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Children’s Investment Fund Foundation pledges $500 million to combat climate change
Today, the UK’s Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) pledged $500 million over the next five years to combat climate change. This funding contributes to a $4 billion global commitment – the largest-ever philanthropic investment in …
Why we need collaborations to tackle climate change
In the current political moment, one where we can no longer trust politicians and international actors to have human compassion and protect our rights to a healthy planet, who do we trust? Over the past …
Mobilising social finance for climate action in Asia
Asia is particularly vulnerable to the consequences of climate change. A confluence of man-made factors ranging from industrial agriculture practices to widespread deforestation to a reliance on conventional energy sources present serious threats to the …
Chinese environmental funders join forces as Hewlett chief warns of urgent need to tackle climate change
A new coalition of major environmental grantmakers was launched in Beijing on 29 January. The news comes days after Larry Kramer, president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in the US called on foundations …
Hewlett President urges foundations to give more to tackle climate change
Larry Kramer, President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, has issued an urgent call for foundations to focus on the threat caused by climate change – or risk undermining progress of their work in …
Hewlett Foundation to step up its climate funding – by $600m
The California-based William and Flora Hewlett Foundation will donate $600 million over the next five years to work on climate change around the world. The pledge, the largest the foundation has made to climate issues, …
Paul G. Allen Philanthropy partners with NOAA for oceanographic climate change research
With much turmoil surrounding the topic of climate change, the world seems uncertain about the effects on the environment. With that in mind, Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has embarked on a new philanthropic endeavour …
Disasters and climate change: an infographic
The number of forcibly displaced people has grown from 33.9 million in 1997 to 65.6 million persons in 2016 due in large part to conflicts in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. The rise in …
Why philanthropy must do more on climate change
This article was originally posted by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, on 14 March 2017. The original article can be found here. History is replete with examples of societies that vanished when the local climate …