Climate Emergency Fund
{{Short description|Los Angeles based nonprofit organization}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2023}}
{{Infobox organisation
| name = Climate Emergency Fund
| formation = {{start date and age|2019}}
| type = Nonprofit
| website = {{URL|www.climateemergencyfund.org}}
}}
The Climate Emergency Fund (CEF) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that supports climate change activist groups involved in civil disobedience. It was founded in 2019 by filmmaker Rory Kennedy, a member of the prominent Kennedy family, and Getty family heiress Aileen Getty.{{Cite news |date=2023-04-25 |title=Meet the Money Behind Disruptive Climate Protests |language=en |work=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-25/the-climate-emergency-fund-is-quietly-financing-a-new-era-of-activism |access-date=2023-07-07}}{{Cite news |last=Buckley |first=Cara |date=2022-08-10 |title=These Groups Want Disruptive Climate Protests. Oil Heirs Are Funding Them. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/climate/climate-protesters-paid-activists.html |access-date=2023-07-07 |issn=0362-4331}}
Activities
The CEF often supports groups that use civil disobedience tactics, including Just Stop Oil,{{Cite news |last=Gayle |first=Damien |date=2022-04-29 |title=Just Stop Oil’s ‘spring uprising’ protests funded by US philanthropists |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/29/just-stop-oils-protests-funded-by-us-philanthropists |access-date=2023-05-30 |issn=0261-3077}} Last Generation and Climate Defiance.{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Callum |title=New breed of climate protesters vows to take fight to ‘cowards’ of US politics |newspaper=The Guardian |date=2023-12-26 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/26/climate-defiance-change-protesters-confrontation}}
The CEF funded actions supporting the Inflation Reduction Act.{{Cite web |last=Kahn |first=Debra |date=2023-04-26 |title=The funder backing this weekend's WHCD protests |url=https://www.politico.com/newsletters/the-long-game/2023/04/26/the-funder-backing-this-weekends-whcd-protests-00093828 |access-date=2023-07-07 |website=POLITICO |language=en}}
Funding
{{As of|2022|August}}, Getty has donated $1 million to the fund. When he joined the board of directors in September 2022, film director Adam McKay pledged $4 million to the fund.{{Cite web |last=Chuba |first=Kirsten |date=2022-09-20 |title=Adam McKay Pledges $4M Donation to Climate Emergency Fund |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/adam-mckay-pledges-4-million-climate-emergency-fund-1235223711/ |access-date=2023-07-07 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}[https://www.npr.org/2022/10/15/1129322429/just-stop-oil-climate-activists-protest-van-gogh Who is Just Stop Oil, the group that threw soup on Van Gogh's painting?], NPR, October 15, 2022, [https://web.archive.org/web/20230110113838/https://www.npr.org/2022/10/15/1129322429/just-stop-oil-climate-activists-protest-van-gogh Archive]
The Washington Examiner reported in May 2023 that the CEF funded groups "deploying unorthodox and extremist methods across the world to protest fossil fuels."{{Cite web |date=2023-05-03 |title=Hollywood and left-wing foundations behind climate charity quietly bankrolling extremist protest groups |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/climate-emergency-fund-extremist-protest-groups-hollywood-biden |access-date=2023-09-19 |website=Washington Examiner |language=en}}
Leadership
Margaret Klein Salamon is the executive director.
= Board of directors =
- Adam McKay, film director (September 2022–present)
- Rose Abramoff, climate scientist (June 2023–present){{Cite news |last=Freedman |first=Andrew |date=2023-06-27 |title=Climate Emergency Fund adds noteworthy scientist to its ranks |url=https://www.axios.com/2023/06/27/climate-emergency-fund-abromoff |access-date=2023-07-06}}
- Jeremy Strong, actor (December 2023–present){{Cite web |last=Freedman |first=Andrew |date=December 4, 2023 |title=Exclusive: "Succession" star Jeremy Strong joins board of Climate Emergency Fund |url=https://www.axios.com/2023/12/04/jeremy-strong-climate-fund |access-date=December 8, 2023 |website=Axios}}
- Chris Packham CBE, naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter and author (October 2024-present){{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/oct/04/chris-packham-appointed-to-board-of-climate-emergency-fund|title=Chris Packham urges protesters to stop blocking roads as he takes climate role|last=Gayle|first=Damien|date=4 October 2024|work=The Guardian|accessdate=4 October 2024}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.climateemergencyfund.org/}}
Category:2019 establishments in the United States
Category:Climate change organizations based in the United States