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 […]
Over a year after the COVID-19 outbreak was officially declared a global pandemic, the virus continues to spread across the world. Despite the rapid development of effective vaccines, the global population is far from reaching herd immunity and many countries are experiencing huge waves of infection, high death rates, and struggling economies. At Global […]
By Alex Grossman, Director of Communications In 2020, the world faced a new challenge, the coronavirus pandemic. A virus that originated in China quickly spread to the most remote corners of the globe, changing the way each and every one of us has lived for the past year. Just one year later, highly effective vaccines […]
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