The article summarizes some of the ways in which environmental change and security have been linked, highlights case studies from Nepal and Sudan, and discusses the current research being conducted on microfinance as a strategy for bolstering the resilience of the most vulnerable peoples in the world.

SEWA BANK ROLE MODEL green finance presentation at the Roundtable on Microfinance and the Environment: Setting the Research and Policy Agenda - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, held at Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. Presented by Sharmila Davra, Energy Projects Manager, Energy Projects Manager, SEWA, Ahmadabad, India

SEWA BANK Energy Finance presentation at the Roundtable on Microfinance and the Environment: Setting the Research and Policy Agenda - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, held at Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. Presented by Sharmila Davra, Energy Projects Manager, Energy Projects Manager, SEWA, Ahmadabad, India

Operating in Ahedabad City, Gugarat, India, SEWA provides income generating loans and insurance plans. Additionally, the trade union provides microfinancial loans to improve infrastructure in slums through its programs "Parivartan." Families join cooperative groups and receive financial and technical assistance in bringing sanitatary water supply to slum communities.

Microfinance as a Tool to Protect Biodiversity Hot-Spots paper by M. Consuelo Mu