Major victory: 173 countries agree to develop a historic treaty on plastic waste Huub Scheele, Coordinator of the International Financial Institution Advisory Board People from all over the world have a major victory to celebrate: 173 countries agreed to write a legally binding global agreement to regulate the full lifecycle of plastic at the United […]
By Alison Wright, Director of the Environmental Defenders Collaborative Photo credit: Wambui Gichobi | Survival Media Agency In 2019, Global Greengrants Fund became the fiscal home of the Environmental Defenders Collaborative, merging the expertise and breadth of our networks to support environmental defenders and deepen the impact of our collective grantmaking. The Environmental Defenders Collaborative […]
By Peter Kostishack, Director of Programs At COP26, many governments and investment institutions announced commitments to phase out coal power and end direct international financing of the fossil fuel industry. Yet even with these commitments, governments’ planned oil and gas production is still double what is needed to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit. The […]
Recently two Global Greengrants Fund grantees were profiled in The New York Times for their outstanding work protecting both people and planet. Protecting Orangutans in the Leuser Ecosystem The article, “Fleeting Glimpses of Indonesia’s Endangered Orangutans”, features Greengrants grantee, Panut Hadisiswoyo, founder of the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) in Sumatra. The OIC works to protect […]
By Alex Grossman, Director of Communications On Monday, August 10, 2021, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released yet another report highlighting the dire situation humanity and our planet will be in if we don’t curb carbon emissions immediately, and keep global warming to under 1.5 degrees Celsius. The 2018 report gave us just 12 […]
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