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2X Criteria
Join us for a session on how to apply the 2X Criteria across companies, funds, and financial institutions operating in diverse sectors, contexts, and geographies. Using the 2X Criteria Reference Guide, we’ll walk through approaches tailored specifically to investment transactions. You’ll gain clear guidance, insights, and actionable tools to strengthen gender smart investing in your portfolio.
2X Criteria is the global industry standard for assessing and structuring investments that provide women with leadership opportunities, quality employment, finance, enterprise support, and products and services that enhance economic participation and access. They have been widely adopted by investors, financial intermediaries and companies as well as other stakeholders worldwide to assess and monitor gender-lens investments, unifying investors under one framework and language.
The 2X Challenge, underpinned by the 2X Criteria, has played an important role in building the field of gender lens investing (GLI). Today, hundreds of companies and investors around the world use the 2X Criteria as a global standard for gender finance.
The 2X Criteria is a public good and can be used by anyone in the market to set their own targets for new business and portfolio, and self-report on their alignment with the 2X Criteria. This means, the 2X Criteria are applicable to any kind of investor or financial institution, whether you are an impact investor, development finance institution, international finance institution, multi-lateral development bank, pension fund, endowment, asset manager, private equity firm, individual investor or other capital providers to screen and mark/tag deals as 2X-aligned for their internal reporting and tracking purposes.
The 2X Criteria can also be used by private sector companies to assess their practices against the criteria.
Time: 3:00 AM ET & 9:00 AM ET
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The Digital Product Passport: What It Requires and How to Prepare
Have you ever heard of a Digital Product Passport?
If your company manufactures, exports, or sources from supply chains that touch the EU market, it is worth understanding before enforcement begins.The central mechanism for delivering EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation is the Digital Product Passport: a standardised, machine-readable record covering material composition, carbon footprint by lifecycle stage, substances of concern, and end-of-life information, required for every product placed on the EU market regardless of where it is produced.
On July 21, Boundless is hosting a free webinar covering what ESPR requires and which sectors are affected first, what product-level life cycle data manufacturers need to produce, and how to prepare before enforcement begins.
Time: 11:00 AM ET
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Webinar on Digital Procurement Opportunities
You are warmly invited to join a webinar on digital procurement opportunities. This is a dedicated session to help industry suppliers tap into new Multilateral Development Bank (MDB)-financed opportunities in the energy sector.
Hear from the World Bank Group (WBG) and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) about procurement opportunities available in select, high impact digital projects.
You can view the recording and presentations from a previous webinar focused on transport opportunities here. You can also view the recording and presentations from a previous webinar focused on energy opportunities here.
In this session, you will:·
- Discover upcoming digital procurement opportunities
- Hear directly from experts from the WBG and EBRD on the status of these projects and updates to procurement regulations to put more emphasis on quality and innovation
- Get your questions answered in a dedicated Q&A
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South-South Learning Webinar Series · Gender & Electric Mobility
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is opening a new four-part South-South Learning Webinar Series on Gender and Electric Mobility on 21st July 2026.
The series forms part of E-Mobility as a Driver for Change: Towards a Gender-Transformative and Just Transition to Electric Mobility, funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by UNEP.
Running pilots in six countries (Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Vietnam, Indonesia), the project recognizes that the transition to electric mobility is more than a technology shift—it is an opportunity to reshape the sector, ensuring that women are included from the outset rather than inheriting the inequalities of the past.
Time: 11:00 UTC / 6:00 AM ET
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