Youth-Driven Climate Solutions
Youth-Driven
Climate Solutions
Action for the Climate
Emergency (ACE)
ACE educates, inspires and supports young people to lead the fight for their future. They ensure young people have everything they need to understand the science and advocate for solutions to the climate emergency. ACE envisions a world in which a global movement, rich in youth leadership, has turned the tide on climate change. They believe an equitable, biodiverse, carbon neutral future is still within reach if we, the people, compel our leaders to act.
Draper Richards Kaplan
Foundation (DRK)
DRK finds, funds and supports exceptional leaders with innovative and highly impactful ideas that have the potential to scale. DRK provides unrestricted capital, and, most importantly, provides rigorous, ongoing support by joining the board of directors and partnering with the leader to help build capacity in the organization and scale their impact. In particular, Enlight Foundation supports DRK’s selection of climate change-focused organizations.
ICONIQ Impact Ocean Co-Lab
This is a $57 million collaborative philanthropy fund supporting 20 ocean-based projects that are addressing the root causes of climate change, helping protect coastal ecosystems, and empowering local communities to protect their ancestral coasts.
Solutions Journalism Network
Solutions journalism investigates and explains, in a critical and clear-eyed way, how people try to solve widely shared problems. While journalists usually define news as “what’s gone wrong,” solutions journalism tries to expand that definition: Responses to problems are also newsworthy. By adding rigorous coverage of solutions, journalists can tell the whole story. In particular, Enlight Foundation’s support enables special focus on solutions journalism related to climate change.
The Natural Capital Project
(NatCap) at Stanford
The Natural Capital Project aims to improve the well-being of all by motivating greater investment in natural capital. With its global hub at Stanford University, NatCap is a partnership between interdisciplinary researchers, professionals, and leaders around the world. Together, NatCap helps people, governments, and corporations incorporate the value of nature into decision-making. Their software is downloaded in 180 countries, helping decision-makers to develop solutions.
Teach For All
Around the world, Teach For All network partners are developing collective leadership to ensure all children can fulfill their potential. Teach For All network partners build deep relationships with communities committed to making long-term progress for children. They recruit their nations’ diverse, promising leaders to commit at least two years to teach in marginalized communities, and support and develop them to work together with families and community members towards a shared vision for student success. Teach for All operates a Climate Education and Leadership program that includes a free, publicly available resource hub for teachers worldwide.
Yale University Emerging
Climate Fellows Program
The mission of the Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship is to create a community of committed clean energy and climate change leaders from emerging and developing countries, enriched by engagement with top Yale faculty and researchers, and leading global authorities in the clean energy transition from the International Energy Agency and beyond. They are drawn from a wide variety of professions, ranging from public servants to entrepreneurs, energy company professionals, financiers, journalists, educators, researchers, civil society representatives, legal advisers, and legislators.
Youth Climate Justice Fund
The Youth Climate Justice Fund aims to support climate justice young leaders with trust-based funding, resources, and youth-to-youth capacity development, enabling them to amplify their voices and to keep their vision and influence alive.