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LGBTQI Climate Fund

GiveOut’s world-first Climate Fund supports LGBTQI activists working around the world to help tackle the climate crisis.

Climate Change and Exclusion

In recent years, the urgency of the climate crisis has become increasingly obvious, with successive natural disasters pushing individuals, civil society, businesses, and governments to make tackling climate change a priority.

Research by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that people who are marginalised – including those facing discrimination – are especially vulnerable to climate change.

While there has been important research demonstrating how women and girls are disproportionately affected by natural disasters, this work has rarely differentiated gender identity and sexual orientation within that. This means that LGBTQI people have been, overall, largely forgotten in climate policy and planning, representing a significant oversight that puts our communities at further risk.

GiveOut projects – and we have already seen – that LGBTQI communities will be among the most vulnerable to the direct impacts of climate change related natural disasters, and to longer-term consequences including service disruption, forced displacement and even conflict.

This will be the case especially for LGBTQI people in frontline countries that are most threatened by climate change and where LGBTQI identities are also illegal or repressed. Furthermore, although LGBTQI activists and organisations are already working in the climate justice space, philanthropic knowledge and funding at this intersection remains scarce.

Resourcing LGBTQI Climate Activism

In March 2021, GiveOut launched the world-first LGBTQI Climate Fund to support activist organisations working at the intersection of climate change and LGBTQI human rights. Its purpose is to provide LGBTQI organisations with more of the resources they need to respond to the climate crisis, building knowledge, educating their communities, advocating for the inclusion of LGBTQI voices and advancing justice and equity within responses to climate change, and contributing to the wider movement for climate justice.

This Fund is Supporting

Donate to the Fund

To make a donation to the Fund, please click the button below. We are building a community of supporters who are passionate about the impact of climate change on LGBTQI communities and the response of our movement, enabling you to connect with others engaged in this pioneering work.

For any questions, to discuss how you, your business or foundation can get involved, or to donate via bank transfer, please contact GiveOut’s philanthropy team at give@giveout.org.

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