A warming world is leading to new challenges for communities and countries around the globe. The significant impacts of climate change on global health, and on women and girls, are well-documented. Yet despite the evidence, funding for climate responses that focus on health or gender remains relatively low. In the rare instances where climate finance provides funds to improve health services, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services—which are critical to women’s full participation in society and decisionmaking—are largely neglected.

In a new policy brief, “Pioneering Solutions: Climate Finance, Gender Equity, and Sexual and Reproductive Health Services” the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Maternal Health Initiative explore the relationships between climate finance, gender equality, and sexual and reproductive health, and identify opportunities for including SRH services in climate financing mechanisms and projects.