Climate Change & Environment
We believe that pragmatic, actionable solutions are needed now to mitigate and build resilience to climate change and protect our natural environment. We support science-based, high-impact solutions aimed at reducing emissions within this decade while catalyzing broader systemic changes that can scale and sustain our progress. The initiatives we support advance climate goals while also delivering a range of benefits for people and planet.
Our strategies focus on areas where philanthropy has been limited but can play a leading role in accelerating the uptake of readily available, cost effective, and scalable solutions. In practice, this means supporting a diverse range of initiatives – from generating evidence and data to inform decision making, to applying information to the development of policies, regulations, and financing mechanisms, to supporting on-the-ground initiatives.
Our work focuses on advancing climate action globally, with particular attention to Canada and Europe.
Nature-Based Climate Solutions
Actions to protect, better manage, and restore nature can build resilience in our landscapes and communities and help reduce emissions. Focused primarily in Canada, we support Indigenous-led conservation initiatives, efforts to improve wildfire management and response, and efforts to enhance sustainability in the agriculture sector. Our partners work closely with stewards of the land, who are best positioned to lead these efforts.
Methane Emissions
Methane emissions are responsible for approximately 30% of current global warming and continue to rise rapidly. Reducing methane is the fastest way to lower temperatures in the short-term and can prevent 0.3 degrees Celsius of warming by 2040. We support initiatives that detect, quantify, and mitigate methane emissions globally and in Canada.
Decarbonizing Europe
Europe is one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases, but also has some of the most ambitious climate targets, with a current commitment to reduce emissions by at least 55% by 2030. For more than 15 years, we have supported efforts to demonstrate the technical feasibility of ambitious emission reductions in Europe, develop viable pathways to achieve those reductions, and build public support for them.
