Despite the continuance of the COVID pandemic around the globe, 2021 was a year of building new connections and partnerships for WOCAN. I believe that through online virtual meetings, events, webinars, even training courses, we were more connected than ever before, and with individuals, companies, and other organizations that we may not have met during in-person events. We have been staying connected to our existing wide-network of friends and colleagues in the gender and climate-related circles, but have extended our network this year to include a large circle of women leaders in the gender-lens investing community, that has now become interested in climate change solutions. Our activities at the nexus of gender equality and climate change for the decade have placed us squarely as a provider of the kind of solutions that are now being sought, as the climate and SDG movements gain speed and the climate financiers and gender financiers start to align.
