Climate philanthropy and funding transformative change. How can we ensure capital flows into the right solution spaces?

Just 2% of philanthropic giving goes to climate action globally and only 3% of this 2% goes to Africa. How can we create system change strategies as funders and investors to support the change we need to see over the coming decade?

In the first episode of the Futuring Podcast, Ivana Gazibara, Director of the Futures Centre powered by Forum for the Future, talks to Will Dawson, Director of Climate Philanthropy at Impatience Earth. 

Tune in to hear why it's important to sometimes let go of carbon savings and tune into your passions as a funder, why the next generation of philanthropists is a key leverage point, and why we need to fund more protest movements and whistleblowers. 

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This audio features the song "Boulevard" by Yung Kartz available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.

Chapters

• 3:50 What does it mean in practice to be matching donors?
• 6:20 What are the key trends that are driving the climate philanthropy space?
• 9:32 Where should we be putting money for greatest impact?
• 14:00 Why it's important to bring more diverse perspectives into defining transformative action?
• 15:15 What are our blind spots in climate philanthropy?
• 22:49 If funders were thinking of developing a system change strategy for their portolio, what are the things you would flag to them?