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.
The community-based adaptation (CBA) conference series has established itself as the leading global, practitioner-focused climate adaptation conference. This year’s CBA will be digital – but it will still have community at the center.
At COP25, young people rose as government remained seated. We spoke to some of the many youth organizations involved at the conference on climate change.
A growing public and political awareness and a growing grassroots power base is shaping 2019 as a year of expanded opportunity around climate change solutions.
In October 2018, CJRF co-sponsored a historic gathering: the First Peoples’ Convening on Climate-Forced Displacement with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) and the Alaska Institute for Justice. Held in Girdwood, Alaska, the three-day conference brought together more than 60 community leaders and advocates from around the world to address how climate change is forcing indigenous communities off their land.
In June 2018, IMPACT Finance and Administration Officer Elizabeth Silakan, Program Officer John Tingoi and Samburu Women Trust Director Jane Meriwas shared their thoughts on collaboration and movement building for land management and land rights.
In June 2018, Christian Aid Kenya Country Director John Kitui and Program Officer Nicholas Abuya spoke with us about their work to strengthen the participation of women and youth in climate change policy work.
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