Climate change and the environment

Includes useful websites, publications and resources

London Funders reports
Funders’ footprint
March 2010 by London Funders
This meeting looked at the connections between responsibility for the environment and social justice, and explored how and why groups that serve London’s communities can be encouraged and supported to bring environmental awareness and changed practice into mainstream work.

Resources – useful organisations and websites
The City Bridge Trust’s Greening the Third Sector Initiative and its programme to encourage voluntary organisations to undertake and follow up eco-audits.

External Publications
An unexamined truth
Matthew Smerdon, Baring Foundation, 2010
Final report on the  special initiative on climate change and the third sector which supported non-environmental voluntary organisations and networks in making connections between the impact of climate change and their primary charitable purpose, and plan how future services could adapt.

Climate change, justice and vulnerability
Published by Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2011
This study provides a guide for analysing social vulnerability to the impact of climate change. It shows how we can learn from past UK flooding and heatwaves to measure socio-spatial vulnerability, map geographical distribution of climate disadvantage and support social justice in climate adaptation planning. 

Green Streets, Strong Communities
Reg Platt, Institute for Public Policy Research, 2011
Report on a series of projects supported by British Gas to improve the energy efficiency of homes and community buildings and put renewable energy technologies to work.

Green Up!
Community Development Foundation, 2009
A practical guide for community and voluntary groups: examples, guide to working with local authorities and a jargon buster.

How big is London's green sector?
GLA Economics 2010
What is meant by “green jobs” and “green technology”, the scale of these in London, and gaps in data and how these might be plugged.

Is localism delivering for climate change?
Faye Scott, Green Alliance, 2011
Explores the impact of the Coalition’s localism agenda on climate change action by head authorities. 

London environment revealed
Joint report of the Greater London Authority, Environment Agency, Forestry Commission and Natural England, 2011
A comprehensive report into the state of London’s environment. Despite progress in many areas, the report warns that London continues to face big challenges from a growing population and changing climate. 

London's low carbon economy
London Councils, 2010
These case studies are of work in progress across London to tackle climate change and move London nearer a low carbon economy by helping households and businesses reduce their carbon footprint and identifying opportunities presented by the growth and development in low carbon technologies, low carbon businesses, and associated jobs and investment. Six are from individual boroughs: Camden, City of London, Croydon, Haringey, Southwark, Sutton; one an alliance of four East London boroughs and the London Development Agency; and the pan-London programme for retrofitting homes. 

Maximizing impact: an integrated strategy for grantmaking and mission investing in climate change
Mark Kramer, Adeeb Mahmud, Serah Makka, FSG Social Impact Advisors, 2010
An informative and practical guide addressing the issue that few funders have yet developed a comprehensive approach that links mission investing and grantmaking into a single integrated strategy.

Where the green grants went 5
Environmental Funders Network, 2012
A major new report into environmental philanthropy analyses the grantmaking of 147 UK foundations over three years, with new data on the scale of environmental philanthropy, amounts devoted to different environmental issues, which UK regions receive the most funding, and trends. This report offers a real contribution to smarter funding in this field.

 

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