Uniting the power of people with the potential of forests.

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.

What we support

From local civil society organizations to international NGOs, we support those working to change the systems that drive tropical forest destruction and undermine people’s rights and well-being. This includes supporting Indigenous Peoples’, Afro-descendants’, and local communities’ efforts to secure full recognition of their rights to their forest territories, so they can effectively manage their resources for today and for generations to come.

Supporting Indigenous Peoples’, Afro-Descendant Peoples’, and local communities’ efforts to secure and exercise their land rights and tenure, manage their forests, and support their livelihoods.
Supporting effective environmental and social governance and policies while strengthening accountability to ensure equitable and sustainable management of forest resources and a just energy transition.
Supporting resilient, inclusive movements, narratives, and collective action on justice and rights, forest protection and regeneration, and climate resilience. Learn more
Supporting just economic transitions that strengthen equity and transparency, revitalize forest economies, and reverse forest loss, while mobilizing more accessible and effective finance for forests and communities.
Supporting shifts in agricultural production, consumption, and trade toward lower-emissions, climate-resilient alternatives that benefit people and the environment, and increasing the sustainability of infrastructure and extractive industries in ways that protect communities and nature.
Secure Forest Communities’ Rights & Livelihoods
Advance Governance, Policy & Accountability
Strengthen Movements, Narratives & Collective Action
Shift Financial Systems
Improve Production, Consumption & Trade
Secure Forest Communities’ Rights & Livelihoods
Supporting Indigenous Peoples’, Afro-Descendant Peoples’, and local communities’ efforts to secure and exercise their land rights and tenure, manage their forests, and support their livelihoods.
Advance Governance, Policy & Accountability
Supporting effective environmental and social governance and policies while strengthening accountability to ensure equitable and sustainable management of forest resources and a just energy transition.
Strengthen Movements, Narratives & Collective Action
Supporting resilient, inclusive movements, narratives, and collective action on justice and rights, forest protection and regeneration, and climate resilience. Learn more
Shift Financial Systems
Supporting just economic transitions that strengthen equity and transparency, revitalize forest economies, and reverse forest loss, while mobilizing more accessible and effective finance for forests and communities.
Improve Production, Consumption & Trade
Supporting shifts in agricultural production, consumption, and trade toward lower-emissions, climate-resilient alternatives that benefit people and the environment, and increasing the sustainability of infrastructure and extractive industries in ways that protect communities and nature.

Where we focus

The Alliance focuses its grantmaking in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Indonesia, Mexico, and Central America. We also support work at the global level to ensure policies and practices halt and reverse forest loss.

Brazil

Colombia & Peru

Indonesia

Mexico & Central America

Global

Our Teams

Our teams in tropical forest countries support efforts to transform tropical forests into regenerative systems. We focus on justice, equity, ecological health, and resilience. We work toward societies driven by equality, diversity, inclusion, good governance, and economic justice.

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Our Alliance

The Climate and Land Use Alliance is a collaborative of foundations seeking to amplify the power of people and the potential of forests to achieve a just and climate-resilient world.

The Alliance also coordinates with other grant makers to ensure funding reaches those working to halt and reverse forest loss.