Grants database
We support climate leaders around the globe.
From grassroots action to global policy, our grants support organizations and initiatives that are working to end the climate crisis. Together with our grantee and implementing partners, we work to ensure that our planet is a thriving home for all living beings for generations to come.
Our partners advance a wide range of climate solutions.
Since 2008, ClimateWorks has granted over $1.8 billion to more than 850 grantees in over 50 countries.
See ClimateWorks’ commitments to grantees.
2023 grantmaking by program
TOTAL FUNDING 2023
$173.5M
TOTAL FUNDING 2023
$173.5M
Carbon Dioxide Removal
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) removes legacy emissions from the atmosphere and is increasingly seen as an essential tool to help meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. The ClimateWorks Carbon Dioxide Removal Program focuses on natural removal solutions, including soil sequestration, reforestation, and oceans, as well as technical solutions like direct air capture. Learn More
Total: $4.4 million
Cooling
The ClimateWorks Cooling Program leads the Clean Cooling Collaborative, an initiative advancing efficient, climate-friendly cooling for all. Clean Cooling Collaborative focuses on solutions that cool people and the planet, including super-efficient appliances, climate-friendly refrigerants, and passive cooling. Learn More
Total: $5.1 million
Finance
With a focus on capital markets and public finance, the ClimateWorks Finance Program aims to catalyze financial and market changes that accelerate climate action. Learn More
Total: $3.1 million
Food & Agriculture
The ClimateWorks Food & Agriculture Program empowers a diverse and growing set of changemakers demanding that food make good on its potential as a climate solution, while improving global health, environmental quality, and combating injustice. Learn More
Total: $3.5 million
Forests & Land Use
The ClimateWorks Forests and Land Use program is led by the Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA), which supports policies, practices, and partnerships that halt and reverse forest loss, advance sustainable land use and development, and secure the rights and livelihoods of indigenous and forest communities. Learn More
Total: $44.4 million
Governance & Diplomacy
Focused on advancing intergovernmental cooperation and just social and economic transitions, the ClimateWorks Governance & Diplomacy Program supports efforts to strengthen global climate governance at all levels, while ensuring an equitable zero-carbon transition. Learn More
Total: $1.4 million
Industry
To catalyze deep transformations in the industrial sector, the ClimateWorks Industry program focuses on demand-side strategies, such as the application of circular economy principles and using public procurement to create demand for clean materials, as well as supply-side approaches, to advance innovative industrial technologies and processes. Learn More
Total: $9.3 million
Power
The ClimateWorks Power Program focuses on key areas that, together, can accelerate the transformation of the global power sector. Through the Clean Energy, Clean Air initiative, ClimateWorks supports efforts to rapidly transform the power sector away from coal power toward clean energy in over 10 countries across Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Learn More
Total: $16.2 million
Transportation
The ClimateWorks Transportation Program advances sustainable, affordable, and low-carbon mobility systems for people and goods movement. The program includes aviation, road transportation, and maritime shipping initiatives. Learn More
Aviation: $4.1 million
Road Transportation: $48 million
Maritime Shipping: $6.4 million
Total: $58.5 million
Road Transportation: $48 million
Maritime Shipping: $6.4 million
Total: $58.5 million
Other
Total: $27.6 million
Committed grants
Recipient
Environmental Defense Fund, Incorporated
Program
Other
Award date
10/31/2017
Term
12 months
Amount
$38,000
Recipient
World Resources Institute
Program
Industry
Award date
10/31/2017
Term
19 months
Amount
$50,000
Recipient
Environmental Investigation Agency Trust Ltd
Program
Cooling
Award date
10/26/2017
Term
27 months
Amount
$400,000
Recipient
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
Program
Cooling
Award date
10/25/2017
Term
36 months
Amount
$250,000
Recipient
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
Program
Cooling
Award date
10/25/2017
Term
36 months
Amount
$250,000
Recipient
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
Program
Cooling
Award date
10/25/2017
Term
20 months
Amount
$300,000
Recipient
Instituto Clima e Sociedade
Program
Other
Award date
10/18/2017
Term
5 months
Amount
$20,000
Recipient
Stichting European Climate Foundation
Program
Other
Award date
10/17/2017
Term
17 months
Amount
$25,000
Recipient
Yale University
Program
Governance & Diplomacy
Award date
10/16/2017
Term
17 months
Amount
$360,349
Recipient
New Venture Fund
Program
Governance & Diplomacy
Award date
10/06/2017
Term
5 months
Amount
$100,000
Recipient
European Federation for Transport and Environment
Program
Transportation
Award date
09/29/2017
Term
6 months
Amount
$50,000
Recipient
Instituto Clima e Sociedade
Program
Cooling
Award date
09/29/2017
Term
38 months
Amount
$1,295,000
Recipient
Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, Inc.
Program
Super Pollutants
Award date
09/29/2017
Term
12 months
Amount
$100,000
Recipient
Aviation Environment Federation
Program
Transportation
Award date
09/29/2017
Term
12 months
Amount
$145,000
Recipient
Environmental Defense Fund, Incorporated
Program
Transportation
Award date
09/28/2017
Term
12 months
Amount
$200,000
Recipient
World Wildlife Fund, Inc.
Program
Transportation
Award date
09/28/2017
Term
12 months
Amount
$135,000
Recipient
United Nations Development Programme
Program
Cooling
Award date
09/26/2017
Term
18 months
Amount
$400,000
Recipient
University College London
Program
Super Pollutants
Award date
09/26/2017
Term
6 months
Amount
$70,000
Recipient
Instituto Clima e Sociedade
Program
Other
Award date
09/22/2017
Term
12 months
Amount
$200,000
Recipient
Climate and Health Research Network
Program
Super Pollutants
Award date
09/22/2017
Term
12 months
Amount