As we launch our Strategic Climate Fund campaign, we wanted to highlight our five Strategic Climate Fund Partner organisations and the urgent work they’re doing to take action on the climate crisis. Each of these organisations work on projects that will have a positive impact within the 2030 timeframe.

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) preserves forests, protects the climate and upholds human rights by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns.

For 37 years, RAN has undertaken bold campaigns to hold some of the world’s biggest corporations and banks accountable for forest destruction, loss of biodiversity, climate change and the exploitation of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and workers. RAN is working towards a world where the climate is protected, biodiversity is prioritised, and rights are secured and upheld.

RAN was an innovator and early proponent of a sectoral market campaign approach to international environmental activism, and the organisation has continued to evolve and employ this strategy. From campaigns targeting corporate giants such as Burger King, Bank of America, Disney, and Home Depot, to projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, RAN has succeeded in shifting the policies and practices of entire sectors.

Importantly, the corporate commitments that RAN negotiates include not only environmental protections but also recognition and respect for human and Indigenous rights. Core to this approach is building and maintaining authentic and effective partnerships with local, Indigenous, and frontline communities and their allies across the globe.

RAN has a distributed network of more than 4,000 activists across the nation, with action hubs in the key cities of New York, Minneapolis-St Paul, San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, and Chicago. The charity’s staff is composed of 60 climate leaders located in the US, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, and Europe. To date, RAN has provided funding to over 300 frontline communities in nearly 40 countries.