Category: Analysis

The Power of Disability-Led Climate Movements

“Persons with disabilities are emerging as influential leaders advocating for climate justice and advancing sustainable solutions grounded in knowledge and lived experience.” — Dwi Ariyani, Disability Rights and Climate Justice Board Advisor, Associate Director for Peer and Collective Learning for the Disability Rights Fund and the Disability Rights Advocacy Fund This International Day of Persons […]

Funding Youth-Led Grassroots Movements Fosters Relentless Hope

By Joshua Amponsem, B de Gersigny, Laura García, and Nathan Méténier ‘‘Irrespective of the powers that create climate challenges, youth create space for hope. We continue to prove these powers wrong when we show up, and we continue to create change within our communities.’’ — Jhannel Tomlinson, Global Greengrants Next Generation Climate Board Advisor and […]

Funding a Just Transition: Two Case Studies from Latin America

Grassroots climate and environmental justice movements are essential to a just transition away from extractive energy systems. From opposing East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) construction in Uganda and Tanzania to building autonomous solar energy systems that connect Indigenous villages in Ecuador, movements are pushing back against fossil fuel expansion and creating community-driven energy solutions. […]

From the Ground Up: Accompanying Grassroots Movements Leading Systemic Change

Co-written by Global Greengrants Fund and Grassroots International When hundreds of farmers, fishers, Indigenous leaders, feminists, and workers from 102 countries gathered in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in September 2025 for the Third Nyéléni Global Forum, they carried with them a powerful truth: that solutions to the intertwined crises of climate, hunger, and inequality already exist in […]

Why donors should put their trust and funds in the hands of young people

By Hannah Dillon, Director of The Iris Project Photo credit: Dana Romanoff Photography, LLC It’s no secret that the philanthropy sector needs a shake-up. For too long, well-intentioned environmental initiatives have been designed in isolation from the communities they purport to serve, by people in the Global North who lack both the imagination and lived […]

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