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Is a shift in consciousness the key to pushing back Earth Overshoot Day?

Florence Miller, EFN Is a shift in consciousness the key to pushing back Earth Overshoot Day?

Posted on 29 Jul 2021

Today we hit Earth Overshoot Day, the day by which we’ve used up the ecological resources that the Earth could regenerate in one year – fully five months before the end of the year. This is utter madness: we have pushed the self-destruct button and piled our many possessions on top of it to hold it down. Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk may be choosing to launch themselves into the void to escape the – well, possibility of creating another void here on Earth – but what can be done to push that day back to 31 December or beyond? What is the role for philanthropy in creating human systems that cultivate life, rather than destroying it?

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Communicating the Ocean in a COVID-19 World

Natalie Hart, Marine CoLABoration Communicating the Ocean in a COVID-19 World

Posted on 3 Aug 2020

How can we communicate about the ocean effectively in a COVID-19 world? It is a question that many members of the Marine CoLABoration, a network of ocean-interested organisations funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, have grappled with since the start of the pandemic. There have been difficult conversations over the need to communicate sensitively, while also protecting the hard-won gains that have been made in recent years and continuing to progress forwards. Natalie Hart from the Marine CoLAB explores how we can push for meaningful change, but do so in a way that does not cause harm.

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My cause is your cause

Peter Lipman My cause is your cause

Posted on 22 Feb 2018

Why did an Australian conservation organisation email its supporters encouraging them to vote for same-sex marriage, and what can environmental funders learn from their experience?

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Three Questions Environmental Justice Funders Need to Consider Today

Eva Rehse, Global Greengrants Fund Three Questions Environmental Justice Funders Need to Consider Today

Posted on 28 Oct 2016

We are at a key moment in history. If business as usual continues, we have just five years left before we reach the critical global temperature rise of 1.5C. Despite some of the world’s largest economies recently ratifying the Paris Agreement, there seems little real commitment to tackle the big transition required to change course from this trajectory. Civil society is mobilising in response, but finds itself under pressure from state and non-state actors alike. At Global Greengrants Fund we are discussing what our priorities should be over the next five years within this context. Three fundamental questions underlie our thinking.

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Valuing Ocean Experiments…Part II: the collaborator’s perspective

Giles Bristow, Forum for the Future Valuing Ocean Experiments…Part II: the collaborator’s perspective

Posted on 6 Sep 2016

As a group of Marine NGOs (loosely termed), we are a system, or perhaps more relevantly, we are an ecosystem. We have a loose common purpose, we relate to each other and our actions have consequences for each other, yet until now, we have barely been aware of each other and certainly did not collaborate and coordinate our activities. Not in any meaningful sense. Now this is changing.

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Valuing Ocean Experiments…Part I: the funder’s perspective

Louisa Hooper, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Valuing Ocean Experiments…Part I: the funder’s perspective

Posted on 6 Sep 2016

Last year we established the Marine CoLABoration, a group of nine UK-based NGOs, each bringing different approaches, areas of expertise and geographical focus to marine conservation. We are funding the CoLAB to meet, initially over a two-year period, to explore new ideas and areas of convergence in a series of facilitated workshops using experimental ‘laboratory’ techniques. The CoLAB creates a collaborative arena to think differently, experiment with new ways of approaching problems, take action, learn and share. Its vision is to catalyse new and more effective solutions, working with the values that connect people and the ocean.

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Why We Need to Keep Searching For a More Effective Climate Change Narrative

George Marshall Why We Need to Keep Searching For a More Effective Climate Change Narrative

Posted on 4 Jan 2016

The agreement reached at COP21 signals a level of ambition that exceeds what many battle-weary campaigners believed was possible. But a great deal of sustained political will is going to be needed if we are going to turn the rhetoric into reality. This is inconceivable without support from across all of society. Now more than ever we need a coherent, comprehensive and credible strategy for public engagement that is based on research-based evidence rather than the received wisdom of past environmental campaigns.

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