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BRACE: the Hong Kong organisation focusing 100% of its giving on climate action
BRACE is a charity in Hong Kong that’s putting climate action at the centre of all its efforts. BRACE Deputy Executive Director joined AVPN and the IPCCC to talk about what that looks like. As …
Funding framework for climate change for Australian philanthropists
The Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network (AEGN) has released a new Climate Change Funding Framework for philanthropists. The Framework helps philanthropists consider change levers to secure emissions reductions, the sectors that need to be transformed, how …
Community voices need to be a part of the climate crisis response
We would like to respond to the learnings and discussions that we have heard recently from COP26 and the Global Philanthropy Forum. As the world’s challenges become more and more pressing due to the disproportionate …
Philanthropy-backed multi-million dollar climate awards announce recipients
Three leaders in climate change mitigation have today each received $3 million from the Climate Breakthrough Project, a philanthropy-backed initiative that offers annual awards to individuals with cutting-edge climate change mitigation ideas that haven’t yet …
Bias and narrow thinking hold back food and climate action, finds report
A new report about evidence, influence, and food systems from the Global Alliance for the Future of Food has found that there are viable food solutions to the current climate, biodiversity, and hunger crises going …
Peer Dialogue: Food security, climate change and pandemia
Climate change and the pandemic have brought deficiencies in food systems into stark focus. ‘Natural farming’ offers one possibility for much-needed change. Guest editor Ruth Richardson talks with Vijay Thallam of the Andhra Pradesh Community-managed …
Time for Nigeria’s ultra-wealthy to get behind climate change philanthropy
Nigeria ranks as the fifty-eighth most vulnerable and the twenty-second least ready nation to adapt to the threats of climate change, a degree of unpreparedness which was already in evidence in the confusion following the …
The climate philanthropy statesman
GLASGOW – The Hewlett Foundation has traditionally been one of the biggest and longstanding funders in the climate philanthropy space, but this year they are asking their board to increase their budget by 40 per …
10 lessons from a decade in climate philanthropy
I started working in climate philanthropy over a decade ago. At the time, less than two per cent of all philanthropic contributions went towards climate change. For the climate community, the disappointing summit of Copenhagen …