Greengrants Grantees Receive Ramon Magsaysay Award
Three Greengrants grantees and colleagues are among the winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Award this year!
Carteret Islanders: The Story of the First Climate Refugees
In Papua New Guinea, the Carteret Islands are disappearing. Sea-level rise directly related to climate change will soon make the over 3,000 people who call these islands home some of the world’s first climate refugees. Greengrants grantee, Tulele Peisa Incorporated has been instrumental in raising global awareness about the fate of the islands, the islanders, and global climate change.
18 Years Later – Our First Grant
Dear Friend, It has been 18 years since Burma’s first environmental and human rights organization, Green November 32, received its first external funding. This funding came from Global Greengrants Fund, and was the very first grant Greengrants made. The grant was an incredible boost for a struggling organization based in the war-torn borderlands of one […]
How Brazil’s Grassroots Environmentalism is Making an Impact
The Center for Socio-Environmental Support (CASA), the Brazilian member of the Greengrants Alliance of Funds, is supporting effective action and ways of life that are already making a difference. Though often obscured by economies of scale, these movements are cooling the planet and building the foundation for a more sustainable economic model the world needs to survive the future.
Landmark Case against Texaco for Amazon Pollution Nears End
Sixteen years after the lawsuit was first filed by Ecuadoran residents of the Amazon rainforest against Texaco—now owned by Chevron—for polluting their lands and waters, the end is finally in sight. At stake is the largest damages award for an environmental case in history—more than $27 billion.