Global climate finance has an increasing number of funds and actors. Since climate change impacts men and women differently, there also needs to be an increasing awareness of gender in these funding mechanisms. Additionally, each gender has different adaptive and mitigative capabilities to respond to these impacts. Therefore, the author of this report finds that these differences should be factored into climate change finance discussions, operating procedures, as well as project outlines and funding. To do this, lessons learned from efforts to mainstream gender in development can be helpful guides, and the tools developed for these efforts can be adapted and applied to making gender equitable climate financing instruments. A multi-pronged strategy is suggested, which includes the following elements: raising all institutions’ and donors’ commitments to gender equity in the new climate finance architecture, demanding mandatory periodic gender audits, developing transparent gender budgets for projects and programmes, as well as improving women’s participation in planning processes and decision-making bodies.