In our sixteenth year of supporting grassroots environmental groups around the world, Global Greengrants Fund is proud to look back on 2009 as a year of landmark victories and worldwide recognition for the work of our grantees.
Glenn Switkes, a longtime ally of Global Greengrants Fund and estimable activist, passed away last month. Glenn was passionately committed to defending the Amazon rainforest, rivers, and indigenous peoples, and is remembered fondly as “a river warrior with unbreakable passion.”
Greengrants recognizes the critical importance of responding to the disastrous earthquake in Haiti that occurred on Tuesday, January 12th.
December 7, 2009, marks the beginning of two weeks of global climate change discussions in Copenhagen, Denmark. The 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Vitae Civilis, a Greengrants Brazil grantee and organization of former advisor Rubens Born, is part of a larger coalition of environmental groups and humanitarian organizations calling for a strong agreement to come out of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December.
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