Environmental Justice: Funding Community Activists and Land Rights

What happens when you enable those living on the land agency over decision-making and resources to protect their environments and the places they call home? That is what the Environmental Justice Fund and The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility aims to find out. Dedicated to the belief that environmental justice forms a critical part of social justice struggles across the world, these two funding groups are providing grants to community leaders and activists who are designing their own responses to the climate crises directly affecting their own communities.
Listen to our virtual conversation with leaders Lisa Chamberlain, Executive Director of the Environmental Justice Fund, and Nonette Royo, Executive Director at Tenure Facility, on how they are shifting power in the environmental protection and climate justice space back to the communities occupying and stewarding these lands.
Recorded October 5, 2022.