We support community-based renewable energy projects which aim to equip people with the knowledge and tools to help themselves in an environmentally sustainable way. These projects help to alleviate poverty by using renewable energy technologies for the enhancement of income generation, agriculture, education and health. We also fund work to protect and conserve tropical rainforests.
A grant to train teachers, schoolchildren and managers to grow their own woodlots to provide a sustainable source of fuel for cooking in energy efficient cook stoves. The improved stoves use far less wood and are smoke-free, thereby protecting kitchen staff from the harmful effects of smoke.
A grant to work in an informal settlement in Nairobi to provide training and support for young people developing environmental businesses. Conflicts in Kenya following the elections in December 2007 were especially damaging to this community, yet these small enterprises offer hope and opportunity to the motivated young people who are involved in the project.
A grant to train and encourage the reporting of news stories on environmental issues. Despite the fact that climate change will be felt most acutely in developing countries, few people are aware of why weather patterns are changing. More stories in local newspapers and radio broadcasts will allow people to understand and take action on this critical issue.
A grant to aid the development of an Energy Service Provider Company (ESCO) to supply renewable energy on a commercial scale in Zambia.
A grant to explore the co-management and restoration of Asian forests in Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
A grant towards staff costs in delivering a programme of work to influence policy in the UN, EU Trading scheme, and the US for creating incentives to reduce deforestation and stimulate trading in ecosystem services.
A grant to help end the corrupting effect of industrial-scale logging and help contribute to improved forest sector accountability mechanisms.
A grant to establish a dialogue and technical exchange relating to best peatland management planning based in South East Asia and the establishment of a peatland restoration demonstration project in Malaysia.
A grant to facilitate the making of substantial long term climate change commitments by the major faith traditions at a three-day event hosted by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and Mr Ban Ki-moon.
A grant towards the One Planet eco-communities in South Africa and China.
A grant towards organisational growth to increase its capacity to provide loans, equity investments and business support to clean energy businesses in Africa, Asia and South America.
A grant towards core costs to expand the number of houses built in East Africa using stabilised soil blocks; an appropriate technology that does not require firing thereby reducing deforestation and carbon emissions.
A grant to develop a proposal for a sustainable energy project to be delivered through GBM's 4,000 community groups in Kenya.
A grant to support a Global Climate Network event at the COP 15 Copenhagen meeting.
A grant towards volunteer costs to get the sustainable brick making business in Tanzania ready for a quasi equity investment of £100,000.
