Our mission is to inspire greater ambition and collaboration in the philanthropic sector, and to drive urgently needed resources where they’re needed most – to frontline leaders and organizations directly implementing climate change solutions. Our organization has three corresponding programs - Science, Philanthropy, Communications - which work in unison to help scale effective climate philanthrop
y. The Science program lays the foundation for a vision of the future that’s possible. The Philanthropy program works to direct resources to priority regions and projects. The Communications program builds a new narrative focusing on climate solutions, marketing high-priority projects to a broader audience. Science: Proving What’s Possible
The solutions for the climate crisis already exist. One Earth funded a groundbreaking research effort entitled Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals (Teske et al. 2019), which gives us a roadmap for limiting global average temperature rise to 1.5°C. The culmination of a two-year collaboration with 17 leading scientists at the University of Technology Sydney, two institutes at the German Aerospace Center, and the University of Melbourne’s Climate & Energy College, the 500-page book was released by the prestigious scientific publisher Springer Nature and has quickly become the most downloaded climate text in the publisher’s history, cited in dozens of scientific papers. It provides least-cost pathways for decarbonizing our energy system and shows the powerful role of nature-based solutions, including shifts required in our agricultural system. One Earth is taking this work forward by supporting science & technology efforts focused on solving three complex, interconnected challenges – climate change, biodiversity loss, and food security. These include:
• Energy Transitions: regional decarbonization pathways for energy sectors, housed at University of Technology Sydney https://www.oneearth.org/apcag-executive-briefing)
• Global Safety Net: regional and global data products for protecting and restoring natural lands, housed at Resolve https://www.oneearth.org/the-global-safety-net-a-blueprint-to-save-critical-ecosystems-and-stabilize-the-earths-climate
• Feeding 10 Billion: advanced simulation of global food systems under 1.5°C of warming to provide sustainable nutrition, housed at University of Minnesota https://www.oneearth.org/high-resolution-and-current-data-are-needed-to-create-a-sustainable-food-system
Philanthropy: Scaling Solutions from the Ground Up
To solve the climate crisis and build the future we want, we must radically scale climate philanthropy to target these on-the-ground efforts. One Earth’s mission is to mobilize significant philanthropic capital-from high-net-worth families, companies, and everyday citizens-to provide urgently needed resources to leaders, organizations, and communities who are implementing climate solutions today. This is a reason why Earth’s Call Fund (https://www.earthscall.org/) recently joined forces with One Earth. The shared mission and values resulted in a seamless collaboration in order to rapidly address the climate crisis. In 2020, we launched a first-of-its-kind online global marketplace (https://www.oneearth.org/projects) featuring a growing curation of impactful projects around the world that are directly working to solve the climate crisis and are in need of additional funding. The projects are organized through a biogeographical framework organized by three main solutions pathways of One Earth -- Energy Transition, Nature Conservation, Regenerative Agriculture -- connecting capital with changemakers on the ground. The One Earth Action Fund is a vehicle to deliver funding to these projects and to galvanize additional resources from funders at all levels. Communications: Taking Back the Climate Narrative
One Earth works to raise awareness about the urgency of limiting global average temperature rise to 1.5°C and what needs to be done to achieve this goal, focusing on three key audiences. We showcase inspiring projects of community-led action to attract investment in frontline solutions around the world. We produce executive briefings to inform stakeholders and decision makers advocating for key policy shifts. And we use social media to build a broad public movement of engaged and optimistic changemakers, telling the story of the transformation that is already underway and the just and vibrant future that is possible. Learn more
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