Converging with Urgency at the COP27 Climate Summit
Peasant, Indigenous, and feminist movements challenged false solutions and greenwashing at the conference while offering up real solutions coming from those most impacted by the climate crisis.
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Building a New Vision for the World We Want
Chief Ninawa writes at an important moment: the end of the COP27 UN Climate Change Summit and the commemoration of the Indigenous Day of Mourning.
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Relief, Recovery or Change?
As Giovanni Roberto from Comedores Sociales writes, the contrast between the official government response to Hurricane Fiona and social movements’ responses could not be more clear. Just as clear is the importance of providing resources to real long-term solutions for Puerto Rico.
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VIDEO: Supporting Puerto Rico Post-Fiona
Fiona is not just a natural disaster, but a human-made one. Real relief means both immediate response and long-term solutions, led from the bottom-up.
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Rising Up for Health (and Winning) in Louisiana
Following tireless community organizing led by Rise St. James, residents of St. James Parish, Louisiana, have successfully stopped the development of what would have been the largest methanol factory in North America.
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Grassroots International Formalizes West Africa Program
We are celebrating the movements, their accomplishments, and their political visions as we publicly announce the formalization of our West Africa program.
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Grassroots Intermediaries Shift Philanthropy Towards Climate Justice
Grassroots International is profiled in a new report on climate philanthropy highlighting the critical role of grassroots intermediaries in moving funds to movements on the front lines of the climate crisis.
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Grassroots Climate Justice Movements Get Results
New briefs by the CLIMA Fund highlight how grassroots climate justice movements are advancing systemic and policy change.
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Feeding the World, Cooling the Planet
For the month of April, we’re looking at the connection between the rights of peasants and the health of Mother Earth.
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New Resources on Building Grassroots Power for Climate Justice
The CLIMA Fund — of which Grassroots International is a member — recently released both a series of short videos and an impact report on its 5-year anniversary of funding grassroots climate solutions.
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Raising a United Voice for Indigenous Lives and Mother Earth
As we celebrate Earth Day today, let us celebrate the Indigenous movements at the center of defending the Earth — movements like our partner COPINH, The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras.
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In 2022, Solidarity Remains Our Way Forward
For January 2022, Grassroots is looking at the year ahead, the social conditions impacting our and our partners’ work, and the stories of resistance and solution-building we’ll be sharing with our supporters.
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Families in Brazil Face Devastating Floods; Social Movements Respond
Given the hardship these families are going through now and for months to come, we are calling upon all people of conscience to take action in solidarity.
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EMERGENCY: Stand with Flooded Families in Brazil
Since last week, tens of thousands of families have faced devastating flooding in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The floods have displaced more than 93,000 people and have taken 26 lives. People are scrounging for their few remaining belongings, and...
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In Louisiana, Justice Means Fighting for Every Breath
In an area where air quality are among the worst in the country, RISE St. James is working tirelessly to change the landscape.
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2021 in Review and Resistance
While recognizing that with every victory comes a new front of struggle in collective efforts to transform the world, we cap off 2021 with twelve movement successes involving our partners and allies whom we have been honored to accompany.
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Rooting Climate Justice in Indigenous Resistance
Grassroots International stands with Indigenous movements at the forefront of the global climate justice movement. They are building upon centuries-long struggles for Indigenous sovereignty over land, water and other forms of territory.
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Grassroots Intermediaries are a Path to Climate Justice
After the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, it's more important than ever for philanthropy to fund real climate solutions led by frontline communities.
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Real Solutions, Not Net Zero: A Global Call for Climate Action
Grassroots International joined over 700 other organizations and movements to call for real solutions to solve climate change — not a continuation of harm dressed up as « net zero » carbon budgeting. Unfortunately, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland...
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Climate Solutions from Soil to Seed
This World Food Day, we uplift the work of social movements to end hunger and cool the planet through agroecology and food sovereignty. We commit to standing with them for the long haul and invite other funders to join us.