About Us - Climate and Land Use Alliance

Our Mission

The Climate and Land Use Alliance seeks to realize the potential of forests and land use to mitigate climate change, benefit people, and protect the environment.

Priorities & Focus

By bringing together our resources and diverse expertise, the Alliance seeks to support viable solutions and mobilize greater funding to conserve and restore forests and more sustainably use land—for the benefit of people and the planet. Learn more about how we work, where we focus, and what we support.

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Our Alliance

The Climate and Land Use Alliance is a collaborative of foundations that believe forests and sustainable land use are an essential part of the global response to climate change.

Member Foundations

Aligned Foundations

Where We Focus

The Alliance focuses its grantmaking in key geographic regions that are home to globally important tropical forests with significant potential for mitigating climate change.

Global

We support international public and private sector policies, programs, and finance that help conserve forests and lands, and increase their ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere while securing the rights and livelihoods of indigenous peoples and rural communities, and protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services.

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Brazil

We support efforts to mitigate climate change by reducing emissions from deforestation and by capturing and storing carbon in Brazil’s Amazon and Cerrado biomes, while promoting biodiversity conservation, the sustainable use of natural resources, and equity and rights for indigenous peoples and traditional communities.

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Indonesia

We support efforts to reduce emissions from Indonesia’s forests and peatlands in ways that secure indigenous peoples’ land rights, enhance local livelihoods, and contribute to sustainable development.

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Mexico & Central America

We support efforts to protect forests and the climate by strengthening indigenous and community land rights and forest management in Mexico and Central America and by sharing experiences from the region with forest communities and countries around the world.

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Colombia & Peru

We support efforts to mitigate climate change, reduce deforestation and maintain the biodiversity of natural ecosystems by strengthening indigenous and Afro-descendant communities’ rights to forests, territories, and resources; and by mitigating the negative effects of infrastructure and extractive industries.

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What We Support

The Alliance 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.

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