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 […]
In 2018, Global Greengrants Fund, a leading funder of grassroots environmental justice movements, began a new initiative to support work at the intersection of disability rights and environmental justice. This initiative was supported by The Ford Foundation, as well as Yolanda Muñoz, a previous Program Officer with the Disability Rights Fund, who offered her experience […]
In the latest report shared by the Human Rights Funders Network, Global Greengrants Fund is listed as the top funder of human rights by number of grants. The report uses data from 2018, a year in which Greengrants awarded 941 grants supporting human rights work. At Global Greengrants Fund, close to 80% of our grants […]
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