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News Alliance magazine 21 January 2020

Laudes Foundation launches to address climate crises

Laudes Foundation launches today with the aim to address the dual crises of climate breakdown and challenge industries to implement business practices that ‘regenerate and restore nature.’ The new foundation is a part of the …

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News Alliance magazine 12 January 2020

Investors file climate change resolution at Barclays AGM

Lankelly Chase is one of 11 institutional investors and more than 100 individual shareholders who have asked Barclays to phase out its financing of fossil fuel companies that are driving the climate crisis. The first …

Opinion Laurie Goering 1 January 2020

Climate philanthropy matters

Cash to spend to fight climate change?  Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Climate Change Editor, gives some ideas on how best to spend your money. In January, the World Economic Forum put climate change and …

News Alliance magazine 29 December 2019

New report from CEGA on nature based solutions to address climate change

China Environmental Grantmakers Alliance (CEGA) released its Case Studies Report at a COP 25 side event discussing nature based solutions to address climate change. The event was hosted by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment …

Special feature Carla López Cabrera, Daniëlle Hirsch and Zohra Moosa 3 December 2019

Climate change is not gender neutral

A feminist approach rooted in local communities can provide a powerful source of protecting the environment and achieving gender justice In mid-2016, the Canadian company Orezone Gold Corporation arrived in Bomboré, a town in the …

News Alliance magazine 6 November 2019

Fourteen UK funders commit to tackle climate change

Fourteen UK foundations have made a public commitment to tackle climate change and are calling other funders to join them in pledging their support. The Funder Commitment on Climate Change is being launched at the …

Opinion Nick Perks 2 November 2019

Climate of change for leading foundations

In June, at a gathering of the Woburn Place group of foundation leaders, we heard very persuasive evidence from Stephanie Pfiel of Client Earth and Kené Umeasiegbu, Head of Environment at Tesco, about the urgency …

Opinion 1 Pavlina Draganova 31 October 2019

Foundations can, and must, do more to tackle climate change

Last October, the world’s leading climate scientists issued a final warning: we are running out of time to prevent disastrous global warming. A year on, their message has made its mark in the UK and …

News 1 Charles Keidan and Andrew Milner 22 October 2019

European foundations commit $13 million to tackle planet and climate crisis

Four of Europe’s leading foundations tackling climate change have committed $13 million (€11.6 million) of funding to advance work to protect the ‘global commons’ – the areas and ecosystems of our planet on which we …