What Canada’s climate leaders need now
New research reveals a dynamic, self-assured, and growing climate justice movement in Canada. Four actionable themes emerged about what this movement needs now and how funders can grow its impact and power.
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How philanthropy supported the biggest GHG reduction in North American history
Philanthropy’s role in closing the last coal-fired power plant in Ontario 12 years ago, one of Canada’s great clean-economy achievements, offers some urgent lessons for how the sector can be most effective today.
Inuit face food insecurity, cultural loss 13 years into Labrador caribou hunting ban
This is the first piece from Frey Blake-Pijogge, a writing fellow working with The Philanthropist Journal and The Independent in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Why the Trottier Foundation is following the science and betting big on climate solutions
The family foundation’s commitment to the Climate Champions initiative is a call to action for other funders to adopt a climate lens and grant in this space. Lorne Trottier offers three reasons why they should.
Facing a moral conundrum head on: Funding in the time of climate crisis
Suncor Energy Foundation, which celebrated 25 years in 2023 – the hottest year on record – doesn’t shy away from difficult conversations about where its money comes from.
How an ecology fellowship leverages philanthropy to allow early-career change-makers to flourish
The Liber Ero Fellowship program gives highly trained conservation and biodiversity scientists, not yet bogged down by teaching, the tools and resources to make a difference at the beginning of their careers.
Transition finance: An important strategy on the path to net-zero
Within and among the boards of charitable foundations, a range of viewpoints may exist in terms of what constitutes climate leadership and how to effect meaningful change on the path toward a net-zero-carbon economy. How funds are invested matters, write Greg Elliott and Monika Freyman – and allocating invested assets in ways that accelerate the pace of change matters most.
What about the gendered impacts of the climate crisis?
Governments have been slow to act on the disproportionate weight of climate crises on women and gender-diverse people, writes Paulette Senior, and Canada is no exception. But philanthropists are well positioned to invest in underfunded solutions that leave no one behind, she argues.
