Author: Global Greengrants Fund

A New Central Asia Advisory Board

By Sergey Solyanik, Central Asia Advisory Board Coordinator   In 2023, Global Greengrants Fund officially launched a new Central Asia Advisory Board to support, preserve, and develop environmental movements in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. In the board’s first year of pilot grantmaking, it awarded $250k to 35 groups across the region. Central Asia—made up […]

Sinegugu and Nonhle stand next to each other. Sinegugu is on the left. He is a Black man with a bald head. He is wearing a bright yellow shirt with colorful patterns embroidered onto it, and he is smiling slightly, his hands on his hips. On the right is Nonhle. She is a Black woman with curly hair cropped short. She is wearing a button up grey shirt and a more serious expression. Behind them is a lush and bright green field of grass.

Congratulations to the 2024 Goldman Prize Winners

Global Greengrants Fund congratulates the amazing activists from around the world who have received the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize. For 35 years, the Goldman Environmental Prize has recognized the achievements and leadership of activists who are on the frontlines of some of the most pressing environmental issues of our time. We are honored each year […]

A Vote to Protect Yasuní National Park in Ecuador

In August 2023, the population of Ecuador voted through a national referendum to halt all current and future oil extraction in Yasuní National Park. Soon after the referendum, Global Greengrants Fund spoke to Esperanza Martínez from grantee partner Acción Ecológica to learn more about the referendum—both the years of collective organizing that lead up to […]

COP28 Reflections: A Dance Between Progress and False Promises

By Nerissa Anku, Just Energy Transition Coordinator In my capacity as Global Greengrants Fund (GGF)’s Coordinator for a Just Energy Transition, I was honored to join fellow representatives from our global network of grassroots activists at COP28. Convened in the United Arab Emirates last December, COP28 drew over 83,000 participants into a critical dialogue on […]

Food sovereignty for persons with disabilities in Sinduadi, Indonesia

The Disability Rights and Climate Justice (DRCJ) Advisory Board at Global Greengrants Fund is a global board founded in 2022 that encourages intersectional connections between disability rights and climate justice movements. In this blog series, we hear directly from those grantee partners, digging deeper into their contexts, their strategies for supporting disability rights and environmental justice, and […]

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