The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in Azerbaijan has had devastating impacts for local people. Community organizing has been essential to ensure that people’s rights are not abused as this pipeline continues to affect local livelihoods and health. Greengrants has supported several groups pressuring for accountability from the oil industry in Azerbaijan, including the Committee of Protection for […]
West Africa Advisory Board member Nnimmo Bassey, of Environmental Rights Action, discusses why he believes that the latest Gates/Rockefeller initiative will deepen the problems faced by African farmers
Father Arana of GRUFIDES, a grassroots group in Peru working on issues of extractive mining impacts, has been threatened by masked men and followed a mining company vehicle from the Yanacocha Mine, owned by Newmont Mining Corporation.
Since 2000, Greengrants has given well over $1 million dollars to hundreds of organizations working on climate change in every corner of the globe.
Many of our grantees are in locations where there is little inclination to switch from outdated, dirty fossil fuel generators to cleaner, alternative energy sources. In addition to raising awareness of the benefits of alternative energy, several grantees have also been instrumental in creating demonstration and experimental alternative wind and solar energy systems.
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