Financing the Frontline: Women-Led Solutions for the Climate Crisis: Blueprint Launch - With Mastercard, CARE, and Project Dandelion
Climate finance is overlooking one of its biggest growth opportunities.
The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, CARE, Project Dandelion, and Futerra invite you to the exclusive launch of Financing the Frontline: Women-Led Solutions for the Climate Crisis – a blueprint mapping ten high-impact, investment-ready solutions led by women entrepreneurs, where finance has yet to catch up with the opportunity.
Location: Somerset House – part of Solutions House
Date: Thursday, 25 June during London Climate Action Week
Timing: 12:00 - 1:00pm
Speakers and more details to follow soon.
About the blueprint and this session:
Some of the most promising climate investment opportunities are already being built by women-led micro and small businesses — but capital is still lagging where performance is already emerging. Capital continues to flow most easily to those able to navigate complex systems, often larger enterprises with the resources to apply, while women running micro and small businesses, many already delivering climate-relevant solutions, remain underfinanced. The result is a missed opportunity not only for livelihoods and communities, but for economic returns and scalable impact.
From waste recovery cooperatives generating contracted municipal revenue, to PAYGo solar distributors outperforming traditional loan portfolios, to water kiosk operators delivering 4x returns on investment – the evidence is increasingly clearer. These are commercially viable, climate-smart enterprises operating in high-growth markets. This is both a pipeline problem and a capital design problem. The financial instruments already exist, but they were not built with women-led micro and small businesses in mind. This leaves the fit fundamentally misaligned.
The blueprint launch session will take participants through the ten highest-potential investment areas in climate solutions led by women micro and small businesses, examining the evidence and identifying where capital can move first. The session will bring together investors, development financiers, philanthropists, practitioners, policymakers, and financial service providers to explore where climate finance can unlock its next wave of growth and impact.
This is a conversation about where the climate economy is heading — and who is already building it. Together, we will examine the data, challenge assumptions, and help shape what happens next.
Hope to see you there!