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CAP Directory of
Opportunities Climate Philanthropy
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To make climate philanthropy more tangible, accessible and actionable, the Climate Action Pledge promoters have gathered a discrete set of investable existing and emerging solutions to reduce and adapt to global heating. These have been vetted by trusted partners.
CAP is committed to furthering a systems approach to what is, ultimately, a systems-of-systems challenge. CAP is also committed to furthering the understanding that climate is an all of us, everywhere challenge – demanding that all of us engage as we are able. We have decided to look at climate actions through intersecting lenses, each of which directly touches our lives and also creates opportunities to build support for systems level change: food, cities, communications, and finance.
This portion of the Directory is focused on philanthropic donation opportunities and is loosely organized around the themes of food, cities and communications, although many actions fall under more than one category. There is a separate portion focused on finance and climate investing.
This Directory is, ideally, a springboard to help those who want to make a foray into, or explore a new aspect of, the field and welcome ideas. It is not meant to suggest a definitive list by any means – rather a strong starting, or next, stage as you consider donating and/or investing through a climate lens.
Note, the CAP takes a “yes, and” approach, seeking to affirm efforts across the philanthropic spectrum, recognizing that we need to be moving on all fronts simultaneously, and noting the intersectional, cross-cutting nature of the climate challenge. Therefore, your climate donation or investment need not be to one of the organizations or funds included in the Directory. We welcome all pledges that are intentional in their focus on climate mitigation and/or adaptation. We will be tracking all commitments of US$100K equivalent, or more.
We appreciate your support in expanding the CAP and creating a more interactive platform and community.
The Climate Action Pledge engages individual philanthropists and investors in climate-focused investing and donating. Whether it is your first – or a further – step on your climate journey, we are confident you will find practical and stimulating ideas in the Directory and energizing intellectual and social engagement through the CAP community.
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Agroecology Fund – The AgroEcology Fund (AEF) is a multi-donor fund supporting agroecological practices and policies. The Fund aims to support viable food systems, promote the economic well-being and human rights of small farmers and their communities, and mitigate climate change through low input agriculture featuring sustainable soil and water use. It links organizations and movements that advance agroecological solutions locally, regionally and globally.
Contact: Daniel [email protected] Proposal on p.8
Cool Food Pledge – Spearheaded by the World Resources Institute, the Cool Food Pledge is a platform for universities, hospitals, companies, and other public facilities that have dining facilities and commit to reducing the GHG emissions associated with the food they provide by 25 percent by 2030 relative to 2015. The Cool Food Pledge team provides guidance to signatories to help them develop a plan for serving more climate-friendly food. They also connect signatories with organizations producing innovative products, solutions, and training.
Contact: Gerard Pozzi [email protected] Proposal on p.10
Edible Schoolyard Project – Founded by Alice Waters, an ‘Edible Education’ places the child at the center of their learning and uses food to engage all aspects of the child’s education. Through growing, processing, cooking, eating, studying, talking, and thinking about food, students develop skills, knowledge, and behaviors that enrich their academic and nonacademic lives, bolster their growth as individuals and in relationships, and cultivate meaningful engagement with their own health, the health of their communities, and the health of the planet.
Contact: Claire Sullivan [email protected] Proposal on p.12
Food Heroes is the first food education program designed to integrate nutrition and sustainability. It is spearheaded by JUCCCE (Joint US-China Collaboration for Clean Energy) and is already being implemented in China, with plans to expand to the US. The program focuses on behavior change by teaching children how to eat in a way that is good for them and for the planet. Contact: Meredith [email protected] Proposal on p.15
Opportunities for… climate philanthropy
Food Systems
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ReFED - ReFED is a U.S. based multi-stakeholder nonprofit that takes a data-driven approach to solve the national food waste problem. Their vision is to eliminate food waste in order to increase food security, spur economic growth, and protect the environment.
Contact: Katy Franklin [email protected] Proposal on p.16
Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions - has created a comprehensive portfolio approach to promoting soil health and regenerative agriculture. The complete guide can be requested through the CAP ([email protected]) and/or through Breakthrough Strategies and Solutions directly: [email protected]
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Cities
CDP-Cities Matchmaker – The Carbon Disclosure Project is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The Matchmaker program is a mechanism to link investors to infrastructure projects that address climate change and build resilience in specific cities. Through Matchmaker’s specialized dashboard, potential financiers can view analytical data on city climate and water risks, as well as opportunities for investment.
Contact: Allison [email protected]
Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance – The Alliance is a multi-level and multi-stakeholder coalition aimed at closing the investment gap for urban subnational climate projects and infrastructure. Membership includes foundations and philanthropies. To join or participate and support.
Contact: Priscilla Negreiros [email protected]
Resilient Cities Network – Resilient Cities Network is the world’s leading urban resilience network. We bring together global knowledge, practice, partnerships, and funding to empower our members to build safe and equitable cities for all. The Resilient Cities Network builds on the legacy of the 100 Resilient Cities initiative. In partnership with our global community of cities and Chief Resilience Officers, we continue to deliver urban resilience through knowledge sharing, collaboration, and collective action, seeking to inspire, foster, and build resilience around the world.
Contact: Katrin Bruebach [email protected] Proposal on p.18
The Climate Finance Lab – Cooling as a Service (CaaS) – CaaS is an innovative pay-per-use business model for clean and efficient cooling that was endorsed by the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance in 2019. CaaS accelerates deployment of clean cooling technology at scale in emerging markets, by lowering upfront equipment costs and aligning incentives for the most efficient operations and maintenance. Proposal on p.21
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Climate Action - Established in 2007 and headquartered in London, UK, Climate Action establishes and builds partnerships between business, government and public bodies to accelerate international sustainable development and advance the ‘green economy’. They provide a global media and events platform across which stakeholders can share knowledge, technologies and expertise, and identify innovative solutions to the challenges faced by climate change and a growing population.
Contact: Nick [email protected]
Climate Outreach - Climate Outreach’s approach places people - their values and experiences - at the heart of public engagement on climate change, in order to build the social mandate necessary to transform our societies. Our role is as a catalyser of best practice and understanding. Working with partners and clients around the world, our team of social scientists and communications specialists produce evidence-based practical guidance for driving public engagement with climate change.
Contact: Katherine Wilcox [email protected] Proposal on p.23
Count Us In - Count Us In is building the world’s largest community of people, organizations and platforms taking practical action on climate change. Working with partners, we developed a list of 16 steps that we believe are the most meaningful actions people can take on climate change to protect what they love. Our mission is to inspire 1 billion citizens to significantly reduce their carbon pollution and challenge leaders to deliver bold, global change.
Contact: Eric Levine [email protected]
EAT Forum - EAT is the science-based global platform for food system transformation. Our vision is a fair and sustainable global food system for healthy people and planet – leaving no one behind. Our mission is to transform our global food system through sound science, impatient disruption and novel partnerships. EAT’s framework for change consists of a dynamic three-way interaction across knowledge, engagement, and action.
Contact: Sebastian [email protected] Proposal on p.26
Communications - Climate Literacy
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Project Drawdown - Founded in 2014, Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “Drawdown”—the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Since the 2017 publication of the New York Times bestseller, Drawdown, the organization has emerged as a world-leading resource for information and insight about climate solutions. We continue to develop that resource by conducting rigorous review and assessment of climate solutions, creating compelling and human communication across mediums, and partnering with efforts to accelerate climate solutions globally.
Contact: Jonathan [email protected] Proposal on p.28
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AgroEcology A Food System that Cools the Planet
Urgency and opportunity Farming the land as if nature doesn’t matter has been the model for much of the Western world’s food production system. The results have been alarming: agriculture is responsible for ¼ of global greenhouse emissions, soils are depleted and eroded, our waters chemically fouled, and public health is in crisis.
The IPCC’s most recent report urges us to act swiftly to keep to 1.5 degrees warming. In fact, agriculture is the only carbon-emitting sector that can mitigate its own emissions. To fix our climate, we must fix our food system. Fast.
There is a powerful, proven solution: agroecology.
Agroecological practices reduce on-farm emissions and, by sequestering carbon and repairing the hydrological cycle, cool the planet. The agroecology movement places climate mitigation, food security, nutrition, human rights, and sustainable development at the center of agriculture. Millions of food producers practice agroecology around the world— measuring their success not only in bushels and income but by how well soil and water regenerate, how resilient their territories are to climate extremes, and how nourishing their food is.
The Agroecology Fund is a consortium of more than 30 foundations from the United States, Europe and Asia that pools resources to strengthen agroecology movements on five continents. It is a game-changing
opportunity for transformation: simple, scalable, cost-effective, and within reach. The collaboratives supported by the Fund combine generations of Indigenous and traditional knowledge with innovation, continuously refining agroecological techniques, building the political will to adopt them widely, and sharing strategies to scale agroecology worldwide. Through their grassroots work, grantee partners demonstrate to their governments that transitioning to an agroecological food system will help them reach their climate change mitigation and adaptation targets, and most of the Sustainable Development Goals.
A sample of Agroecology Fund grantees’ climate actions, which you can support:
• In India, in collaboration with farmers’ associations, state governments are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to convert farmers to agroecological practices they describe as community-managed natural farming. Amrita Bhoomi, our partner in Karnataka, will train thousands of farmers, particularly women and youth, at their agroecology center in 2021.
• In Ghana, the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development promotes sustainable forestry practices among local communities to regenerate soils and slow the encroaching Sahel desert.
• In Central Asia, the Golden Hoof, a collaboration of nomadic pastoralists and scientists, is
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working together to revive populations of hardy indigenous cattle and horses that had all but disappeared. Native livestock are crucial to the health of grassland and mountain ecosystems, and the well-being of their stewards.
• In Mexico, our partners support coffee and corn producers’ cooperatives to conserve soils and diversify production. They collaborate closely with biodiversity agencies in the Mexican administration that is shifting national farm policy towards agroecology.
• The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, which works across 50 countries, is leading a continental climate campaign to ensure that agroecology is a key feature of African nations’ climate action plans.
• Many of our grantees, such as the International Indian Treaty Council and La Via Campesina, advocate internationally at the United National Food and Agriculture Organization and the Convention on Biodiversity to ensure that agroecology is upheld as the pillar of a climate-friendly food system.
For more information, please contact Daniel Moss, Executive Director [email protected]
Resources:Seeding the Agroecology Movement to Reimagine Agriculture: The Agroecology Fund’s First Seven Years
Bringing Farming Back to Nature by Mark Bittman and Daniel Moss
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Delicious Climate Action Scaling Cool Food into a movement that influences billions of meals a year
Summary Every day, millions of people purchase food from cafeterias and dining facilities. What if more dishes on offer were appealing and healthy, while helping fight climate change? Cool Food is a program that uses innovative behavior change principles to help consumers, companies and public facilities slash their food-related greenhouse gas emissions by shifting toward more plant-rich offerings. The World Resources Institute (WRI) is seeking funding to help scale the program to 10 billion meals a year.
The Challenge Producing meat, especially from ruminant livestock (e.g., beef, lamb), uses more land and emits significantly more greenhouse gases (GHGs) than producing plant-based foods. Shifting diets to include more plants and less ruminant meat, can significantly reduce agriculture’s pressure on forests and the climate.
Restaurants, corporate canteens, universities, hospitals, and schools hold sizable influence over dietary patterns through the food they procure for their consumers, workers and citizens. Their collective impact on the food system is large. For example, recent statistics from the United States show that spending on out-of-home dining now represents around 50% of the average Americans’ food budget. Three key barriers limit the out-of-home sector transitioning towards more sustainable diets. The first
is that most food providers have menus and dining setups that are orientated towards meat, with few committed to shifting towards a plant-rich offering. The second is that most establishments, even major chains and large public institutions, lack the know-how for shifting diners’ food choices towards plant-rich dishes. Thirdly, only a minority of consumers are aware of their diets have an impact on the climate (e.g., 10 percent in the EU1), and few know of the varying climate impacts of different food types.2
The Solution Cool Food tackles these barriers with two mutually reinforcing initiatives:
Cool Food Pledge is an initiative through which major food providers pledge to a science-based target for reducing their food-related GHG emissions, receive technical support to develop behavioral plans to shift consumers choices towards plant-rich dishes, and have their achievements promoted far and wide to inspire the wider industry to change. Members share procurement data every year so progress can be measured, and collective results are published annually. Launched in 2019, Cool Food already has 39 signatories (including Hilton Hotels, Harvester, IKEA, City of Milan, and Cambridge University) that serve more than 960 million meals a year. Results from 2019, the first year of action, found that relative food-related GHG emissions already fell by 8%, driven by a reduction in red meat and an
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increase in plants. Cool Food Meals determines and badges meals that are better for the climate in a way that is simple and compelling for consumers. A Cool Food Meal is identified by using a dish’s ingredients list to determine its GHG emissions and then comparing it to a per-meal threshold based on WRI’s recommended daily carbon footprint for a person’s diet. Launched in October 2020, the badge is already featured on 600 million meals a year and, through the 480 media articles and features we generated, has reached over 30 million people with messaging about food and the climate.
The Opportunity The Cool Food model for impact has been proven. We now need an injection of capital to help us rapidly scale the work to become a transformative force for change within the food industry. With the right level of financial support, we believe we can achieve four key game-changing goals by 2022; 1. Grow the number of organizations that are part of
Cool Food Pledge, thereby increasing the number of meals under Pledge to 3 billion meals per year.
2. Deepen our engagement with Cool Food Pledge members to achieve the ambitious food-related GHG emission target - a 25% absolute reduction and 38% relative reduction - by 2030 vs. baseline.
3. Grow the adoption of Cool Food Meals to cover 5 billion meals per year, expanding the scheme into the UK and Europe as well as into new, fast-growing sectors such as meal delivery.
4. Reach over 100 million people with messaging around the benefits of eating climate friendly food.
Actions To achieve these goals, we will undertake four key actions over the next two years:• Build Engagement Capacity. The main limitation
to growing Cool Food Pledge and Meals is our capacity to recruit and manage new food providers. We currently have two staff who manage all member engagement and we need to build up this team and expand into new geographies.
• Amplify Marketing and Communication. We have created a compelling brand that major companies are willing to co-promote, media outlets want to feature, and influencers wish to associate. Our main limitation to growing brand awareness is the staff and agency resource we have available to pitch media and develop marketing campaigns. We need to build up this team and establish a digital agency partner with an accompanying social media budget.
• Strengthen and Streamline Data Management. The size and complexity of data that we need to manage, especially for Cool Food Meals, is increasing. We need to expand the data teams’ capacity and invest in our database infrastructure to help streamline future data analysis.
• Widen Trademark and Certification. Currently, the Cool Food Meals trademark is only registered for the United States. We need to file the trademark to other nations and establish protocols to meet local certification criteria.
Funding We have designed a funding model that will provide a steady source of income beyond the initial startup philanthropic capital. Through an annual fee charged to company members and income from sponsorship of our annual event, we intend to be financially self-sufficient. To help scale Cool Food, until we reach financial self-sufficiency, funding is sought over the next three years.
Who is WRI? WRI is a global research organization that spans more than 60 countries. Our more than 1,000 experts and staff turn big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity and human wellbeing.
1 One Bite at a Time: Consumers and the transition to sustainable food. June 2020. BEUC. 2 Piloting citizen science methods to measure perceptions of carbon footprint and energy content of food. Armstrong, B. et al. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 2020.
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Edible Education: A Hopeful Solution
Opportunity:Underwrite the cost of designing and implementing a user-friendly, interactive web-database for the Edible Schoolyard Network – a global community of 5,800 programs and educational institutions offering hands-on, holistic learning experiences that connect children to food, nature, and each other.
Total Need: $100,000 to create a digital platform that re-organizes and re-visualizes the Edible Schoolyard Network, better connecting edible education programs and their curricular specialties to one another.
Since 1995, the Edible Schoolyard Project (ESYP) has helped educators worldwide build and sustain strong edible education programs in their home communities. Our internationally-recognized curriculum not only engages students in the growing and preparing of food; it fosters a rich and complex understanding of larger food systems. In kitchen and garden classrooms, students explore how their personal choices and consumption habits impact farmworkers, food chain workers, the environment, and the climate. They examine the crises of climate change, public health, and social inequality from a systems change perspective.
ESYP will harness a decade’s worth of data collection to transform our existing map of loosely-connected edible education programs into a dynamic, responsive online resource.
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Edible education prompts youth to consider their agency as change-makers and supports them in dreaming and planning for a better future.
All around the world, kitchen and garden educators play a critical role in preparing the rising generation to tackle the climate crisis. To support our network, ESYP shares resources that build programs’ overall capacity, with an eye towards preparing students to be informed and active citizens in advocating for large-scale systems change. In the last ten years, we’ve seen 5,856 programs from 48 U.S. states and 75 countries join the Edible Schoolyard Network.
As the edible education movement continues to grow, ESYP is focusing on building connections that better link our members to one another. Our role is crucial, as many school kitchen and garden programs are rarely offered formal support or field-specific professional development opportunities from administrators or school districts. What’s more, in the wake of school-closures due to COVID-19, thousands of kitchen and garden educators are struggling with increased feelings of isolation while adapting their work to the realities of distance learning.
Therefore, ESYP is turning its attention to harnessing a decade’s worth of data collection, and transforming our existing map of loosely-connected programs into a dynamic, responsive online resource.
This involves: 1. Implementing a New Technical Solution 2. Empowering our Network to Collaborate
In doing so, we want to create a tool that facilitates communication between programs, enables the coordination of virtual and in-person gatherings, and encourages the dissemination of curricular resources and training opportunities. Taking on the climate crisis requires all of us working together.
1. Implement a New Technical SolutionESYP will engage a team of software developers and web designers to build out an efficient and intuitive interface that activates the database of Edible Schoolyard Network members. We envision a platform that facilitates meaningful connections and enables an acceleration in learning and impact. The platform will make it easier for users to search by geography, scope of work, and areas of focus. A sophisticated tagging and sorting system and an enhanced search function will enable educators and administrators to find peers, make contact, and establish partnerships with ease. Educators will spend less time looking for help and more time engaging in dialogue about their specific needs.
Once implemented, we will survey our existing network to populate the newly introduced data fields. The final product will be a home for the edible education movement: a virtual space that showcases and celebrates the wide array of programs and diverse models that exist across the globe. The website would serve as both a hub for collaborative problem-solving and as a source of inspiration for new practitioners looking to adapt edible education to their own communities.
2. Empower our Network to CollaborateIn the last decade, ESYP has hosted in-person training sessions for more than 1,000 teachers, school administrators, and community leaders, who collectively serve more than 1 million students. Traditionally, ESYP has been the sole provider of professional development within the Network. However, with the widespread adoption of video-conferencing, ESYP can now invite colleagues from around the world to host training sessions and convene gatherings of their own.
ESYP will use the new web interface to promote these events to targeted audiences and empower more of our peers to share best practices and expertise. We are currently cultivating relationships with key partners to develop a robust lineup of webinars, lectures, workshops, and virtual gatherings that Network members would have access to year-round
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A more active network allows for and inspires the free exchange of curricular tools and practices. A more responsive network gives teachers an opportunity to hone their lessons by learning from the successes of others. The result is more students engaging in meaningful reflection – more students developing a sense of responsibility and agency. To connect educators and foster relationships between programs is to better prepare the next generation to be the change agents and responsible citizens that our future requires.
For 25 years, the Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley, California has served as the flagship site and innovation hub for the field of edible education. Now, we have an extraordinary opportunity to amplify the reach and impact of a powerful collective. A $100,000 investment in the technology that maps our Network would not only spark connections and offer critical support to existing programs; it would provide fertile ground for edible education programs to crop up in new schools and communities around the globe.
“Feeding one another, and offering children a healthy path to grow in body and spirit, is an act of the greatest love and respect for humanity. Caring for the land is an act of the greatest love and respect for the planet that nourishes us. Eating is an agricultural and political act, and a way to educate our senses. It can change the way we treat each other, and it can change the world.”
Alice Waters
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Food Heroes! Eat. Play. Learn
JUCCCE has been driving the greening of China since 2007. Today, our focus lies in reducing the impact of our food systems by changing the way people eat. Food Heroes, the first educational curriculum to comply with the 2019 EAT Lancet guidelines on sustainable diets, provides tools for kids and their families that help them make better food choices for both their personal and planetary health.
Food education is the most cost-effective intervention to combat the rising threats of obesity, diabetes, and climate change. In fact, the UN has said that food education is the ‘single golden lever’ to achieve all 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Read more about why food is the leading threat to our healthcare system, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions here.
Food Heroes is equally fun for students to learn and teachers to teach. The play-based activities include gamified learning, relatable Hero characters that show how to conquer food issues, and at-home activities to engage parents. We have engaged the hearts over one million children since 2013. Curriculum is available here.
Help us teach kids that they can change the world with every bite they take. Your donation of $100,000 will fund full implementation at two schools reaching over 1,000 children ages 5-9. An additional donation of $100,000 would support education to millions of children by funding the development and implementation of an online and in-person teacher training program for the implementation of Food Education all over the world.
Contact: Meredith [email protected]
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Building the Insights Engine to Drive U.S. Food Waste Reduction and Protect our Climate
SummaryReFED’s vision is to eliminate food waste in order to increase food security, spur economic growth, and protect the environment. ReFED produces data and insights and works with a diverse stakeholder network to catalyze collaboration, investment, and innovation to reach our national and global goals of reducing food waste by 50 percent by 2030. Success in the U.S. alone would mean reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the same amount as removing nearly 20 million cars from the road.
The Food Waste Problem and SolutionIn the U.S. we spend $218 billion a year growing, processing, transporting, and disposing of food that is never eaten. Solving this problem will have a significant impact on mitigating climate change as food waste is responsible for approximately 8 percent of global GHG emissions. In fact, the most recent P roject Drawdown report ranks reducing food waste as the number one most powerful climate solution, yet explicitly notes that it receives comparably little attention compared to other strategies, despite its ability to curb deforestation and associated emissions. In a 2019 IPCC Special Report, reducing food waste is one of the only solutions to both mitigate climate change and help adapt to its impacts as the occurrence of food shortages increase.
ReFED produces and shares its food waste data and insights to catalyze the systems-based approach required to inspire food waste investment, innovation, policy changes, and cross-sector
collaboration through its vast multi-stakeholder network. The results will not only reduce GHG emissions, but will also conserve water, soil, nonrenewable agricultural inputs, increase food access, and spur economic opportunities.
ReFED’s PlanProvide action-oriented solutions to food wasteReFED’s Data and Insights team uses economics and data to generate actionable solutions to reducing food waste. Starting with the 2016 Roadmap to Reduce U.S. Food Waste, ReFED has developed a trusted history of producing first-of-their-kind tools and resources that provide a full-supply-chain picture of U.S. food waste, cost-effective solutions to the problem, and methods to track progress. In 2020, ReFED will release the ReFED Insights Engine, a digital-first, continuously updated platform to house the next generation of data, insights, and guidance on food waste and solutions.
The Insights Engine will include interactive tools and resources that will allow stakeholders from across the food system to view, filter, and download data and insights to inform their strategy and decision making.
Catalyze investment & innovationReFED’s Capital and Innovation team works to catalyze the multi-billion dollar investment needed in food waste solutions identified through the Roadmap and the forthcoming Insights Engine.Through the team’s work with investors and innovators, they educate funders on emerging investment opportunities in food waste and support
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innovators in order to scale or replicate their service offering, with the ultimate goal of increasing effectiveness and efficiency. The team hosts food waste innovation challenges, accelerators, a database of solution providers, networking events, actively advises capital providers, and tracks philanthropic and private capital investment into solutions.
Engage and activate stakeholders across he food systemReFED’s Stakeholder Engagement team works to convene key stakeholders across private and public entities around food waste solutions and issues that require a systems-based approach.
The team hosts the annual Food Waste Summit, which brings together more than 400 action-oriented food businesses, investors, foundations, nonprofits, government agencies, solutions providers, and academics. The Stakeholder Engagement team advances solutions like standardized date labeling and food waste prevention packaging that require precompetitive collaboration in order to achieve industry and consumer adoption. Additionally the team leads measurement and communications efforts for the
Pacific Coast Collaborative, a group of west coast cities and states looking to collectively reduce food waste in their regions. ReFED’s efforts are further amplified through robust communications, including engagement at conferences, social and earned media, and through contributions on ReFED.com.
Funding RequestReFED seeks philanthropic capital from organizations committed to addressing climate change and other environmental impacts associated with food waste. A gift of $100,000 would meaningly support the ReFED Insights Engine build, deployment, and updates, as well as communications and stakeholder collaboration efforts essential for achieving our national goal to reduce U.S. food waste by 50 percent by 2030.
About ReFEDReFED is a U.S. based 501(c)(3) multi-stakeholder nonprofit that takes a data-driven approach to solve our national food waste problem. Our vision is to eliminate food waste in order to increase food security, spur economic growth, and protect the environment.
ReFED Insights Engine: Tools and Resources
ReFEDInsights Engine
U.S. Waste Food TrackerQuantifies the amount and cost of year-over-year food surplus happening in the U.S.
U.S. Food Waste Investment TrackerQuantifies the annual philanthropic, private and public investment in food waste solutions
U.S. Food Waste Policy TrackerLists current and pending state and federal food waste policies
Solution Fact SheetsSummarizes solutions, including market size, ROI, reduction potential, impacts and more
U.S. Food Waste Solutions ToolQuantifies current adoption rates and potential financial, environmental and
social impact of solutions
U.S. Food Waste Solution Provider DatabaseDatabase of filterable food waste
solution providers
U.S. Food Waste Impact CalculatorConverts tons of food waste diverted to
environmental and social impacts in a standardized method and format
Food Waste Data AllianceFood businesses, capitol providers, and
solution providers share food waste data for use in the Insights Engine
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Water resilience A Community of Cities committed to change our relationship with water around the world
SummaryWater is an essential component of life. Without water there would be no life on Earth. Climate change is already posing incredible threats to the availability, viability, and quality of water around the world. We must do more to immediately address the availability of this essential element on our planet, in order ensure the ongoing viability of habitats, food supplies, commerce and trade routes.
The Community of Cities on Water Resilience brings together cities and partners that aim to gain a better understanding of the underlying weaknesses of their urban water systems, while drawing on global and regional experience, state of the art research and innovative solutions to inform future investment decisions.
The Community of Cities leverages influence and knowledge from various experts and cities across the world to help diagnose water system vulnerabilities and identify solutions to deliver better outcomes focusing on long-term environmental, social, and economic benefits within water supply which are urgently required to ensure that cities and communities recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and adapt to climate change.The Resilient Cities Network is in pursuit of funding to strengthen capacity building activities for our cities and develop policy briefs and knowledge products that will highlight the needs, innovative solutions and investment opportunities for water related projects in cities worldwide. These solutions will be shared
during the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow.
ChallengeWater systems are the lifeblood of a city. 55% of the world’s population reside in cities today and an estimated 5 billion people – 60% of the world’s population - will live in cities in 2030. Cities in the Global South must cope with urbanization on an unprecedented scale, while those in the developed world wrestle with aging infrastructures and stretched budgets, placing enormous pressure on already strained water and wastewater supplies While there are a lot of different perceptions on what makes cities thrive, history proves that cities would not exist without water and that the water system of a city is decisive to its growth and resilience. Through the work with our cities, we know that water – either too much or too little – is a key risk.
As the world pledges to keep the planet from warming by more than 1.5 degree Celsius, cities have joined the frontline of climate action and have helped lead the way to support the transition to a low carbon economy. In some cases, this has meant that cities acted first and national governments followed. Being responsible for the daily lives of their residents, city officials and mayors realise and understand that providing a climate-safe future promises multiple benefits particularly in the wake of the current pandemic. The same can be advanced for the global supply of water.
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SolutionGovernments are understandably focused on immediate recovery from the health, economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, there is still the urgent need to adapt to water related shocks and stresses. Our Community of Cities on Water Resilience brings together local and national governments, research and academic organisations, the private sector, and financial institutions to discuss, share and jointly identify transformative water resilience actions in cities. Supporting cities to focus on a green and resilient recovery will allow them to cut emissions and build resilience to climate impacts and therefore puts us on track to seize the tremendous economic benefits from climate action and build an equitable economy that is more resilient to future shocks like COVID-19. Our Community of Cities will accelerate action through the following ways:
LearnPeer to peer learning between cities, experts, practitioners, and partners facilitated through regular webinars, trainings and events organised by cities for cities to support the exchange of best practices and build capacity.
Co-DesignTogether with our partners and cities we will identify urgent climate investments in cities and co-design multi-city action programs to facilitate implementation. Through the Community we will group cities around common water resilience challenges and connect them to a network of partners and solutions as well as funders that will help to implement the programs.
AdvocateTogether with our partners from the Water Adaptation Hub of the Global Center on Adaptation we will connect the Community to the international conversation leading towards COP26. We will design and implement a high-profile media and social media campaign, with endorsement of global experts, that promote water climate action in cities. Collective action and performance will be captured and published during COP26 and celebrated as part of a joint event.
This Community of Cities will be officially launched during the Climate Adaptation Summit in Rotterdam in January 2021 together with our partner Deltares, an independent institute for applied research in the field of water and subsurface in the Netherlands, and the cities of Cape Town, Kigali and Surat. We have started to engage with member cities and other partners to design a detailed program on engagement, events, and knowledge products that we intend to implement before and align with the lead up to the COP26.
Resilient Cities Network will coordinate and host this Community of Cities while Deltares will be the leading technical partner. The Community is open to any city regardless its location and membership in the network.
DeliverablesOver the next five years we aim to accelerate water climate action in cities with a special focus on vulnerable communities. With our cities and partners, we will co-create, test and implement solutions, build local capacity and encourage investments in city water resilience.
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FundingWe want to ensure that this Community of Cities will operate beyond the initial start-up philanthropic capital. Through partnerships and sponsorship of events and knowledge products, we intend to be financially self-sufficient by the end of 2021. We are seeking an investment of $100,000 to enable us to increase the number of events, and trainings for our cities, and develop policy briefs and knowledge products that will highlight the needs, innovative solutions and investment opportunities for water related projects in cities worldwide.
About Resilient Cities NetworkResilient Cities Network (R-Cities) is a global city-led non-profit organisation that brings together knowledge, practice, partnerships, and funding to empower cities to help them build a safe, equitable, and sustainable future for all. The network integrates the combined effort of urban practitioners, city governments, and communities in a collective, comprehensive, and well-coordinated call-to-action to deliver urban impact-driven resilient solutions.
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The Climate Finance Lab - Cooling as a Service Unlocking investments in clean and efficient cooling by mainstreaming the innovative pay-per-use business model.
SummarySpace cooling consumes 10% of the world’s electricity. Cooling demand is growing fast as economic and demographic growth becomes more focussed in hotter countries, and is set to triple by 2050. Cooling as a Service (CaaS) is an innovative pay-per-use business model for clean and efficient cooling that was endorsed by the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance in 2019.
Funding is now sought to continue the support provided by the Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy (BASE) to technology providers, investors and potential cooling service buyers from around the world to implement the model.
ChallengeToday, space cooling represents 10% of global electricity consumption – equivalent to 2.5 times the electricity use of Africa - and demand is expected to triple by 2050. The average efficiency of cooling systems sold today is less than half of what is typically available on shelves – and one third of best available technology. Therefore, the cumulative savings potential by 2050 is enormous, equivalent to all the electricity consumed in the EU in 2016 and worth 2.9 USD trillion. In addition, human-made HFCs used in cooling are powerful greenhouse gases which significantly contribute to climate change, and must be phased down and replaced with existing alternatives. Moreover, in many regions, cooling is not only a comfort but also a mean of survival with air conditioning and refrigeration necessary for
habitable living conditions, food security, and life-saving healthcare.
SolutionCooling as a Service (CaaS) is an innovative pay-per-use business model that enables customers to base their decision on lifecycle cost rather than on the purchase price of the equipment. The model was endorsed by the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance and aims to facilitate clients to benefit from high end and efficient cooling technology without the need of an up- front investment.
CaaS employs a servitization strategy and involves end customers paying for the cooling they receive,rather than the physical product or infrastructure that delivers the cooling. The technology provider installs and maintains the cooling equipment, recovering the costs through periodic payments made by the customer. These payments are fixed-cost-per-unit for the cooling service delivered (for example, dollars per tonnes of refrigeration, or units of cooled air), and are based on actual usage.
The technology provider also pays for the electricity consumed by the equipment, which is an incentive to install the most energy-efficient equipment, and to perform high-quality maintenance. The technology provider can recapitalise through innovative mechanisms such as sale and leaseback, or project finance schemes. A payment guarantee can be established to reduce the risk of default from the end-client, which can be endorsed to the banks
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to reduce their exposure to payment default by technology providers seeking the use of the above-mentioned financing mechanisms. In addition, the CaaS model supports a circular-economy model, by incentivising technology providers to make their equipment modular, with parts being reusable/recyclable since the ownership of the equipment is never transferred to the client.
The CaaS model helps to overcome many of the current barriers that hinder investments in energyefficient equipment. The customer benefits from lower whole-life equipment costs, the absence of upfront capital investments, industry-leading equipment uptime made reliable through revolutionised predictive maintenance practices, and a transparent pricing structure. The technology suppliers will benefit from a long-term sustainable revenue stream, and access to new potential clients who are interested in the service, but not willing to make the upfront investments for high quality efficiency equipment. Although interest in service-based competitive strategies is not new and broadly applied in sectors such as software and photocopying services, the concept is still fairly new territory in the energy efficiency and cooling sector.
The Basel Agency of Sustainable Energy (BASE) is leading the CaaS Initiative on behalf of K-CEP to support market stakeholders to implement the CaaS model. BASE has developed standardized contracts, pricing models, financing structures to enable the CaaS model, and has developed material to guide users on how to get started. BASE is supporting technology providers and investors to implement demonstration projects in Mexico, India and South Africa.
In January 2020 BASE opened the CaaS Incubator for which 5 companies were selected out of 35 high-quality applications to implement further CaaS projects in Argentina, Costa Rica, Grenada, Nigeria and India, in sectors including education, cold chain, and agriculture. In addition, the initiative has been raising awareness and building capacity among market stakeholders through matchmaking events, workshops, webinars, publications, and
collaborations with networks such as the World Green Building Council. A CaaS Alliance has been established and currently includes over 30 organizations including global AC manufacturers, investors, and more.
DeliverablesCooling as a Service is still at an early stage in the adoption lifecycle. BASE is currently supporting the innovators who are working hard to pilot the model, and these companies as well as other potential early adopters would benefit strongly from a continuation of the support efforts currently being carried out.
FundingA grant of $100,000 would enable us to support the implementation of further pilot projects. This could be done either by extending the support provided to the technology providers currently working on the implementation of the model, or by offering technical assistance to other technology providers, for instance some of those that have been short-listed but not selected through the CaaS Incubator.
Who Is Base?The Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy is a Swiss not for profit foundation and a Specialised Partner of UN Environment. BASE develops innovative, actionable financial strategies and market-driven solutions to unlock investment in sustainable energy and to tackle climate change. Since 2018, BASE leads the Cooling as a Service Initiative to accelerate the adoption of the pay-per-use model to accelerate the adoption of clean and efficient cooling.
Contact usThomas MotmansSustainable Energy Finance [email protected] Karamitsos Senior Business [email protected] della MaggioraSenior Climate Change and Environmental Finance [email protected]
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A. Climate Visuals Maximising the impact of climate change imagery.
SummaryImagery leads or supports nearly all forms of climate communication and digital messaging; but its generation, curation and application is too often disengaged from the social research into what images can work across societies and can actually generate impact. Climate Visuals, a programme of Climate Outreach, is unique in both having developed an robust evidence base - translated into 7 Core Principles - and a freely accessible image library. With these tools we can use images to drive public engagement, promote action, and tackle polarisation. Funding is sought to enable Climate Visuals to explore entry points into the image value chains of southeast Asia, where it will support media, campaign movements and civil society to change how their target audiences see and act upon climate change.
The ChallengeAll too often, the climate change imagery the world sees is either poor quality or ineffective, aesthetic and illustrative, but not emotionally impactful or salient. We know that imagery must embody people-centred narratives, positive solutions and, wherever possible, be tailored directly to the demography and known responses of its audience. Climate Visuals is the world’s only evidence-based, climate change image programme but since our establishment in 2016, our research, expertise and contact base has focused on the countries and media networks of North America and Western Europe. Nations across southeast Asia have high emissions trajectories but low levels of public engagement and climate
concern, and are currently underserved in imagery that reflects their values, their climate realities and their platforms.
The ImpactClimate Visuals supports the generation of a social mandate for climate change, by delivering imagery that can drive the public engagement and the cross-societal buy-in that is essential to decarbonise our world. We amplify impact through partnerships: with our team supporting a broad spectrum of organisations and initiatives, using our evidence base, but targeted to their audiences and the climate action they want to bring about. For example, a partnership with Getty Images put our 7 Core Principles for Climate Change Communication in front of a global audience of over 500million people and provided specific guidance on imagery use to their network of more than 340-thousand professional communicators.
The ApproachIdentify the target country or sub-region - where there is the greatest potential for Climate Visuals to deliver climate impact (in terms of driving public engagement, promoting action, and tackling polarisation through visual media).
Conduct research - in the target country or sub-region to extend or identify new principles that can guide impactful visuals (through stakeholder interviews, literature reviews, picture research, public engagement and commissioning).
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Develop and disseminate - work with key stakeholders (e.g dominant media agencies, influential civil society) to produce guidelines on commissioning, curating, promoting and sharing impactful imagery.
Update the Climate Visuals library - to include target-country specific, accessible, exemplary reference material that can be accessed and used by all key stakeholders.
Develop a strategy that identifies how to roll out the guidance in the target country / region in order to deliver the greatest impact (e.g identifying and working with campaign groups, national and international media that are able to target the most relevant audiences in terms of reducing emissions and polarisation).
B. Southern Narratives Supporting climate change advocates in the Global South.
Summary Responding to climate change requires accelerated action across society and around the world, by placing people at the heart of tackling this critical issue. Technological advances as well as regulations, policies and laws are necessary for tackling climate change but these won’t work in the long term without the active engagement and buy-in of citizens. Our mission is to generate this social mandate for action on climate change. Through the Southern Narratives project we aim to equip key climate advocates in the Global South with an evidence-based understanding on how to engage their audiences using authentic narratives, imagery and spokespeople, to create a long-term legacy of key organisations and individuals who can carry this work on in the future.
The ChallengeClimate advocates trying to engage audiences in the Global South have historically had access to far fewer resources, training and support on what makes impactful climate change engagement than their counterparts in Europe, North America or Australia. In countries where emissions trajectories are high but public concern and awareness of risks are low, there is a need to build these communication skills, as well as the community to foster them in the long-term. In addition, the evidence base on climate change communications is also drawn almost entirely from a narrow and fairly unrepresentative set of nations in north America and western Europe. Work is needed to generate new data and narratives in countries with different values, cultures and experiences.
The ImpactWe will work with organisations already engaged with communities where there is the potential to generate a social mandate for climate change. We will build long-term capacity and skills by tapping into pre-existing, influential networks and individuals. We will co-identify moments where our interventions can make a significant difference to public engagement and/or governmental action. And we will identify narratives that trigger action. Climate Outreach has successfully carried out similar work in Northern India, Alberta, Canada and three countries in the MENA region - Tunisia, Egypt and Mauritania.
The ApproachBuilding the approach - Climate Outreach will build an advisory group of advocates and academics from across the Global South who will provide advice and support.
Upskilling, capacity building, and community building - in the new country or region, Climate Outreach will focus on seeking out and building a strong relationship with a national partner. The partner may be an organisation or network, and will be influential within the climate communications sphere in their country. Climate Outreach will offer a toolkit of services to the partner - materials on effective climate change engagement, adapted and translated to the cultural and national context;
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training based on collaboration and feedback; and organisational strategic support - advising on public engagement strategies, proposed frames, messages, and imagery.
Research - Climate Outreach will build connections with academics in-country and undertake a literature review of current climate change communications research. Climate Outreach will train national partners in professional research skills, enabling them to co-design and deliver new climate change communications research, so they can explore authentic language that will work with audiences that they identify as important in running campaigns, and be a genuine contribution to in-country literature.
Building longer term impact - guided by need Climate Outreach and the national partner will use this as the basis for developing a longer term project. This may consist of a fuller delivery of Climate Outreach’s global narratives methodology, using a citizen science approach to design, test and promote culturally specific narratives across a range of national audiences, to change mindsets, generate new norms and drive personal and collective climate action. Longer term work could also involve supporting the partner in utilising narratives in practice - for example through campaigns and communications strategy. It could also mean supporting the partner in developing a learning network.
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Project lead: EAT Project partners: City of Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), World Resources Institute (WRI), Gehl Architects
SummaryLaunched in 2019, Shifting Urban Diets aims to demonstrate how the findings of the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health can be operationalized in the city context. This project will enable cities to set smarter and more ambitious food system targets with greater accountability and measurable benefits to climate, environment, public health, and societal wellbeing. With Copenhagen as a prototype and other cities consulted throughout the process, we aim to demonstrate how scientific targets for food systems can be operationalized in a city context while strengthening Copenhagen’s food strategy and its ability to make healthy and sustainable foods the default option for city dwellers: convenient, affordable, and appealing.
ChallengeFood production accounts for 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions. With the inclusion of food distribution and land use, its impact rises to 30%. Cities are becoming increasingly important in shaping the trajectory of food systems: over half the global population lives in an urban area, and by 2050, 80% of all food produced will be consumed in cities.
Copenhagen aims to be a world-leading green and livable city with healthy and sustainable food as a default. Currently, the city faces challenges achieving this ambition, including understanding and quantifying the impact of its food system on the
environment and climate, as well as an unfavorable public perception around healthy and sustainable meals. How can the city be certain its food system interventions are actually contributing to improved outcomes, and how can those preparing and consuming food be brought on board? Developing an approach informed by global science, establishing measurable local targets, and engaging food providers and consumers in shifting diets will help overcome these challenges.
Solution & DeliverablesShifting Urban Diets translates global research on healthy and sustainable food systems to the city context through the following services:1. Establishing a science-based target for the climate
impact of the local food system (multi-regional input-output analysis and life cycle analysis);
2. Place-based approaches to improve urban food environments (urban design methods, including surveys and interviews) – with an emphasis on children and youth;
3. Training materials, guidelines, and capacity building programs to enable public kitchens adopt the EAT-Lancet recommendations, and;
4. Dissemination via city networks and partnerships.
The project focuses on Copenhagen as a pilot, with the ambition to develop and implement methodologies and approaches that can be adapted and replicated in other urban contexts.
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The main efforts in 2021 will be on packaging and disseminating the methods, results, and learnings to enable uptake by other cities in the Nordic region and globally, including member cities of the EAT-C40 Food Systems Network – a network of mega-cities collaborating to combat climate change via transforming food systems. This packaging and dissemination will likely take the form of a website with step-by-step guidance for the first three services described above and will be developed in consultation with other cities and a broader set of experts.
Ambition – Why is this initiative needed?• Helps cities understand what the EAT-Lancet
recommendations mean in their own context (what does a healthy and sustainable diet look like in a specific geographic or cultural setting?);
• Helps cities understand their baseline and how to measure progress (what is the climate footprint of their food system, how much do they need to reduce this to align with global scientific targets?);
• Provides cities with the step-by-step tools and guidance to transform public meals (thereby setting the trend for citizens, with a strong focus on youth and school food) and improve community-level food environments (thereby encouraging citizens, particularly youth, to make healthier and more sustainable food choices in their daily lives).
While Shifting Urban Diets has developed and implemented approaches for these elements in Copenhagen, the focus in 2021 will be turning these approaches into toolkits or guides that other stakeholders can take up and implement in their own contexts. There is great opportunity to work closely with additional cities in the future to help them with the adaptation and implementation.
FundingThe funding needed in 2021 is 100,000 EUR. This investment would enable us to develop toolkits and guidelines in a way that enables other cities and urban food experts to adapt and replicate the approaches that have been tested in Copenhagen in
their own contexts – including through workshops and consultations to meaningfully engage these stakeholders in the process. This step is crucial for the Shifting Urban Diets project to realize its full impact and for supporting additional cities to take ambitious food systems action.
We invite you to join us in supporting cities to accelerate urban food systems actions that lead to climate action, positive health outcomes, and sustained equity. Please contact Sebastian Nagenborg from our Development Team to find out more ([email protected], +47 457 76 164).
About EATEAT is the science-based global platform for food systems transformation. Our vision is a fair and sustainable global food system for healthy people and planet – leaving no one behind.
EAT has over the past few years elevated its position from a regional organization to become a leading global force and change agent on food systems transformation. The way we produce, consume, and distribute food is at the heart of human health, social equity, climate change and biodiversity, making food the single most important lever for achieving the SGDs and Paris Agreement. As such, food and EAT’s work cuts across all 17 SDGs.
EAT’s framework for change consists of a dynamic three-way interaction across knowledge, engagement, and action. The generation of new knowledge provides direction and an evidence base for change. Creative engagement with partners across business, policy and science amplifies messages and spurs action for change. Partnerships inspired through engagement and informed by knowledge enable actions leading to change and impact at scale.
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Project Drawdown: Advancing to “Drawdown 2.0”
Project Drawdown’s mission is to help the world reach “Drawdown”— the point in the future when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline, thereby stopping catastrophic climate change — as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.
We are now launching the second phase of Project Drawdown — Drawdown 2.0 — to reach a new level of influence and impact. We value your support in helping to reach our goals. Core areas include:
Drawdown Research. At its core, Project Drawdown is a research organization. We continuously identify and assess the most promising solutions to climate change — across multiple sectors and technologies — and share those findings with the world. During the last year, we have thoroughly revised our assessment of climate solutions, first presented in our 2017 book, Drawdown. Thanks to the efforts of over 30 talented researchers, we have updated everything with the latest science and economic data, added new groundbreaking solutions, and reorganized the work into a more powerful, teachable framework. In the coming years, we will continue to review, analyze, and assess climate solutions — and share this research with the world.
Drawdown Communications. Project Drawdown conducts an ongoing review and analysis of climate solutions to provide the world with a current and robust resource. In February 2020,
we unveiled The Drawdown Review — a free, on-line book that provides an up-to-date view on the latest science, technology, economics, and policies related to climate solutions. The Drawdown Review will come out annually, with additional in-depth “Drawdown Primer” publications in between. The Drawdown Review is core to our efforts to respond nimbly to the rapidly evolving landscape of solutions and the urgency of the challenge humanity faces. Widespread awareness and understanding of climate solutions is vital to kindle agency and effect change worldwide, across individual, community, organizational, regional, national, and global scales. People and institutions of all kinds, in all places, have roles to play in this great transformation, and the solutions presented in The Drawdown Review are a synthesis of collective wisdom and collective action unfolding around the globe.
Drawdown Learn. We are also launching an educational arm of Project Drawdown, connecting teachers and other educators who bring climate solutions to their classrooms and public audiences. The Drawdown Learn network is enabling educators to share curricula, course materials, and teaching methods with their colleagues worldwide. Moreover, Project Drawdown will offer free, on-line mini courses and educational resources on climate solutions — including offerings on the science behind climate solutions, effective personal actions to address climate change, and the role of the food system in solving the climate crisis.
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Drawdown Communities. We are also moving forward a new effort to network community-based Drawdown organizations, which have sprung up all over the world, and provide critical resources to them. This will help bring the science and solutions of Project Drawdown to grassroots climate efforts in communities worldwide.
Drawdown Labs. Project Drawdown has recently piloted Drawdown Labs, an effort to catalyze bold, new business leadership on climate change. While many companies are now offering to be “carbon neutral” sometime mid-century, Drawdown Labs and our member companies are looking to go far beyond that, and explore new strategies for businesses to implement even bigger climate solutions with their partner communities, suppliers, customers, and employees. Working together, we believe businesses can help lead a global transition to Drawdown, deploying climate solutions far beyond their company walls.
Project Drawdown will also consider how we can guide the flow of capital into the most effective climate solutions. We are exploring new partnerships to bring Drawdown’s thinking and solutions to climate funders, particularly foundations, philanthropists, and impact investors (who are looking for environmental, social, and financial return). We plan to offer tailored educational and research programs to grant-makers and impact investors, helping to inform their critical decisions.
Drawdown Lift. We are also launching a new program to explore the potential for “win-win” solutions to extreme poverty and climate change. We already know that many climate solutions provide economic, health, and education benefits for everyone, including communities living in extreme poverty. We have already identified an important subset of these, and we will work to find additional best practices to produce co-benefits to climate change, human health, education, and economic development. In this new project, we will investigate and promote the best “win-win” climate and poverty solutions, with a special focus on applications in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
Project Drawdown The world’s leading resource for climate solutions.
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