The Rockefeller Foundation

To further our mission to slow down climate change, we created a Climate Advisory Council to help advance people-centered solutions that both reduce emissions and enhance opportunities for communities most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Meet the Council members: 🌐 Sir Alok Sharma KCMG 🌐 Ani Dasgupta 🌐 Dr. Arunabha Ghosh 🌐 James Mwangi 🌐 Karen Fang 🌐 Dr. Naoko Ishii 🌐 Dr. Vera Songwe 🌐 Xiye Bastida 🌐 Dr. Archana Soreng Learn more about the Council here: https://lnkd.in/eiWRbecK

Introducing an innovation in climate finance: Energy transition credits. Transition credits are a financial incentive to make the switch from fossil fuels to clean energy. According to Dr Joseph Curtin, coal is the most pressing issue when it comes to climate change. This is why The Rockefeller Foundation, in collaboration with its partners, launched the Coal to Clean Credit Initiative (CCCI) in June last year. This first-of-its-kind project is setting a new comprehensive standard for the use of carbon finance to incentivize a just transition away from coal-fired power plants to renewable energy in emerging economies. The first CCCI pilot project, announced earlier this year, would shut down a coal plant 10 years early in the Philippines and avoid up to 19 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, while making sure workers and communities are financially supported. Learn more about this work in AsianInvestor: https://lnkd.in/eWYhqcdw

Last week marked a significant milestone as we celebrated our 111th anniversary. For over a century, we have made big bets to break down barriers to progress and improve billions of lives with advances in public health, food, energy, and finance. Our recent involvement at #WHA77 and #AfDB24 are a testament to our ongoing mission to promote the well-being of humanity around the world. On #WorldEnvironmentDay we are proud to reflect on our work as a Foundation across sectors and we are committed to taking the next steps and prioritizing sustainable investments. Together, we can drive sustainable economic growth and build climate resilience worldwide. 🌍

❌The bad news: Current active coal plants will release 190bn tons of CO2 over their remaining operational lifetimes.   ✅The good news: Replacing coal with clean power in emerging economies can help us limit catastrophic global warming.   If the world has any hope of limiting warming to 2°C, it must come together to accelerate the retirement of coal plants in emerging markets. This is why The Rockefeller Foundation launched the Coal to Clean Credit Initiative (CCCI), a consortium of global experts, developing a world-first carbon credit methodology.   Through CCCI, we are testing a new methodology that leverages carbon credit finance to accelerate a managed, equitable phaseout of coal plants in emerging economies and to incentivize their replacement with clean power, while supporting the lives and livelihoods of affected workers.   CCCI partners with local communities for each project to identify routes to new employment, entrepreneurship and reskilling to ensure that the needs of workers and communities are kept at the forefront.   Learn more about this initiative from Dr Joseph Curtin, our Managing Director for Power, on New Energy World: https://lnkd.in/e6JaXfUR

How can communication campaigns help shape a healthier future for all? Register now: Join Eileen O'Connor at a Vitaltalks event on June 5 in New York to explore the power of media in promoting public health. Featuring Sandra Mullin and Barbara Schillo, join an evening of discussion, networking and light refreshments. Sign up to attend: https://lnkd.in/eXQ4zsx8

How can communication campaigns help shape a healthier future for all? Register now: Join our next VitalTalks event on June 5 in New York as we explore the power of media in promoting public health. Featuring speakers from The Rockefeller Foundation, Truth Initiative and Vital Strategies, join us for a free evening of discussion and networking. Sign up to attend: https://lnkd.in/eXQ4zsx8

This week, as we celebrated our first 111 years, our President Rajiv J. Shah shared some thoughts on what the world and philanthropy need to do to make the large-scale change amid an accelerating climate crisis. Big bets have made progress possible over the last century.  Those seeking to change the world for the better today can have the same size impact, but it will require more of the philanthropic model that has evolved over the last century. Read more about risks that we must take, and how The Rockefeller Foundation is updating and applying its model for the climate era. https://lnkd.in/eVTJ7mKK

As #AANHPI Month comes to a close, it is with gratitude that we reflect on the visionaries who have made a lasting impact on our community. Leaders like Elizabeth Yee, Rajiv J. Shah, Ai-jen Poo, Maria Floro, and Saleem H. Ali have made their mark on us and the world. We aim to carry forward your legacy by re-committing to building a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable future for all, today and every day!

“We have to focus our eyes on the prize - school meals. There is a real opportunity for governments to expand school feeding programmes using carbon credits.” During #AfDBAM2024, our Vice President of Africa William Asiko highlighted how using carbon credits to finance school meal programs can increase access to these meals and can incentivize schools to switch from open fire stoves to clean cooking solutions. We're proud to support solutions that can advance opportunity for people and protect our planet. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/d4cr-hqD

☀️What makes climate storytelling powerful:   Interviewed by CNN's Bill Weir, our CNN Academy Storyteller, Ledama Masidza, shares lessons from his own experience and the RF-sponsored climate storytelling program.   🪸Climate storytelling is most powerful when you truly connect with a loss of an ecosystem or the joy of finding a solution. 🌍Everybody can be a journalist, even in their own neighborhood just by leaning across the fence, asking your neighbor "Hey, what's your story?" 💡The results of effective storytelling is that wherever they go, people who see a climate solution will be an ambassador of that solution. 🤝To bring people in, you need to move them, captivate them. ↔ The context of Ubuntu: "I am, because we are." If you isolate yourself from your neighbor, what kind of life will you live? What will you achieve by yourself? We have all got something to contribute to each other's success. 📖 Storytelling is a powerful way to break barriers between people who may think they're different.   Storytelling, according to Ledama Masidza, is a powerful way to keep in touch with where we've come from and where we want to go. #RFis111