Equation Campaign

Ready for some good news? Since 2020, we have quadrupled our grantmaking to a total of $37.2 million dollars! We have moved these funds to frontline communities, lawyers, finance campaigners, and media experts—all working to stop catastrophic emissions at the source by halting the extraction and buildout of oil and gas. ? Read our 2023 Impact Report: https://lnkd.in/eMYgvShj Supporting the groups most threatened by climate injustice and most threatening to the industry is both strategic and necessary for other climate solutions to succeed. ? Sign-up for our newsletter to learn more about investing in the power of the frontlines: https://lnkd.in/eqwFXZ9N

"This is a momentous day for our country, our communities, and the climate. What’s at stake is everything we love, and so we’ve given everything we’ve got. But, like everyone who cares about the climate, I’ll be back on the front lines tomorrow, no matter who wins today." Check out the latest Dispatch from the Frontlines from our board member Rep. Justin J. Pearson!

Thanks to The Chronicle of Philanthropy for sharing our thoughts on this critical moment around the world for climate defenders, and why we believe legal defense is fundamental to philanthropic strategies to address the climate crisis. How can funders help? ? Raise the issue of legal risks at the outset and ask grantees about the specific threats they face ? Include funds for legal defense in every climate grant ? Use intermediary funders with legal expertise such as?Global Climate Legal Defense (CliDef), Environmental Defenders Collaborative, Equation Campaign?and the?Foundation for International Law for the Environment Read more from our Executive Director Betsy A. and our Founding President, Alfred Brownell ?? https://lnkd.in/erqQ9KHi #climatephilanthropy #climatedefense #climateactivism

?? Federal regulators are underplaying the dangers of the liquefied natural gas buildout along the Gulf Coast on climate change and on surrounding communities, including on the people of color already overburdened by pollution. A new report studied six operational or proposed LNG terminals in Louisiana and Texas, and found that fenceline communities experience a?higher-than-normal illness and exposure to harmful emissions and environmental damage such as loss of wildlife, wetlands and coastline. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eMX4-NhS And learn about our support of communities in the region: https://lnkd.in/esQAWUCg

Researchers at the University of London and International Institute for Sustainable Development have published the first peer-reviewed study in a scientific journal showing that the world has enough fossil fuel projects planned to meet global energy demand forecasts to 2050, and that governments should stop issuing new oil, gas, and coal licenses. This study expands on the International Energy Agency (IEA)'s 2021 study, but we know that fossil fuel companies will continue to dangerously ignore this study. That's why we back the leaders and movements working to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Read more about our work: https://lnkd.in/eFuRX-Qj https://lnkd.in/gJ9wUnrh

“There is no evidence that big oil and gas companies are acting seriously to be part of the energy transition.” — David Tong on the results of the fourth annual Big Oil Reality Check from Oil Change International. ?? The new report reinforces what so many climate organizers across the country already know: we can’t wait for fossil fuel corporations in America to do the right thing, and we definitely can’t take their word for it. Philanthropy must keep investing in the bold strategies that disrupt the power of the oil and gas industry and build people power on the frontlines to protect their communities from oil and gas expansion. https://lnkd.in/e_aup7gF

Juan Benito Mancias (Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas) draws his identity from the landscape at the Rio Grande’s end not because he owns it, but because it owns his people, literally. His ancestors lie buried in it, going back millennia. Today, Juan faces a formidable foe at the last frontier for oil and gas on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Every other major inlet from the Mississippi River east through Port Arthur, Houston, Freeport, Lavaca Bay and Corpus Christi is already ringed with refineries, chemical plants, and terminals.? But at the farthest tip of Texas, the Rio Grande meets the Gulf between wildlife refuges, a state park, and a majestic wilderness that still shelters endangered and little-known wildlife. A new $18 billion mega-project, named Rio Grande LNG, is a 750-acre facility will eventually pipe in up to 27 million tons per year of gas from fracked wells in the Permian Basin, supercool it to -260 degrees Fahrenheit, and load it onto tanker ships for sale overseas as liquified natural gas (LNG). On an adjacent tract, another project called Texas LNG intends to build atop a site called Garcia Pasture—an ancient village ground where people lived seasonally for almost 800 years. It’s part of an explosion of lookalike projects that quickly made the United States the world’s top exporter of liquified gas and drove soaring gas production at home. Read more to learn why Juan and the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas continue to resist, and why we support their work via Inside Climate News: https://lnkd.in/ehmmpJhm

For years, scientists have been?sounding the alarm?that carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is?not an effective way?to reduce emissions?and is?most often used?for?enhanced oil recovery, which means accessing more fossil fuels to be burned. CCS advocates aim to sequester carbon emissions from power plants, send it through pipelines, and inject it underground.?There have already been dangerous explosions that threatened local communities. Today, there are only about 5,000 miles of carbon pipelines in the US, but there are plans to greatly expand this pipeline network. At Equation Campaign, we support local organizers who are working to stop these false solutions and dangerous pipelines in their backyards. Read more on carbon pipelines from Emily Sanders at ExxonKnews : https://lnkd.in/eMdZXCwd Learn more about Equation Campaign and how to support our work: https://lnkd.in/eFuRX-Qj

Despite increasing recognition from large, influential funders and institutions, the role of intermediary organizations like Equation Campaign who are resourcing grassroots organizations is not widely known. In this Stanford Social Innovation Review article, we loved how the authors broke down the top ways that the intermediary model is transforming how capital flows to communities who have been disenfranchised by white supremacy, racial capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy. Intermediaries supporting justice movements are: ?? Born?From?Movements, Not Just For ?? Expanding Philanthropic Reach and Access ?? Agile and Durable in Times of Crisis ?? More Than Money ?? Navigating Positional Power from Gatekeeping to Gate-Opening ?? Growing with Boldness Thanks for writing this excellent breakdown Sonya Crespo Childress of Color Congress, Aldita Amaru Gallardo, Jennie Goldfarb of Liberation Ventures, Allistair Mallillin of Common Counsel Foundation, Lindley Mease of CLIMA Fund, Alicia Sanchez Ruiz (she/all) and Angela Vo of Emergent Fund! It is great to be in community with you! ?? https://lnkd.in/e6Xmr63j

"Calling climate justice, it's about time 'Cause our Black people on the front line Ain't you seeing what I'm seeing Hurricanes and fires blazing, flooding in Savannah basin." Louis VI, a graduate of Fossil Free University (FFU), was just featured on NPR for his new mixtape, "Orange Skies" FFU, a project of Equation Campaign, is a training course for climate justice activists around the world who want to channel the power of movements to stop the climate crisis. Read the NPR story: https://lnkd.in/euZUzq8C Sign-up for the FREE course with Arizona State University: https://lnkd.in/ecCTHPFF