Grantee Impact Stories
Insights into how our grantees are revolutionizing the world
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Affordable Green Energy Lights Up Underserved Haiti Homes
Oct 11 2024Mesh grids are helping bring solar energy access to underserved communities in a troubled country where many survive on two dollars a day.
- Oct 21 2024Grantee Impact StoryNurturing Climate Finance Leaders in Vulnerable Nations
V20 Finance Fellows are being equipped with the tools and skills to help their countries prepare for the financial impacts of climate change. - Oct 29 2024PerspectiveMobilizing Finance, Empowering Communities, and Scaling Nature’s Solutions Reducing carbon emissions is essential but not enough. To sequester carbon — and finance a resilient future — we must invest in nature-based solutions.
- Oct 21 2024Grantee Impact StoryA Model for a Green Transformation and Inclusive Economic Growth A Community Benefits Agreement paves the way for equitable job creation at an electric bus manufacturer, ensuring a just energy transition.
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Pioneering Pathways in Climate Finance
This edition of Matter of Impact spotlights innovative financial strategies driving a resilient, equitable shift toward sustainable energy worldwide.
- Grantee Impact StoryA New Generation Cultivates Tomorrow with Sustainable Farming The food system today contributes 25 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions. Mad Capital brings individually tailored financing to help farmers make the transition to regenerative practices.
- Grantee Impact StoryThe Race to Replace Coal An innovative financing tool is being used to try to retire a coal plant in the Philippines a decade earlier than currently scheduled.
- Grantee Impact StoryTransformative Initiatives To Add Nature to the Balance Sheet A look at what it means to add nature to a corporate ledger, and how The Rockefeller Foundation fellows are helping create this systems change.
Perspectives Blog
- PerspectiveCOP-29 Wrapped: A Turning Point for Climate Finance and Food Systems This year’s COP highlighted the need to invest in food systems, key to cutting emissions. The Rockefeller Foundation is driving innovation and collaboration to scale regenerative agriculture for a sustainable future.
- PerspectiveFollowing Indigenous and Frontline Leadership to a Regenerative Future COP16 aims to place Indigenous wisdom and leadership at the core of global efforts to fight climate change and biodiversity loss.
- PerspectiveHow Everyone Can Get on Board With Mission 300 Mission 300, a bold initiative led by the World Bank Group and African Development Bank, aims to bring sustainable electricity access to 300 million Africans by 2030 through African leadership, low-cost financing, and an unprecedented level of global collaboration.