CJRF’s summer newsletter focuses on our loss and damage efforts in partnership with the Scottish Government. You can read more about our new loss and damage grants and meet our Loss and Damage Program Officer Ayesha Dinshaw. We are also recruiting for our new constituent-led board! Read more in our Summer Newsletter.

“Loss and damage” is a term used in United Nations climate negotiations to refer to the consequences of climate change that go beyond what people can adapt to. Loss and damage also refers to situations when options for adaptation exist but communities do not have the resources to access them. This blog intends to clarify what loss and damage is and describe different ways to address these challenges for those hardest hit by climate change.

As part of our commitment to generate learning from our portfolio, CJRF is piloting a new space for partners to learn from and connect with one another. Under the umbrella of the CJRF Learning Program, this new CJRF Solution Series enables partners to share lessons, challenges, and impactful outcomes of their work with the CJRF community, funders, and other climate practitioners.

The Climate Justice Resilience Fund (CJRF) is embarking on an exciting transformation from a donor-led fund to a fully participatory, movement-facing and constituent-led fund. As a key step in this change process, our current Review Board (comprised of funders) has decided to hand off leadership to a new governing Board comprised of activists, practitioners, thinkers, and others. We are now recruiting 7-9 members for this new governing Board, which will oversee and support the second six-year phase of the CJRF.

In March 2022, Climate Justice Resilience Fund (CJRF) provided a small grants fund for Youth Climate Lab to attend the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival. The festival presented an ideal opportunity for Youth Climate Lab (YCL) to explore the concept of “Everyone VS Climate Change”. Learn more.

CJRF has had an eventful spring! We just returned from Kenya with our CJRF Phase 2 Design Team, solidifying options for governing and implementing a more participatory grantmaking structure for our second phase, starting in early 2023. Read more in our Spring Newsletter.

Many Indigenous communities around the world are relying on traditional knowledge of the land to recognize and adapt to a changing climate. To uplift and learn from their experiences, CJRF convened representatives of our partner organizations to reflect on how Indigenous Peoples are showing up as leaders in the climate justice movement.

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.