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Adam McGibbon Ending UK support for fossil fuels overseas: key lessons from a big policy win

Posted on 30 Jun 2021

In December 2020, the UK Government announced an end to its finance for fossil fuels overseas, becoming the first major country in the world to take this step. This landmark announcement followed a multi-year campaign by a coalition of NGOs, which later won the ‘David and Goliath Award’ at the Sheila McKechnie Foundation’s National Campaign Awards. Adam McGibbon, the coordinator of the campaign, shares some of the key factors in the campaign's success that led to this big – and unexpected – policy win.

Keywords: advocacy, climate change, collaboration, effectiveness, policy work

Patricia Cremona, EFN Where the climate grants went in 2020

Posted on 6 Apr 2021

Given the urgency of the climate crisis and the shortfall in funding, current and prospective climate funders face extremely challenging decisions to ensure their grantmaking is as impactful as possible. Information on which particular issues, approaches and organisations other funders are supporting, and which are receiving less attention than others, can be very helpful to funders when making difficult grantmaking decisions.
With this in mind, EFN initiated a mapping exercise in 2020 to gather information on climate-related grantmaking from funders that participate in EFN’s Climate Funders Group. This blog summarises our key findings which we hope will be of use to current and potential climate funders.

Keywords: climate change, collaboration, effectiveness, fundraising, mapping

Charlotte Ravenscroft and David Kane, Lucent Consultancy Grant funding versus the climate crisis

Posted on 29 Mar 2021

In the summer of 2020, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation were considering how they could help tackle the climate crisis. They engaged us – Lucent Consultancy – to help with some background research and have graciously agreed that we can share some of our findings and thoughts here. This blog focusses on what we learnt about green funders’ grantmaking, as one of the main – but by no means the only – tools funders use to influence change.

Keywords: climate change, effectiveness, fundraising, mapping

Patrik Ewe, 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.

Keywords: advocacy, climate change, communications, communities, COVID-19, fundraising, justice, policy work

Amy Forshaw, Whitley Fund for Nature COVID-19: The view from Whitley Fund for Nature

Posted on 31 Jul 2020

Whitley Fund for Nature supports grassroots conservation leaders in the Global South, for whom the effects of the pandemic have been profound. Across our network of over 200 conservationists in more than 80 countries, many are facing delays to urgent projects, reduced income from livelihoods based on ecotourism, or an increase in harmful activities by people who are struggling to survive. But our winners never cease to inspire us with their ability to adapt to challenging circumstances, writes Amy Forshaw from Whitley Fund for Nature.

Keywords: biodiversity, climate change, communities, conservation, COVID-19, grassroots, women

Eva Rehse and Jasleen Mahal, Global Greengrants Fund COVID-19: The view from Global Greengrants Fund

Posted on 13 Jul 2020

How are grassroots climate initiatives around the world turning the significant challenges brought by COVID-19 into unprecedented opportunities to advance the climate movement? Eva Rehse and Jasleen Mahal present insights from partners across the Global Greengrants Fund network, who have identified three key ways funders can provide much-needed support; and bring hope that the pandemic might just have given us the best chance we will have to turn things around - for both people and planet.

Keywords: climate change, COVID-19, diversity, food, funding overseas, grassroots

Pat Venditti, Greenpeace UK COVID-19: The view from Greenpeace

Posted on 12 Jun 2020

The need to act on the pandemic has meant new challenges for much of Greenpeace's core work. Our volunteers aren't out on the streets talking to people about environmental issues; politicians and companies are less open to meetings with our campaigners as they struggle with immediate priorities; many events that would usually be crucial to our fundraising have been cancelled or postponed. Meanwhile, governments are injecting trillions into the global economy to keep it afloat. With this unprecedented amount of money available it is our job to ensure that, rather than propping up old industries that are fuelling the climate and nature crisis, governments direct that money towards a greener, more resilient economy that puts people and the planet first.

Keywords: advocacy, climate change, collaboration, COVID-19, fundraising

Florence Miller, Environmental Funders Network 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.

Keywords: biodiversity, climate change, conservation, justice, love, systems change

Ginger Cassady, Rainforest Action Network Mission 2020: holding corporations to account for deforestation, and supporting communities on the ground

Posted on 7 Oct 2019

2020 is a 'Super Year', a year for bold action on forests, amongst other environmental and social issues. Can funders support NGOs as they hold corporations to account and support forest defenders on the ground?

Keywords: biodiversity, climate change, conservation, deforestation, funding overseas, indigenous peoples

Harriet Williams, Goldsmith Family Philanthropy The 2020 ‘Super Year’ – what does it mean for forests?