Category: Spotlights

Voices From COP30: The Stories, Relationships, and Movements Shaping Climate Justice

When people think about global climate gatherings like COP30, they often picture negotiations, policy announcements, and world leaders on a stage. But beneath the headlines, something else is happening. Across meeting rooms, community spaces, riverside conversations, and movement gatherings, Indigenous leaders, women organizers, farmers, youth activists, and frontline communities are building relationships, sharing strategies, and […]

The Earth’s Lungs: Community-Powered Forest Protection Around the World

  The world’s rainforests—from the Amazon to the Congo Basin to the Leuser Ecosystem—are Earth’s lungs.  Just as human lungs are essential to life, the Earth’s lungs are essential to the collective equilibrium of the planet and the beings that call it home—including humans. They absorb carbon dioxide, uphold essential ecosystems, and underscore the deep […]

Grassroots Action for a Just Energy Transition

  “Achieving a just transition must go beyond simple technology replacement to renewable resources, encompassing comprehensive remediation of the historical damage caused by mining. This includes restoring affected ecosystems, ensuring health programs that address the after-effects of pollution, and a labor transition that diversifies economic opportunities for local communities. All of this must be done […]

Webs of Connection and Care: Locally Led Conservation for Global Impact

  Grassroots conservation movements—led by local and Indigenous communities with invaluable knowledge built on generations of peaceful ecological stewardship—are essential to our collective future. Earth is home to a deeply interconnected web of living beings. From Magellenic penguins in Argentina to mighty Sumatran pines to colorful jeweled chameleons in Madagascar, the livelihoods of each and […]

Whose Knowledge Shapes the Future?

  At Global Greengrants Fund, we have learned through decades of partnership with grassroots movements that the most important knowledge rarely fits neatly into predetermined frameworks. It lives in relationships, in memory, in cultural practice, and in deep, place-based understanding. Sometimes, it takes a different kind of map to make that visible. In Ecuador’s Yasuní […]

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