Greener fundraising in a climate crisis

Delighted to have been asked to contribute to the European Fundraising Association’s November Special Focus feature on greener fundraising in a climate crisis.

Here’s an excerpt:

As world leaders debate how best to tackle global warming at COP26, the extent of the climate crisis and the need for urgent action has never been more apparent. In Fundraising Europe, we explore what steps nonprofits can take towards greener and more sustainable fundraising.

Cited as the world’s best and last chance to get spiralling climate change under control, the United Nations’ annual climate change conference COP26 is well underway in Scotland. Global leaders have set out a raft of new pledges to end deforestation, halve emissions in little over eight years and to boost investment in renewable energy, all in a desperate plea to protect the planet, limiting further global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees.

Climate change is nothing new, but rising sea levels and ocean acidity, increasingly erratic weather patterns, wildfires and flash flooding, shrinking glaciers and arctic ice all highlight the devastating impact of human activity on the planet. The burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, farming methods and food production are key culprits in releasing harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, escalating global temperatures. And while climate change has implications for us all, it will inevitably be the most disadvantaged and vulnerable communities that bear the brunt.

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