Unicef
Multilateral climate funds have a key role to play in agenda-setting and in catalysing and coordinating investments which are necessary to respond to the climate crisis.
Falling short: addressing the climate finance gap for children is a study analysing how ‘child responsive’ projects funded by key multilateral climate funds are – over a 17-year period. ‘Child responsiveness’ is defined as addressing the distinct and heightened risks children experience from the climate crisis, strengthening the resilience of child-critical social services and empowering children as agents of change.
Water for People Canada provides people in developing countries in Central and South America, Africa and Asia with an opportunity to help themselves gain access to water and sanitation. By collaborating with the local community, we empower community members to take ownership of their projects. We fund sustainable water projects and sanitation systems that are built by local community members, with locally available resources, and support health and hygiene education. This model allows community members to be fully involved in the process and empowers them with the knowledge and skills they need to maintain the projects or systems in the future.
Today more than 55 million people around the world can turn on a tap and safely use a toilet because small, affordable loans empowered them to get access to safe water and sanitation at home.
We celebrate the lives transformed and realize there is more to be done as we continue our work in 11 countries around the world. In pursuit of our vision of safe water and sanitation for all, we are scaling impact – exploring new markets and financial solutions to help end the global water crisis.
We invite you to see how your support changes lives by learning more about the people we help empower, where we work, the magnitude of the global water crisis, and the solutions driving our impact.
This is a global crisis that affects all of us.
In fact, “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all” is the Sustainable Development Goal 6 established by the United Nations. It’s a matter of having the resources to access it and responsibly manage it. There are sustainable, cost-effective solutions to the water crisis and we have the expertise, 15+ year history and vision to bring it to millions more people, but we can’t do it without your help.
WFP is prioritizing emergency action to prevent millions dying of hunger and help build and stabilize national food systems and related supply chains. We aim to support a record 171.5 million people in 2023, a significant increase on 128 million in 2021. We are diversifying our supplier base, promoting local food procurement and negotiating for humanitarian access and export waivers.
Our operational needs are now at an all-time high of US$25.1 billion, with confirmed contributions of US$10 billion (or 40 percent).
WFP has a plan for 2023 – the most ambitious in its history – but needs renewed and larger commitments to help deliver millions of people from disaster. We face a triple jeopardy: operational costs increase, the number of acutely hungry people rises to unprecedented levels and donors are squeezed by multiple demands. Without additional resources, WFP will be forced to continue drastic prioritization in many of the countries where we operate, including among humanitarian crises.
Since 2011, Feeding America has produced estimates of local food insecurity and food costs to improve our understanding of people and places facing hunger and inform decisions that will help ensure equitable access to nutritious food for all. Our interactive map, now updated with data as of 2021, features annual food insecurity estimates from our Map the Meal Gap study for the overall population and children in every county, congressional district, and state, as well as for every service area within our nationwide network of food banks. The map also features food insecurity estimates for the older adult and senior populations at the national and state level from Feeding America’s The State of Senior Hunger in America report series.
To achieve our vision of an America where no one is hungry, we believe it is imperative to address disparities in food insecurity by race as well as place. To that end, we have updated our food insecurity estimates by race and ethnicity for available populations and geographies. Recognizing that sample sizes are smaller, and uncertainty is greater the more we disaggregate data, we believe that understanding even broad historical variations within and across populations and places is critical. Only then can we develop effective strategies to address the root causes of food insecurity and change the systems, policies and practices that put people at risk of hunger.
For nearly half of the 5.3 million children who don’t live to see their fifth birthday, hunger is the reason why. The good news is, we know how to help. Hunger is a predictable, preventable, and treatable illness. For more than 40 years, Action Against Hunger has been leading a movement to save lives and improve the health of the world’s most vulnerable children. Our research teams helped to invent lifesaving nutrition treatments and to set the global standard for how malnutrition is addressed in hospitals, health centers, and communities. For 40 years, we have been on the front lines, treating and preventing hunger in some of the world’s most remote and difficult places.
Right now, 41 million people are on the brink of famine. At least 1 million children in Afghanistan will suffer from severe acute malnutrition. In Yemen, 360,000 malnourished children could die without food aid. Here’s how your gift today can help:
ExxonMobil’s projects around the world involve work in remote and sensitive environments, such as deep water and areas of high biodiversity.We aim to develop, maintain and operate projects responsibly, using appropriate standards that enable us to Protect Tomorrow. Today. We strive to be a leader in environmental management, and work to understand and mitigate potential environmental and socioeconomic impacts.
When you make a tax-deductible donation to The Nature Conservancy, you're supporting the most effective solutions to the biggest threats facing our lands, waters and wildlife. As a leading global environmental nonprofit, The Nature Conservancy is working to advance conservation in all 50 states and U.S. territories and in 70 countries around the world. That's why your contribution is so much more than charity; it's an investment in the future of our planet.
One in 10 people lack access to clean water. Water is essential for drinking, sanitation and hygiene, and food production. Some areas in the world rely entirely on water for their livelihoods.
Women and young girls are disproportionately affected by the water crisis as they often carry the burden of collecting water for their families. This leaves little time for them to prioritize work and education, further forcing them into the cycle of poverty. To add, nearly 1 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene related diseases. Children are the most susceptible, which in turn affects their ability to go to school.
Oceana is the largest international advocacy organization focused solely on ocean conservation. Oceana’s mission is to protect and restore our oceans. We lead strategic, directed campaigns that achieve measurable outcomes for the oceans. Oceana leverages law, science, grassroots activism, advocacy, and strategic communications to win policy change around the world. We have won more than 275 victories and protected nearly 4 million square miles of ocean.
PADI AWARE Foundation is a publicly funded non-profit with three registered charities across the globe. Our mission is to drive local action for global ocean conservation. We advance our mission through citizen science, public policy and community grants. With PADI - the world's leading scuba diver training organization - we drive towards our collective vision to achieve balance between humanity and the ocean.
Blue Marine Foundation is a charity dedicated to restoring the ocean to health by addressing overfishing, one of the world’s biggest environmental problems.
The ocean is the world’s largest carbon sink: by combatting overfishing, we can help life in the ocean perform its vital function of stabilising the Earth’s climate.
The Marine Conservation Instuite
We collaborate with community leaders, policy-makers and technical experts to identify important ocean areas to establish and strengthen protection for vital ocean ecosystems. The Marine Protection Atlas tracks and evaluates strong global protection, helping nations and the world reach international conservation commitments The Blue Parks initiative provides the blueprints for protected area effectiveness, incentivizes conservation excellence, and unites the ocean’s best protected places in a strategic network to save life in the sea.
Plastics are all around us and a part of our everyday lives. Some plastic is beneficial and serves a specialized purpose including its use in vehicles, computers, and many medical applications. However, single-use plastics which are used for a few minutes and then discarded, have created a major pollution problem. Our ocean is filling up with plastic trash - choking fish, birds, turtles, and whales. It is even entering the human food chain in the form of microplastics. Plastic isn’t made to pollute the ocean, but up to 11 million tons of plastic still enter marine waters each year. Much of it starts out on land from overflowing landfills or as litter on our beaches, streets, and sidewalks that are swept into storm drains, creeks, streams, and rivers — all leading to the ocean.
We must change the current flow of plastic pollution by stopping plastic at the source - advocating for better product alternatives and switching to reusables for our everyday needs. We encourage individuals, industry, and governments to protect our ocean, waves, and beaches by moving away from unnecessary single-use plastics.
The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to regulate hazardous air pollutants (HAP) from large industrial facilities known as major sources in two phases.
The first phase is “technology-based,” where the EPA develops standards for controlling the emissions of air toxics from sources in an industry group (or “source category”). These maximum achievable control technology (MACT) standards are based on emissions levels that are already being achieved by the controlled and low-emitting sources in an industry.
Within 8 years of setting the MACT standards, the Clean Air Act directs the EPA to assess the remaining health risks from each source category to determine whether the MACT standards protect public health with an ample margin of safety, and protect against adverse environmental effects. This second phase is a “risk-based” approach called residual risk. Here, the EPA must determine whether more health-protective standards are necessary.
Of course, pollution isn’t a new phenomenon - nor is action to counter it. A number of international conventions and national laws are already tackling the problem, and some of them - including efforts to repair the ozone layer and the phasing out of a number of toxic chemicals and pesticides - have been very successful. The Convention on Biological Diversity’s Aichi Biodiversity Targets call for a decrease in pollution and demand specific actions on excess nutrients. The Paris Climate Agreement is a major step forward in tackling both climate change and air pollution. We need to adapt these models, and scale up what works. We also need to dramatically step up our ambitions. Although no international agreement explicitly recognizes the right to a healthy environment, many countries around the world have chosen to do so
Cars impact on the environment
The transport sector is one of the largest sources of CO2 emissions and a major source of air pollution.
Two new vehicles enter the roads every single second. By 2030 it will be more than four.
By 2030, an estimated 127 million vehicles will be produced globally. By 2035, the total number of vehicles could be 2 billion.
The environmental impact of cars will depend on how effectively we move towards electrified cars (and more fuel efficient cars but that’s not a long term solution)
UCSUSA
Global warming endangers our health, jeopardizes our national security, and threatens other basic human needs. Some impacts—such as record high temperatures, rising seas, and severe flooding and droughts—are already increasingly common.Our personal vehicles are a major cause of global warming. Collectively, cars and trucks account for nearly one-fifth of all US emissions, emitting around 24 pounds of carbon dioxide and other global-warming gases for every gallon of gas. About five pounds comes from the extraction, production, and delivery of the fuel, while the great bulk of heat-trapping emissions—more than 19 pounds per gallon—comes right out of a car’s tailpipe.In total, the US transportation sector—which includes cars, trucks, planes, trains, ships, and freight—produces nearly thirty percent of all US global warming emissions, more than almost any other sector.Unfortunately, oil-related emissions may rise in the coming years as the oil industry extracts and refines “unconventional” oils, such as tar sands and tight oil. Using less oil—and avoiding unnecessary emission from the oil we do use—is the real solution.
Solutions are here
Fuel-efficient vehicles use less gas to travel the same distance as their less efficient counterparts. When we burn less fuel, we generate fewer emissions. When emissions go down, the pace of global warming slows.
Cleaner fuels produce fewer emissions when they’re burned. Some fuels—such as those made from cellulosic biofuels—can reduce emissions by 80 percent compared to gasoline. And better regulations would help prevent the gasoline we do use from getting any dirtier.
Electric cars and trucks use electricity as fuel, producing fewer emissions than their conventional counterparts. When the electricity comes from renewable sources, all-electric vehicles produce zero emissions to drive.
These and other solutions are here today—but more can be done. Learn more about our plan to Transform Transportation.
Cars affect the environment in various ways, both directly and indirectly. Cars emit greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, which contribute to global warming and climate change. Cars also produce air pollutants and particulate matter, which harm the environment and human health, causing acid rain, smog, and respiratory problems.
To address these issues, there are several initiatives being taken such as promoting public transportation systems like buses and trains that run on electricity or other clean fuels. Governments are also encouraging people to use bicycles or walk for short distances instead of using cars.
Long Term Goal For Cars And The Environment
For the world to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 — when carbon emissions added to the atmosphere are balanced by carbon removal — EVs would need to climb from the current 5 percent of global car sales to 60 percent by 2030, the agency found.
The Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050 (Challenge 2050) is a set of six visionary, global challenges that seek to go beyond eliminating negative environmental impacts to creating positive value for the planet and society. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC, TMNA’s parent company headquartered in Japan) announced these six challenges in 2015 after extensive research and internal and external consultation. The challenges, which apply to all Toyota subsidiaries around the world, are the most demanding and most inspiring environmental commitments this company has ever made.
The six challenges are:
New Vehicle CO₂ Emissions Challenge – Reduce CO₂ emissions from new vehicles by 90% (2010 baseline)
Operations CO₂ Emissions Challenge – Eliminate CO₂ emissions from operations
Life Cycle CO₂ Emissions Challenge – Eliminate CO₂ emissions from suppliers and dealers
Water Conservation Challenge – Conserve water and protect water resources
Recycling-Based Society Challenge – Support a circular economy
Harmony with Nature Challenge – Conserve biodiversity, protect species and restore habitats
Through Challenge 2050, team members across the company, in every region of the world, are working to put Toyota’s global vision of Respect for the Planet into action. Challenge 2050 unites us all with a common purpose – to be more than just good stewards of the environment and to create positive changes beyond our facility boundaries.
Within TMNA, we continue to refine a regional environmental sustainability strategy to align Toyota’s global values and Challenge 2050 with our regional focus areas – Carbon, Water, Materials and Biodiversity. In each focus area, we are working towards minimizing environmental impacts and, through outreach activities, towards a net positive impact on society and the planet.
Today’s version of large-scale agriculture is the biggest source of land conversion, drives deforestation that worsens climate change, uses 70% of the world’s freshwater supply and relies on fertilizer practices that pollute our waters. As the need to feed a billion more people increases, agricultural expansion could devastate habitats, release even more carbon into the atmosphere, and dry up rivers. We’re analyzing satellite images and local yield potential to pinpoint where soy farming and cattle ranching can expand without destroying nature. This approach is especially vital in Brazil’s Cerrado region, where half of all natural habitat has already been converted to cropland and pasture. Cooperating with farmers on sustainable practices can help save what’s left of the Cerrado’s rich savanna.
Yes! We can all take notice of our environment. We can learn how our planet works. We can learn how to live on it without making a mess of it. We can help to keep it magnificent for ourselves, our children and grandchildren, and other living things besides us. You can help by growing your own vegetables and fruits. You can help by planting a tree. Your new plants and trees will help to remove the greenhouse gas CO2 from the air. If you grow some of your own food, you will also help to prevent more CO2 from entering the air from the fossil-fuel-burning trucks, planes, and ships that transport your food to you from far away.
We collaborate with local communities to conserve the natural resources we all depend on and build a future in which people and nature thrive. Together with partners at all levels, we transform markets and policies toward sustainability, tackle the threats driving the climate crisis, and protect and restore wildlife and their habitats.
NRDC’s team of lawyers, scientists, and campaigners are on the frontlines every day waging fierce courtroom battles and hard-hitting campaigns to:
We are working around the clock to get stronger environmental and energy laws that will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, protect our oceans and fragile coastal environments, and help protect millions of jobs.
Greenpeace USA is funded entirely by our supporters, never by governments, corporations, or special interests. But we're fighting against the most well-funded opponents imaginable — massive fossil fuel companies, plastic polluters, and multinational corporations destroying our environment.
Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change.
Friends of the Earth (FOE) is a radical environmental group that campaigns against perfectly safe foods through scare campaigns. FOE has received $43 million from foundations, most of which appear to regular support extremist environmental groups including the Foundation for the Carolinas, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Packard Foundation, and the Tides Foundation.
Ocean Rescue Alliance International
Ocean Rescue Alliance International (ORAI) is a 501(c)(3) marine conservation and restoration nonprofit organization that implements innovative technologies to restore our marine environments.
Through the creation of artificial reefs designed to incorporate art, innovative designs, and safe materials, ORAI enhances marine habitats and provides unique diving locations worldwide. However, we also strongly advocate that the main causes of habitat loss (local stressors and climate change) must be corrected to maximize restoration effectiveness. Our artificial reefs serve as a targeted solution in the face of pressing marine habitat challenges, to increase coastal resiliency, expand ecosystem services and create lasting habitat for biodiverse marine organisms.
The Fish & Wildlife Foundation
The Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida is a nonprofit organization that seeks to protect our outstanding animals and plants and the lands and waters they need to survive. We work closely with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and many other public and private partners. Since our founding in 1994, we have raised and donated more than $49 million for conservation and outdoor recreation, including youth outdoor education.
Climate impact research over the last decade shows that people who live in the rainforest have historically been the best at shaping and stewarding these ecosystems. As part of our work, we give cash to communities directly. This is essential in the fight against deforestation in a time where indigenous peoples are excluded from climate and conservation funding altogether. The positive impact on rainforest health when people live there is clear to see in indigenous territories. By working with indigenous peoples and local communities living in rainforest and with your support, we help to keep rainforest standing. We measure our impact on rainforest and climate by learning from our outcomes, the small wins, and the challenges. By doing this, we become a better organisation. Monitoring activities and evaluating our programmes helps us to understand where we are right now. How close we are to where we want to be, and how best to get there.
World Land Trust (WLT) pioneered the Buy an Acre concept of buying land for conservation, starting in 1989, and has, since then, funded ground-breaking habitat protection for more than 30 years, with an impressive track record of achievements. World Land Trust and its overseas project partners have been instrumental in the purchase and protection of more than 2,222,247 acres of tropical forest and other threatened habitats, and together ensure that more than four million acres of land is managed under active protection worldwide. Here is a summary of just a few of the Trust’s major activities and achievements.
Today, we continue to apply our technical and policy know-how to aspects of the climate challenge in cutting-edge ways. Fueled by facts rather than ideology, CATF combines technology innovation, policy advocacy, and thought leadership expertise to leverage workable solutions to this global crisis.
We are taking a fundamental, serious look at what will be required of our society and institutions to reach the necessary intensity and funding levels for energy innovation, allowing us to attain the daunting, but necessary goal of a zero-carbon global energy system by midcentury. Despite our growing stature as a research and advocacy leader in the global climate debate, we remain true to our beginnings as a science-based organization.
The Union of Concerned Scientists
We don’t just use science to envision a better world—we work to achieve it.
We work with policymakers, entrepreneurs, and peer organizations across the US to design policies that will bring necessary carbon removal solutions to gigaton scale.
A world where smallholder farmers can earn a decent living while working in harmony with the environment. Where parents can cook nutritious family meals without risking their health. And where businesses, schools and clinics have the electricity they need to help their communities succeed.
We’re working towards a world where people in slum communities and refugee camps live in safety and dignity. Women entrepreneurs have the confidence and the skills to build profitable businesses. And people on the front line of climate change can adapt to the challenges of extreme weather and thrive.
The communities we work with face significant challenges. The effects of climate change, environmental degradation, and the ongoing pandemic make this a critical time. But we see the opportunities for positive change and we know that our goals are not only achievable, but have never been more relevant.
Earth Island is a fiscal sponsor to a vibrant network of more than 75 groundbreaking activist projects working to protect the planet and all species that live on it. The organization also includes a legal division, Earth Island Advocates, a youth leadership program, New Leaders Initiative, and an award-winning magazine, Earth Island Journal.
Scenic Conservation in the Classroom and Beyond
Primitive Instincts Youth Nature Program
CG Environmental Cleaning Guys
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