end of 2020 there were over $18 billion in
assets managed by gender lens investment (GLI)
vehicles across public and private markets.22
54%
According to the 2020 BNP Paribas Global Entrepreneur Report,
FEMALE
$28
INEQUALITY COST
TN The cost of gender inequality has been estimated
at $28 trillion to the global economy.17
BUSINESS
REDUCING CARBON
54% of women entrepreneurs view a reduction in their carbon
footprint as their top measure of success in investment,
beyond financial returns. This is compared with 41% of men.
23
43% OF
AGRICULTURE
Women represent 43% of the global agricultural workforce
and suffer disproportionate agricultural impacts of
climate change including lower yields and incomes, less
$15 TN OF
CONSUMER
The female economy represents a market more than twice the
size of India and China combined. By 2028, female consumers
SPENDING BY
WORKFORCE time (e.g. it takes longer to collect scarcer wood for fuel) will control around $15 trillion of global consumer spending.24
WOMEN
ARE WOMEN and worsening health outcomes (due to heat and pests).18
21%
Some 80% of people displaced by climate change Companies in the top-quartile for gender diversity on executive
ARE
80% OF THOSE are estimated to be women, and women are 14 teams are 21% more likely to outperform on profitability
MORE
DISPLACED times more likely to die during environmental and 27% more likely to have superior value creation25
PROFITABLE
disasters due to their lack of access to warning
ARE WOMEN BUSINESSES
systems, mobility, and caring roles.19
The current global labour force participation rate for
49% WOMEN
VS. 75%
MEN IN GLOBAL
women is close to 49%. For men, it’s 75%. Women tend
to be over-represented in jobs that are perceived as
unskilled and ‘low value’, are more likely to be involved
6X LOWER
EMISSION
GROWTH RATE
According to Bloomberg research, firms with women making
up at least a third of directors have lower emissions growth
rates (0.6% compared with 3.5% for firms with no women on
WORKFORCE in the informal economy, and are less likely than men the board) and score better on environmental disclosures.26
to access skills and training for a green transition.20
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DRIVERS OF CHANGE The shift towards
Automation and
were able to undertake training.
Further skills training is planned to
A longside the risks and opportunities already mentioned,
various drivers of change are creating scenarios that
could have both positive and negative outcomes for
Technological Innovation
Increased automation and
amplify their gender impact.37
The energy sector faces perhaps
the greatest labour force
upgrades to less energy
women’s economic empowerment and climate change. intensive machinery can help disruption, with widespread
to significantly reduce energy job elimination in extractive
consumption. E.g. third party energy industries which must be addressed,
audits of suppliers carried out by alongside the impact on local and
The shift to more circular The shift away f rom
New Balance, through IFC’s Vietnam national economies in countries
economic models ‘eff iciency’ models of food
Programme, uncovered potential dependent on income from the
and raw material production
Recycling, resale, rental and annual energy savings of 14-31%.34 sector. Although most at-risk workers
to ‘resilient’ models
repair services could reduce in these sectors are male, women
emissions in the ‘fast fashion’ Automation may lead to job will also be impacted, e.g. through
There is now increasing
sector by 347 million metric tons losses, particularly for women reduced household incomes and the
adoption of nature-based
by 2030,27 and have the potential who are concentrated in labour- rise in gender-based violence that
solutions and regenerative agriculture,
to grow decent, skilled jobs. intensive work, and will require workers accompanies economic shocks.38
e.g. the ‘Primark Sustainable Cotton
to reskill. Due to the disproportionate
Programme’.29 In traditional and
New jobs may be concentrated domestic and care burden, women
indigenous societies, women
in consumer markets, and have less time for training. They
are often responsible for food
favour traditionally ‘male’ roles such as
production and are often keepers of
are also underrepresented in STEM Social safety nets
logistics, IT and distribution. Closure education: globally women make
valuable traditional knowledge.30 COVID -19 has seen the biggest
of garment factories in predominantly up just 3% of ICT students. 5% for
low- and middle-income countries growth in provision of social
Women may face increased mathematics and statistics, and
could significantly impact women, protection globally and will be
unpaid labour (e.g. increased 8% for engineering, manufacturing
who make up 59% of workers in essential for cushioning the impacts
weeding if pesticides are not and construction courses.35
Bangladesh’s garment sector.28 of climate change. Given that 80% of
used), and have lower access to
people displaced by climate change
capital and technical knowledge
are women, social protection plays
that may be required.31
Shift to renewable energy a huge role in improving women’s
resilience to climate-related shocks,
The decentralised renewable addresses barriers to economic
energy (DRE) sector is already
The shift towards participation and has positive
a significant employer in emerging effects on household productivity
digital solutions
economies,36 and offers potential and labour market participation.39
Digital advisory services to create new jobs for women in
bundled together with financial a sector that is traditionally male- An analysis of the Kenya Hunger
and other services have the potential dominated. CDC invested in a large Safety Net Programme40
to increase smallholders’ incomes upskilling project with their equity showed that, whilst unconditional cash
by 57% and productivity by 168%.32 investee, Ayana Renewable Power, payments enabled some households
a green energy infrastructure to invest in new business ventures,
Farmers in low- and middle- the poorest households spent the
company in India. CDC co-developed
income countries have unequal cash on immediate needs. Social
a programme to upskill local workers
access to digital technologies and protection must be complemented
using a gender lens, to ensure
knowledge, with women 8% less likely with other forms of support that help
the participation of women, for
than men to own a mobile phone and those in extreme poverty exit the
example by the provision of gender-
20% less likely to use mobile internet.33 cycle and build long-term prosperity.
sensitive facilities (e.g. transport,
toilets), which meant women
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SECTION 2 INTEGRATING GENDER EQUALITY
INTO THE UPSTREAM SUPPLY CHAIN
IDENTIFYING
As companies consider how to reduce their scope 3 emissions at each
stage of the product life cycle, there are opportunities to integrate
action on gender equality alongside their net zero transition:
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR ACTION IN Raw materials Manufacturing / Processing
THE SUPPLY CHAIN Primark Cotton Connect, Gujarat India:
Through training women farmers at organic
Miro Forestry is a sustainable forestry and
timber business with plantations in Ghana
farmer schools, the programme has seen a 44% and Sierra Leone. While the majority of
reduction in pesticides used, 10% drop in water jobs are currently on plantations, as the
T he level of influence palm oil, cocoa, and beef. Tesco
42 used and 200% increase in women’s incomes. business expands, most new jobs will be in
calculates that 90% of their emissions Primark is now expanding the programme to harvesting and processing. CDC supported
and control each 2 more countries and aims to reach 160,000 Miro Forestry to perform a gender workforce
fall within scope 3, with 47% of these
company has over its originating in raw materials and farmers by 2022 – thereby helping to meet their diagnostic and adopt a gender action plan.
global carbon and gender commitments.46 The diagnostic revealed key opportunities
carbon emissions is manufacture of products, and 42%
for Miro, which led the company to set a
classif ied by scopes: from consumer use.43 Both companies
target to increase the number of women in
have committed to achieve net zero
the workforce from 26 per cent to 40% over
across their value chains by 2050.
the next two years. Miro has also introduced
Both companies also have gender a series of specific initiatives to advance
equality strategies as part of their women’s employment and leadership,
SCOPE 1: direct emissions from
commitment to human rights including mentorship and upskilling.47
owned or controlled sources;
and sustainable development.44
SCOPE 2: indirect emissions from
According to the Science Based
the generation of purchased energy
Targets initiative, ‘The opportunity
electricity, heat and steam;
for companies to use their influence
SCOPE 3: all indirect emissions (not within value chains to act as catalysts
included in scope 2) that occur in for the deep decarbonization of the
the value chain of the reporting global economy is immense.’45
company, including both upstream End of life Distribution
There are some high emitting industries,
and downstream emissions.
for example cement, and steel, in In 2019 The Body Shop launched a Community Since 2011, Frontier Markets has saved
which Scope 3 emissions represent a Fair Trade recycled plastic programme. It sources 1.5 million tons of carbon through the
relatively small proportion of emissions. plastic from marginalised, waste pickers in India, distribution of 815,000 clean energy
This report focuses on the offering a fair price, steady income and better products in 2,000 communities. Its Women
Nevertheless, there will still be
upstream end of the value chain. working conditions in an informal sector that’s often Leadership Council ensures a strong
opportunities to create value by joining
volatile and discriminatory. With support from local gender-lens is applied. Its products are
Scope 3 emissions are the largest net zero strategies with company
partners, the Body Shop are also ensuring that estimated to have saved 406,000 hours from
source of a company’s emissions in commitments on gender equality,
the waste pickers are being trained in new skills increased productivity for its customers
most sectors, often accounting for especially with regard to diversifying
including urban gardening. Whilst the programme (65% of whom are women), whilst providing
between 65 - 95% of a company’s traditionally male-dominated
targets both male and female waste pickers, the decent incomes for its salesforce of over
total emissions.41 Mars, for example, workforces. This toolkit focuses on majority of beneficiaries of the programme have 10,000 rural women entrepreneurs.48
states that 80% of their emissions scope 3 emissions, but companies been women. In 2020 the programme saved 725
come from their agricultural value should also consider gender and MT of CO2 and by the end of 2021, the Body Shop
chains, primarily from raw materials climate action together as they reduce aim to purchase over 900 tonnes of recycled plastic
sourced in tropical countries, including their scope 1 and scope 2 emissions. for their shampoo and conditioner bottles
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SECTION 3 1. COMMUNICATE
ACROSS SILOS
GETTING PRACTICAL:
FIRST STEPS TOWARDS A Key questions for climate
and social colleagues to
What might be the unintended
consequences of our climate
GENDER-JUST NET ZERO discuss together reduction targets on women and
other vulnerable groups in our
STRATEGY
supply chain? (e.g. nearshoring
garment factories to reduce
How do we create carbon footprint but job losses
for Asian garment workers)
procurement policies that
T o maximise their impact on net zero and gender
equality, businesses must communicate
across silos; commit to an ambitious strategy;
align our gender and
climate commitments?
How do we create procurement
policies that align our gender
and climate commitments? E.g.
Supply chain finance incentives?49
and collaborate for action across core
business operations, philanthropic and social What are the policy changes that
businesses can take to governments
investment and through policy advocacy. Does our climate strategy speak and regulators, to help unlock
to our social strategy, and if not, the wide-spread adoption of
how can we better align them? gender-just net zero strategies?
Can this alignment help us meet
our ESG and overall business
purpose more effectively and
avoid unintended consequences?
Who else in our company do
What are the policy changes
we need to engage with e.g. that businesses can take to
procurement and suppliers? governments and regulators,
“Women are vital to the growth of renewable
What do we know about the to help unlock the wide-
energy in emerging markets - especially
profile of our workforce in our spread adoption of net zero
decentralized renewables (DRE) like rooftop supply chain – is any of our
gender-just strategies?
solar and mini-grids. Women are 50 percent data gender-disaggregated?
of the population of energy poor countries, How shall we develop a social
but disproportionately affected by the lack dialogue with women in our
of clean, reliable and affordable power. supply chain to find solutions
to reduce our emissions and
Women are important distributors and
create circular models?
sales agents for DRE, and are also critical
decision-makers and energy consumers.” Where are the opportunities to
include women in our climate
Kristina Skierka, CEO, Power for All commitments – upskilling,
tech transfer, sourcing from
women-owned enterprises
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2. COMMITTO AN AMBITIOUS HOW BRANDS ARE MOVING TOWARDS ACTION
ON GENDER AND CLIMATE:
GENDER-JUST NET ZERO STRATEGY
Strategies for ESG can be located on an chains in a way that both protects PRIMARK
impact spectrum, depending on the and creates value. Furthermore,
Primark’s new holistic sustainability strategy, Primark Cares, commits
level of commitment and the extent the success of any strategy is
them to reduce carbon emissions by half across the value chain by 2030
to which such strategies form an dependent on strong commitment
and simultaneously commits to improving people’s lives through equal
integral part of core business activities. from leadership, supportive
opportunities for women and provision of a living wage for workers
The most impactful strategies are company structures and culture,
in their supply chain. It also commits them to shift towards a more
those which take a holistic view, and the development of relevant
circular model of production through recycling.52 Primark recognise
embedding action on gender and KPIs and incentives for action.50
the potential to become a more sustainable business by supporting
climate into core business and supply
gender equality and contributing to women’s empowerment.53
MOVING YOUR COMPANY CLOSER MARS
TO A GENDER-JUST NET ZERO STRATEGY
Mars has committed to reducing their total GHG emissions across
the full value chain by 27% by 2025 and by 67% by 2050, from 2015
Trailing Basic Advanced/leading levels. In the short term, the focus is on preventing deforestation
and forest degradation related to sourcing raw materials; increasing
ALIGN No Net Zero pledges Separate net zero Holistic strategy to achieve net carbon sequestration and improving agricultural practices.54 In a
STRATEGY e.g. not signatory of strategy and separate zero and achieve equality central separate gender strategy, Full Potential Platform, it states ‘where
Race to Net Zero. sustainability strategy. to core business and purpose we source raw materials, we’re investing with a range of partners in
including across scope 3.
No sustainability long-term approaches to bolster women’s economic empowerment
plan that includes and access to opportunity’. This includes ‘programmes with
gender commitments partners in cocoa, shea, rice, mint and vanilla supply chains’.55
e.g. UN Women
Empowerment
Principles (WEP’s).
MAP No awareness of Track where scope Strategy to address Scope
L’ORÉAL
OPPORTUNITIES indirect scope 3 3 emissions exist in 3 emissions and identify
L’Oréal has made both gender and climate integral to its overall business
AND RISKS emissions and how the supply chain. opportunities to mitigate
strategy, this includes women’s leadership in the company - women
to tackle them. risks and include women and
Track where the other vulnerable groups in account for 46% of the Board and 58% of L’Oréal’s brands are headed by
No awareness of biggest impacts will reducing emissions. Where full women; and a consistent effort to drastically reduce its CO2 emissions
workforce and be on vulnerable decarbonisation is not possible, - L’Oréal reduced its CO2 emissions in 2020 by 81% in absolute terms
community profiles people including consider carbon credits, e.g. W+.51 from a 2005 baseline while the Group’s production volume rose by
in the supply chain. women in the
supply chain. Strategy informed by a process
29%. More recently L’Oréal decided to tackle these two issues jointly.
of social dialogue with impacted Women in their supply chain that produce raw materials of plant
women and vulnerable groups. origin benefit from receiving mitigation and adaptation strategies
to help limit the impacts of climate change on harvests and income.
INVESTMENT No investment for Philanthropic / Core business integrates For example, sustainable sourcing of shea butter from Burkina Faso
climate change Foundation funds costs and creates value from
benefits up to 35,000 women. L’Oréal also supports the Women4Climate
or equality from for community including women in net zero.
Initiative which identifies and empowers female climate leaders in
philanthropic funding projects that tackle
. cities through an international mentorship scheme, and the She Grows
or core business. climate change and
gender equality the Future programme, which seeks to strengthen women farmers’
in supply chain. resilience to climate change in rural areas across the globe.5620 ACTION TOOLKIT | WOMEN AND THE NET ZERO ECONOMY 21
3. COLLABORATE
Key CHALLENGES OPPORTUNITIES for
for business Business Action 61
There remains a lack of gender-
disaggregated data and
Work towards gender-
disaggregated data to identify FOR ACTION
transparency regarding who women in value chains who A GENDER-JUST CLIMATE FRAMEWORK
is working in global supply are most impacted by the
chains. Consider using tools like transition to net zero.
Sedex’s Gender Data Report
Create decent green The framework demonstrates how
and conducting mappings
jobs for women. business can act at three levels
with other partners.57
Source from women
The Business Fights Poverty on climate justice, through:
Few companies are currently Climate Justice Framework
innovators and entrepreneurs
required to align their ESG
reporting, and there are a lack
in the green economy. sets out how companies
of holistic reporting frameworks
to use. The WEF ‘Metrics for
Stakeholder Capitalism’ and the
58
Enhance the education and
skills of women workers to
ensure equality of opportunity
can put people at the
heart of climate action, 1.CORE BUSINESS
CAPABILITIES AND
OPERATIONS;
and better ensure a more
World Benchmarking Alliance’s in the green transition.
equitable transition
2.
new ‘Just Transition Indicators’59 PHILANTHROPY AND
Ensure women can overcome the
provide a useful place to start. SOCIAL INVESTMENTS;
digital divide and access digital
Purpose-driven companies require technology, products and services. AND
leadership from the top combined The Business Fights Poverty Climate
3.
Promote leadership opportunities ENGAGEMENT IN
with a concerted shift in cultures Justice Framework62 sets out how
for women (from supply
and behaviours in all departments. companies can put people at the POLICY DIALOGUE
chain to boardroom).
heart of climate action, and better AND STRENGTHENING
All initiatives aimed at empowering
Advocate to address social norms ensure a more equitable transition INSTITUTIONS.
women need to engage men as
that create barriers for women e.g. that both reduces the risks of climate
allies for enhanced impact. See,
unpaid domestic care, gender- change for the most vulnerable
for example the report ‘Engaging
based violence, wage gaps and people and includes them in
Men as Allies for Gender Equality
rights to land and natural resources. access to new opportunities.
Across the Value Chain’ by Business
Fights Poverty and ABInBev.60 It is intended to spark a conversation
about the actions companies can take,
through collaboration across internal
functions and in partnership with
peers, governments and civil society.
Few companies are currently
required to align their ESG
reporting and there are a
lack of holistic reporting
frameworks to use.22 ACTION TOOLKIT | WOMEN AND THE NET ZERO ECONOMY 23
ACTIONS
The table below adapts the Climate Justice Framework,
LIVES LIVELIHOODS LEARNING
specifically for those companies wishing to consider
HEALTH AND SAFETY JOBS AND INCOMES EDUCATION & SKILLS
gender equality in their net zero strategies.63
Ensure gender-mainstreaming in Invest in community regeneration Support programmes to promote
PHILANTHROPY
Explore ways to leverage corporate
philanthropy, employee engagement
community projects that enhance and economic diversification in the participation of women,
food security and water access, those areas impacted by a move people from minority backgrounds
LIVES LIVELIHOODS LEARNING including through climate resilient away from carbon-intensive and vulnerable communities
HEALTH AND SAFETY JOBS AND INCOMES EDUCATION & SKILLS agricultural practices, projects to industries, with a focus on low-paid in climate decision making.
tackle food waste and improve and informal women workers.
Support efforts to integrate climate
logistics and support for community
justice into education programmes
food banks and water projects.
for schools and universities.
Identify women and other vulnerable Support women’s economic Understand the skills needed
CORE BUSINESS
Harness policies, processes, products, services, technologies,
financing mechanisms or business models.
groups among employees and resilience across the value chain, for a low carbon transition and
across the value chain, to mitigate including through, for example, support reskilling for women
and quickly respond to health increasing women’s inclusion in to access new green jobs and
and safety risks posed by climatic the workforce, procurement from enterprise opportunities.
events, e.g. increasing heat levels women-led enterprises; or for
Support awareness and knowledge
in factories. Share outputs of financial institutions, gender-lens
of vulnerable communities -
these exercises with other known investing in women entrepreneurs
including among smallholder farmer
companies using the same suppliers. supporting green growth.
communities - by providing access to
Support actions to prevent gender- Understand differential impacts of climate information and knowledge.
based violence and promote gender climate commitments, such as net
Incubate and invest in ideas and LIVES LIVELIHOODS LEARNING
equality across the value chain. zero, on women workers. Through
dialogue with and involvement of
solutions generated by women HEALTH AND SAFETY JOBS AND INCOMES EDUCATION & SKILLS
Use brands and marketing to workers/vulnerable communities.
workers (including e.g. through social
promote consumer awareness
dialogue with unions), or impact
Work with employees, communities,
of gender and climate justice
assessments and surveys and plan
suppliers, local communities,
issues among employees,
strategies for retention, redeployment Urge investors and benchmarking Support systems strengthening, Engage in policy dialogue,
POLICY
Engage in policy dialogue, awareness raising
and institution strengthening partnerships
customers and other stakeholders to
suppliers, local communities,
and new job creation or compensation standard-setters to require reporting including for women workers and awareness raising and partnerships
build capacity to optimise women’s
consumers and peer companies.
and early retirement, for people most on E&S together and not in silos e.g. businesses. E.g. strengthening land to achieve more gender-equal
participation in climate decision
likely to be vulnerable to job loss. advocate for social equity measures and resource rights, ending child access to STEM education
Partner with others, e.g. ICT making at the company level.
companies, to improve reach to be included in future iterations and forced marriage and other and other skills that support
In scaling up renewable energy, create
Help close the digital divide of the Taskforce on Climate-related barriers to women’s participation transition to a green economy.
and protect communications
opportunities for women and small
by increasing women’s Financial Disclosures (TCFD) in the labor force. Also consider
infrastructure in vulnerable
enterprises to access jobs, economic Advocate to governments and
access to internet and digital reporting requirements following influencing policies around climate-
communities susceptible to
opportunities and energy services. suppliers for the transition to
learning platforms. their mandatory rollout in 2022. related migration and relocation.
extreme weather, and invest
digital wage payment systems and
in early warning systems. Develop and/or increase accessibility
Partner with skills providers to deliver Advocate for government policies other digital financial inclusion
to essential and affordable products
climate-related content to vulnerable that support those negatively options that provide women with
and services to support livelihoods
consumers, including women. impacted by a low-carbon a step into digital economies.
in the face of climatic events (eg
transition, including through e.g. payment technologies
insurance), and access to loans Ensure board members have
targeted social protection, introduced by Mastercard in
and finance by loosening usage or the skills necessary to assess and
job creation and community Uganda, Egypt and Indonesia.64
financing terms, offering flexible plan for climate action, including
regeneration programmes.
refund policies and waiving late fees. through a gender-just lens.
Invest in the resilience of women
smallholder farmers in supply chains,
including access to climate smart
inputs and insurance. Promote
climate-smart practices that
deliver regenerative outcomes.24 ACTION TOOLKIT | WOMEN AND THE NET ZERO ECONOMY 25
Future Cities Cities programme is to support
CORE and the Verified Carbon Standard
Mexico urban development in Mexico’s
sets out to certify projects that
BUSINESS cities that results in safer, resilient
benefit both climate and women’s is an alliance led by PwC, supporting and more sustainable, climate-
empowerment. Qualifying projects the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth
Symrise friendly mobility services for citizens,
then allow for the sale of W+ labelled and Development Office (FCDO) particularly for women and girls.
Partnered to create NILAMPEDIA, carbon credits, which can be sold in delivering a flagship £10 million
an offline Facebook platform that to individuals, organisations and Prosperity Fund programme in
enables women in Indonesia to access investors to finance impactful Mexico. The objective of the Future
useful information on sustainable programmes that benefit women.
farming whenever they can access
a phone, regardless of whether Mondelez
they have connectivity at that
CARE and Global Forest Watch
time. This approach is particularly
partner on the Cocoa Life programme,
useful in communities in which
men are the gatekeepers/primary
to boost cocoa farmers’ resilience
PHILANTHROPY/ Fashion
to climate change. They have
owners of mobile technology.
mapped over 167,790 farms across
SOCIAL Makes Change
Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Indonesia, The
INVESTMENT is a project of Rockefella Philanthropy
Ethical Tea Dominican Republic and Brazil, Advisors, which connects brands,
Partnership to identify at-risk areas. Cocoa Life Root Capital consumers and stakeholders in
centres women’s empowerment, the fashion industry to deliver
partners with GIZ and Kenya Tea introduced Gender Equity Grants
and includes reforestation, women’s empowerment and climate
Development Agency (KTDA), which to help build gender equity and
sustainable farming, Community action together. Donations from
organises and supports 650,000 tea climate resilience in small agricultural
Action Plans, access to VSLAs, and brands, customers and renewable
farmers, to provide gender-responsive businesses in Mexico, Honduras
action on gender-based violence. energy suppliers support women’s
training on climate-smart agriculture. and Guatemala. Working with
empowerment programmes, such
Their climate change programmes local cooperatives, they developed
as Empower@Work Collaborative,
include support for reforestation, The InsuResilience tailored initiatives specific to local
a joint initiative of United Nations
reducing tea factories’ carbon Investment Fund challenges. They also helped
ILO-IFC Better Work, BSR
emissions, women-run tea nurseries cooperatives to identify the
Set up by KfW, the German HERproject, CARE International,
growing climate-resilient strains of most vulnerable women in their
Development Bank, is a public-private and Gap Inc.’s P.A.C.E. program.
tea, women’s empowerment and membership and supported them to
partnership that aims to strengthen
training on gender-based violence. introduce climate-smart practices.
the resilience of low-income
households and MSMEs in developing
The W+ Standard countries to extreme weather African Women in
events and natural disasters - which Agricultural Research and
developed by WOCAN quantifies
women’s social and economic disproportionately impact women. It Development (AWARD)
empowerment arising from does this by increasing the availability
strengthens gender-responsive
climate action projects such as of micro-loans and insurance products
agricultural research and innovation
the introduction of biogas stoves to vulnerable populations, factoring
in Africa. It grows the capabilities
or tree planting. There has been gender into its decision-making.
of individual scientists, works with
growing interest from businesses research institutions to embed
and investors in the co-benefits of gender-responsiveness in policy and
investing in climate projects, and practice, and builds a supportive
a new collaboration between W+ enabling environment by increasing
awareness of the need for and value
of gender-responsive approaches.26 ACTION TOOLKIT | WOMEN AND THE NET ZERO ECONOMY 27
RESOURCES
Climate Justice
Climate Justice Framework.
POLICY Business Fights Poverty, Harvard ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Kennedy School Corporate Social
Women and Net Zero: whilst recognising the
Responsibility Initiative, Change
This report was written by Alice Allan and Annabel
Clean Energy intersecting challenges of Beales, Business Fights Poverty, with regular input
Women and the Net Zero by Degrees. A framework showing
Council caring responsibilities and and advice from Cristina Bortes, Enda Doherty
Economy: A briefing on how business can put people
Australia’s gender based violence.
at the heart of climate action.
and Nicole Linney at PWC. We would like to thank
changes in garment, the following individuals for their insights: Jane
Women in Renewables Initiative agricultural and energy Empowering Indigenous
Yale Experts Explain Environmental Nelson, Harvard Kennedy School Corporate Social
aims to enhance the role of supply chains. UKAID/WOW Women to Integrate
Justice. Yale University. Researchers Responsibility Initiative; Marcel Korth, Anglo
women in the renewables Programme. Assessment of Traditional Knowledge and
discuss the link between social American; Sam Ludlow-Taylor and Amy Morris,
sector. It provides mentoring challenges and opportunities Practices in Climate Action.
justice and environmental health. Waitrose; Sara Mason, Farmer Income Lab; Harriet
and scholarships for individuals, facing different sectors. Climate Investment Funds.
Talbot, Unilever; María José Prado Valdés, CEMEX;
as well as advocacy initiatives
Women’s Economic Good Agricultural Practices Finance and Investment Charlotte Hugman and Natasha Zervudachi, World
including a leaders’ pledge to act
Empowerment and Climate (GAP) Training. Farm Benchmarking Alliance. We are grateful to the
on inclusion and promote women’s Gender & Climate Investment: A
Change: A Primer. UKAID/ Africa. These include UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development
voices and achievements. Strategy for Unlocking a Sustainable
WOW Programme. Overview conservation and climate- Office (FCDO) for their funding and support via the
Future. A detailed overview for Work and Opportunities for Women Programme.
of current debates and smart agriculture for
We Mean Business women farmers.
investors in multiple sectors, that
options for policy makers. The Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW)
Coalition are considering how to invest in
Climate and Women: The gender-smart climate initiatives. programme is the UK Government’s flagship
recently delivered an open letter Indicators and women’s economic empowerment programme.
Business Case for Action.
from over 600 businesses calling Measurement Ways to Gender Smart Climate The objective of WOW is that women have
BSR. A summary of why
on G20 leaders to take decisive Finance: Agriculture, Food and access to improved economic opportunities
business should act. Just Transition Indicators.
action to limit global temperature Forestry. 2X Climate Finance through business interventions in supply chains
World Benchmarking Taskforce. A sector-specific
rise to 1.5ºC, ahead of COP26. It Women Leading Climate and economic development programmes. The
Alliance. New indicators deep-dive for investors (further
has also published research that Action: A World Within five-year programme aims to enhance the
launched in 2021 and assessed sector guidance forthcoming).
aggregates findings from over Reach. The Women’s Forum economic empowerment of 300,000 women
against 180 companies
2000 companies’ submissions to for the Economy and Society, working in global value chains. It will achieve this
(report forthcoming).
WEP’s Gender Gap Analysis Tool, supported by L’Oreal and Scope 3 Resources: goal by supporting businesses, organisations
highlighting actions that will BNP Paribas. An overview Measuring Stakeholder and programmes that are ready and willing
Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
promote gender-equal workplaces. of why business should Capitalism: Towards to act on women’s economic empowerment;
Carbon Trust, World Resources
consider addressing the Common Metrics and enabling players across the supply chain
Institute and WCBSD. Standards,
The Climate Ambition twin challenges of gender Consistent Reporting of ecosystem to drive change; and influencing
guidance, tools and training for
Support Alliance and climate, including Sustainable Value Creation. the UK and global agenda on women’s
business and government to
future scenarios. World Economic Forum.
(CASA) measure and manage climate-
economic empowerment. WOW is delivered
WEF’s definition of the four by a consortium of global experts on women’s
Women in Cotton. Cotton warning emissions, including
supports a network of women pillars needed for holistic ESG economic empowerment research, programme
Connect. A summary of the Scope 3 Calculation Guidance.
negotiators from climate- reporting; people, planet, design, and delivery – including PwC, BSR, CARE
impacts of climate change
vulnerable countries who are prosperity and principles WCBSD’s Value Chain Carbon International and Social Development Direct.
on the lives of women
underrepresented in climate for governance. Now Transparency Pathfinder: Enabling
cotton farmers in India.
negotiations, as well as addressing adopted by 50 companies. decarbonization through Scope
the UNFCCC gender action plan. Action Aid POWER Learning 3 emissions transparency.
Hub. A learning tool to help WBCSD. Introduces a new
organisations consider initiative to decarbonize industry
how to economically through data transparency.
empower rural women28 ACTION TOOLKIT | WOMEN AND THE NET ZERO ECONOMY 29
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