With multilateralism under threat, Europe must seize its leadership role to drive forward an ambitious climate policy, despite the tensions. This is the appeal made by the European Climate Foundation (ECF) - a philanthropic organisation - in its 2024 annual report, published on Wednesday 23 July.
To achieve this, the European Union must build on its Clean Industrial Deal (see EUROPE 13588/1) and consider climate issues in the light of its citizens’ economic interests.
In this way, “innovation, fairness and resilience” should go hand in hand, according to the ECF, which, positioning itself as a “catalyst for climate action (...) on the ground”, is asserting its determination to stay the course in terms of learning and adaptation.
As a strategic grant-maker whose network has grown from 282 beneficiaries in 2018 to more than 700 in 2024, the foundation intends to make them the main levers for “collective change”.
The ECF also takes account of the national level as a springboard for change, and is therefore committed to investing in “locally grounded” partners, including those outside the climate sphere.
To read the report: https://aeur.eu/f/i0s (Original version in French by Nithya Paquiry)