Collecting gender disaggregated impact metrics from your climate finance is seen as best practice when investing at the gender climate finance nexus. Examples of indicators at the nexus of gender-smart climate finance include:

• Number of people supported to cope with the effects of climate change, disaggregated by sex

• Number of people with improved access to clean energy, disaggregated by sex

• Number of people whose resilience has been improved, disaggregated by sex

• Number of green jobs created, disaggregated by sex

Some frameworks exist to specifically measure the nexus between gender and environmental impact, such as that developed by the UNEP. UNEP’s proposed 18 gender-environment indicators focus on various topics such as the right to land, natural resources and biodiversity; access to food, energy, water and sanitation; climate change, sustainable production and consumption, and health; and the number of women in environmental decision making at all levels. 

This section contains examples of gender metrics that investors may wish to collect for their gender-smart climate investments across various sectors. Investors can require investees to report on the gender metrics given in this section, which can help to identify where impact on the gender and climate nexus is progressing or being missed. In some cases, reporting on gender and climate metrics may be essential to the structure of the deal. Investors should include requirements for investees to report, as a minimum, those criteria used to qualify the investment as 2X criteria and climate-finance aligned.