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News Alliance magazine 7 July 2021

Climate Funders Justice Pledge signatories are resourcing BIPOC-led groups at higher percentage than peers

New data released by the Donors of Color Network finds that most foundations who have taken its Climate Funders Justice Pledge have committed more than 30 per cent of their 2019-2020 climate funding to BIPOC-led …

Page Alliance magazine 29 June 2021

#PhilanthropyForClimate

As Alliance magazine’s June 2021 issue looks at climate philanthropy ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, we’re partnering with the International Philanthropy Commitment on Climate Change to ask a number of organisations around the world: what is philanthropy’s role in addressing climate …

Interview Alliance magazine and International Philanthropy Commitment on Climate Change 29 June 2021

MAPLE on Indigenous-led climate work in Chile

In Chile, the micro-development organisation MAPLE has been working for almost a decade with Mapuche communities to create a sustainable and community-powered finance tool that fits the tradition values and culture of the Indigenous population …

Opinion Dr Keratiloe Mogotsi 25 June 2021

Climate change resilience: can philanthropy play a role?

We have heard about it all before: rising temperatures, failing crops resulting in food insecurity, the melting ice caps – these are all part of the narrative of climate change. Natural disasters, which seem to …

Conference Report Annmarie McQueen 22 June 2021

Alliance webinar: Climate philanthropy now – where should philanthropy put its funding?

Currently only 2 per cent of philanthropic giving goes towards addressing climate change, however it’s clear that more is urgently needed. To mark the publication of our June issue, this webinar brought together a panel …

Interview Alliance magazine and International Philanthropy Commitment on Climate Change 15 June 2021

Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation: integrating climate in Australia

Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation in Australia decided to give climate change a bigger space in its work in 2016, when it began integrating an environmental lens across all its grantmaking and projects. That step – …

Conference Alliance magazine 9 June 2021

Climate philanthropy now: where should philanthropy put its funding?

Opinion Charles Keidan 2 June 2021

Advice for philanthropy from COP’s Climate Action Champion

‘Philanthropy is incredibly influential.’ That is the view of Nigel Topping, High-Level Climate Action Champion for the UK, who is responsible for driving the actions of non-state actors to a fossil-free future ahead of COP26 …

News Elika Roohi 1 June 2021

Controversial UK coal mine will never happen, says COP Climate Champion

Nigel Topping, the person appointed by the UK Government as High Level Climate Action Champion, says a proposed coalmine in Cumbria won’t happen No new licenses: North Sea oil and gas licenses won’t be granted, …

Special feature Felicitas von Peter and Winnie Asiti 1 June 2021

Climate action now!

If it is to play its part in tackling climate change, philanthropy itself needs to change – and it needs to do so immediately Climate change has emerged as the greatest challenge of our time. …