Funder Commitment on Climate Change

Funder Commitment on Climate Change

UK charitable foundations provide more than £4bn of funding every year to good causes, ranging from medical research to the relief of poverty.

Signatories to the Funder Commitment on Climate Change recognise that the growing climate emergency is a serious risk to the pursuit of our charitable aims.

All foundations, whatever our charitable mission and field of expertise, can play a part in addressing the causes of climate change and supporting adaptation to its effects.

How can funders help?

 The necessary changes to sharply reduce emissions and to adapt to climate change bring opportunities for new industries, good jobs, a cleaner environment, and improved wellbeing, but also involve significant costs. Funders can help to bring about these changes, to ensure that everyone has access to opportunities arising from the transition to a low carbon economy, and to ensure that the costs are not disproportionately borne by those who are least able to pay.

The scale of the climate threat, and the scale of the solutions needed, means that this is an issue for all parts of civil society, and for all charitable foundations. Climate change is a health issue, an equality issue, an educational issue, an economic issue, a cultural issue, a scientific issue, a security issue and a local community issue, as well as an environmental issue. Children and young people are showing bold and effective leadership.

There is a special responsibility on foundations, whose assets are held for the public good, to use their resources and independence to rise to the challenge.

Read about how signing the Commitment helped The Grocers' Charity prioritise its environmental aims.

 

Find out more                Join our Commitment 

 

 

Funder Commitment on Climate Change (FCCC) year 2 report 

June 2022

 

Read here

 

Access raw data here

 

 

You can find out more about the Funder Commitment on Climate Change in this report on activity in the first year of the initiative.
 
We worked with the Environmental Funders Network (EFN) to create a resource pack for funders with a range of useful sources of information on climate change, how it impacts on other charitable causes, and how all funders can make a difference.

 

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