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11th Hour Project
Works at the nexus of energy, food & agriculture, and human rights. Programs: Energy: The Project invests in organizations pursuing restrictions on fossil fuels and advancement of cleaner alternatives concurrently,...
Accounting for Sustainability
Accounting for Sustainability (2004; London; 16 staff; accountingforsustainability.org) A project established by Charles, Prince of Wales, and his Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation, “to help ensure that we are not...
Accounting, Natural Capital, Natural Capital Accounting, Sustainable Accounting, Sustainable Accounting Standards, Sustainable Capitalism
African Water Facility
Provides grants and expert technical assistance to implement innovative water projects and raise investment for water projects throughout Africa. Managed by the African Development Bank and has incepted 104 projects...
All We Can Save Project
A project that through the bestselling anthology All We Can Save, brings "head-heart integration, a focus on just solutions, and a “big tent” to mainstream climate communication, thereby advancing a narrative...
Back to Blue Initiative
A multi-year joint initiative of the Economist Impact and The Nippon Foundation working to tackle "visible and invisible ocean pollution to shape, inspire and catalyse progress." In this sense, the...
Billion Dollar Green Challenge
Mission: “Encourages colleges, universities, and other nonprofit institutions to invest a combined total of one billion dollars in self-managed revolving funds that finance energy efficiency improvements.” The Sustainable Endowments Institute, ...
Green Schools, Investment, Sustainable Universities, Universities, University Sustainability Programs
Biodiversity Finance Program
BIOFIN was established in response to the urgent global need to divert more finance from all possible sources toward international and national biodiversity goals. Works to create an action plan,...
Biophilic Cities
Biophilic Cities (2013; Univ. of Virginia; 9 staff; biophiliccities.org) A program with the vision to connect "Cities and Nature." They "partner with cities, scholars and advocates from across the globe...
Biophilic Cities, Cities, Cities for Sustainability, Future Cities, Green Cities, Sustainable Cities
Centre for Energy Environment Resources Development
It was created under a Thai Foundation with an international orientation aiming to develop, promote and disseminate sustainable energy-environment concepts, international experiences and recommended practices. It aims to be a...
Clean Cooling Collaborative
A joint program dedicated to supporting energy-efficient, cooling solutions with a low global warming potential in developing countries. CCC was formerly known as Kigali Cooling-Efficiency Program. It focuses "not only...
Clean Energy Solutions Center
It helps governments to design and adopt policies and programs that support the deployment of clean energy technologies. Moreover, it "offers no-cost expert policy assistance, training webinars, policy briefs and published reports, data, and...
Climate Action Business Association
Climate Action Business Association is a “nonprofit organization that helps businesses take targeted action on climate change.” It merged with the nonprofit ClimateXChange in 2016 in order to “increase its...
Climate Depot
Is a news center that aims to be a one-stop shopping for reporters, policymakers, students, scientists and concerned citizens about climate-related issues. It was conceived as a Special Project of...
Climate for Health
Founded by EcoAmerica, it is a national network of 44 health leaders across America. It aims to create climate solutions by addressing a clean energy future, an improvement in people’s...
Climate One
Climate One is a “project from The Commonwealth Club built as a leadership dialogue on energy, the economy and the environment.” It brings together “top thinkers and doers from business,...
Climate Wise Women
Climate Wise Women is a project of the Earth Island Institute promoting women’s leadership on climate change through powerful personal narratives. It allows “grassroots women to tell their own stories...
Climate-Smart Planning Platform
A program affiliated with the Green Growth Knowledge Platform, comprised of a partnership between 60 leading organizations. It aims to support developing countries as well as to “strengthen their climate-smart...
Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna
CAFF is the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council. It serves as a vehicle to cooperate on species and habitat management and utilization, to share information on management techniques...
Corporate Leaders Group
The group brings together business leaders who are "committed to supporting the transformation to competitive, sustainable, inclusive economies that will deliver net-zero carbon emissions by 2050." They advocate for "robust...
Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate
Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate ([ND], Washington; no dedicated staff, 20 experts; brookings.edu/project/cross-brookings-initiative-on-energy-and-climate) Brookings Institution scholars doing research in the energy and climate space designed to catalyze a focused...