Climate Justice Resilience Fund (CJRF) is seeking three new members to join its Governing Board. CJRF is a participatory climate justice fund that supports community-based organizations working at the frontlines of climate change, investing in locally led solutions...
This is a new role created as part of CJRF’s recent growth. The Director of Finance and Operations will lead the organization’s core operations, including financial planning, budgeting, contracting, and internal systems, supporting a growing international team.
The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) launched its flagship publication Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, calling for a step-change in global efforts to finance and scale locally led adaptation.
Farhana Yamin and Maria Alejandra Escalante share why we need to go all in on climate justice at South By Southwest in March. Watch the full conversation.
To encourage justice-centered funding, CJRF launched a fund re-design process in November that aims to shift decision-making power from our staff and board members into the hands of activists and practitioners. Learn more about this design process and our recent $7M grant from MacKenzie Scott that we will leverage in support of phase 2.
Hello from South by Southwest (SXSW)! SXSW is an annual gathering that is best known for its conference and festivals that celebrate the convergence of tech, film, education, and culture. This year’s conference includes a Climate Change track which covers topics from renewable energy to policy change to just transition. Hear what CJRF will be up to this week from Director Heather McGray.
For two weeks in November, Glasgow, Scotland hosted the largest and most important United Nations climate negotiations session since the Paris Agreement in 2015. Called COP26, the conference brought together official representatives of nearly 200 countries, plus thousands of participants from business, academia, and civil society.
In October, we posted the first excerpt from “Existing Within and Between: A Script on Climate Action & Intersectionality.” This script uses a play format to creatively explore the state of the intersectionality conversation in the climate justice community of practice. This is the second of four scenes.
Over the next few months, we will be posting excerpts from “Existing Within and Between: A Script on Climate Action & Intersectionality.” This script uses a play format to creatively explore the state of the intersectionality conversation in the climate justice community of practice.