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Harnessing the law for climate justice: EFN 2023 Retreat Keynote Talk

Harnessing the law for climate justice: EFN 2023 Retreat Keynote Talk

Posted on 13 Jul 2023

Nani Jansen Reventlow’s keynote talk during our annual retreat for funders this year was titled ‘Harnessing the law for climate justice.’ Nani laid out what long-term funding in strategic litigation can achieve and how to use it as a tool for climate justice.

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Five ways to become a better climate justice funder

Five ways to become a better climate justice funder

Posted on 16 Dec 2022

To truly address the impact of the climate crisis, funding must be anti-racist and address social injustice. In this blog, Nani Jansen Reventlow sets out five ways to become a better climate justice funder.

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What does addressing root causes look like?

What does addressing root causes look like?

Posted on 5 Oct 2022

Why is 'new economy' work relevant to environmental philanthropy? Reflections on how can funders support work to redesign the economic system to be life-supporting, not life-eroding.

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Embodying a Regenerative Economy: EFN 2022 Retreat Keynote Talk

Embodying a Regenerative Economy: EFN 2022 Retreat Keynote Talk

Posted on 29 Jul 2022

Stephanie Brobbey’s informative keynote talk during our annual retreat for funders this year was titled ‘Embodying a Regenerative Economy’. Stephanie laid out some of the problems we face — climate change, biodiversity loss, extreme inequality — and argued that to understand them we need to interrogate systems, starting with the economy.

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COP26: Philanthropy can drive systemic change – and back more equitable climate solutions

COP26: Philanthropy can drive systemic change – and back more equitable climate solutions

Posted on 9 Dec 2021

The COP26 climate talks brought hope and frustration – but also reminded us of the unique role philanthropy can play in creating a fair and sustainable world. In this piece, Ed Dean considers what the COP taught us about the power and potential of philanthropy.

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EFN 2021 Retreat Keynote Talk

EFN 2021 Retreat Keynote Talk

Posted on 8 Jul 2021

How can funders use the tools we have — our power, privileges and positions — to tackle those things that are most systemic? How can we support climate action that is truly intersectional, supporting both nature and people, and inclusive of everyone? Farhana put forward various suggestions in her keynote talk at EFN's annual retreat.

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Into the Fourth Dimension: Funding with a ‘discourses’ lens in mind

Into the Fourth Dimension: Funding with a ‘discourses’ lens in mind

Posted on 8 Jul 2021

When thinking about how to focus their environmental giving, funders often think about three dimensions of work they can support: the thematic issue addressed, the approach used and the location or geography of the work. Jon and Harriet argue that funders tend to inhabit a fourth dimension, values (or discourses), which consciously or not bound the limits of their giving.

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COVID-19: The view from Possible

COVID-19: The view from Possible

Posted on 12 Aug 2020

When coronavirus hit, like many other organisations working in the sector, we were determined not to let it stall the momentum for action on climate change that has been built in the last year. We know there is no silver lining to coronavirus. But we also recognise the pandemic represents an utterly unprecedented global ‘moment of change’, in which the regular patterns of hundreds of millions of people’s lives have been forcefully interrupted, not just as individuals but as part of local and global communities. Capturing this moment provides an opportunity to create a domino effect of climate-positive behaviours in communities across the UK, writes Patrik Ewe from Possible.

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Environmental philanthropy and COVID-19: what’s love got to do with It?

Environmental philanthropy and COVID-19: what’s love got to do with It?

Posted on 28 Apr 2020

What the pandemic has helped bring into focus is the interconnectedness of the social crisis and the environmental calamity unfolding around us. The deeper you go into the causes of both, the more tangled their roots seem to be.

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What future for the world’s tropical forests and forest peoples?

What future for the world’s tropical forests and forest peoples?

Posted on 7 Oct 2019

If the people whose ancestral lands comprise the tropical forests of our planet emerge stronger from 2020 onwards, so will the world’s tropical forests. The vast majority of global biodiversity is found on indigenous territories, and these lands hold nearly 55 trillion metric tons of carbon. With key moments approaching in 2020, here are a few areas where concerted effort is needed to challenge power and change the system.

 

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