Envisioning Fair Futures

Gender equality, climate action and equitable finance

September 2023

Investments reflect our belief in the future. As investors, we deploy capital to assets and activities that they believe will generate returns over time. We have the power to choose where, how our capital is allocated. What if we can utilise this power to actively shape the future in which our investments happen? What does that future look like?

This handbook sketches out four hypothetical but plausible (or even in-motion) futures, grounded in a gender and climate lens and political factors, to help investors explore how we might respond to future scenarios. Through this, we can envision and understand the power, potential and opportunity of the decisions we make today. 

These futures are meant to spark investor imagination, facilitate the visualisation of how a future scenario might impact current and future investment context, and encourage reflection on the co-dependence between gender and climate finance.