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The 'Playbook for Integrating Gender into Climate Finance Vehicles' provides a strategic framework for embedding gender considerations into climate finance instruments to improve both social equity and financial performance. It argues that women are disproportionately affected by climate change but are also key drivers of mitigation and adaptation, noting that gender-diverse leadership and investing teams often yield better environmental and financial outcomes. The guide outlines a four-step process—Gender Analysis, Gender Strategy, Gender Action Plan, and Monitoring and Evaluation—to move climate finance from being gender-biased or unaware to being gender-responsive or transformative.

This action brief by the Climate Policy Initiative outlines opportunities for development finance institutions (DFIs) and multilateral development banks (MDBs) to integrate a dual gender-nature lens into their investment processes to support biodiversity goals and gender equality.