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What wE Fund
our 5 action areas
EarthPercent is focused on getting resources to where they are needed most and tackling the climate and biodiversity crisis from multiple angles. To do this, we are award grants that work towards three key objectives across five key areas of climate action.
Meet Our CURRENT GRANT Partners
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Action area = Greening Music
A Greener Future (formerly A Greener Festival) helps events, festivals and venues become more sustainable through research, certification, training, expertise, and knowledge sharing. A Greener Future was the founder of the world's first green event and festival certification, and promotes positive environmental and social actions to limit and even reverse negative impacts.
Funding from EarthPercent supported the creation of a free access area on AGF’s online membership platform, providing sustainability expertise and resources and helping more people in events get started with climate action.
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Action area = Legal & Policy Change
ClientEarth uses the law to protect people’s right to a healthy planet. It works in partnership with local organisations, scientists and policymakers to create systems change that tackles pollution, biodiversity loss and fossil fuel expansion. ClientEarth informs, implements and enforces the law, advising decision-makers on policy and training legal and judicial professionals.
Our funding supported the team which successfully advocated for the groundbreaking European law stopping products that cause forest destruction from being imported, sold in or exported from the EU.
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Action Area = Protecting Nature + Climate Justice
Cool Earth champions the relationship between people, rainforest and climate and works directly with rainforest communities and local non-profits to tackle root causes of deforestation and protect vital carbon sinks. Cool Earth launched the World's first ever Basic Income pilot for people living in the Amazon rainforest.
Our funding supported a pilot Rainforest Lab in Peru to provide real-time satellite data to Indigenous communities, and the opening of two more Rainforest Labs in Oviri and Huaracayo in the Peruvian Amazon. Continued funding helps develop computer literacy and forest monitoring skills in communities where existing levels are low.
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Action area = Just Energy Transition + Climate Justice
Critical Frequency is a women-run podcast network founded by journalists combining rigorous reporting and inventive storytelling to hold the oil industry accountable. Critical Frequency has produced a total of 24 shows, including productions for Crooked Media and Stitcher’s Witness Docs. The shows have received a wide range of awards and Peabody nominations, as well as praise in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and more.
Funding from EarthPercent supported the building out of the online ‘Petroganda’ archive and securing a publishing partner network with The Guardian, The BBC, Al Jazeera, The New Republic, The Intercept, The Nation, and DeSmog.
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Action area = Climate Justice + Just Energy Transition
Global Greengrants Fund UK supports activists to take on the world’s most pressing environmental and social justice challenges. It does this through making grants to local communities to support grassroots-led efforts to protect the planet and people’s rights, primarily in the Global South.
Our funding supports frontline community resistance to fossil fuel expansion and carbon-intensive development, strengthening land tenure, and protecting forests and carbon-sequestering ecosystems. A portion also contributes to core costs.
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Action Area = Greening Music
Julie’s Bicycle works internationally across arts and culture to mobilise environmental action in the creative community. It does this in collaboration with cultural and environmental partners, and delivers learning programmes, tools, resources, and leadership initiatives, which respond to the demands of the climate crisis.
Our funding supports Julie’s Bicycle to provide expert guidance to the music sector, engaging with networks like LIVE Green and IMPALA Environmental Taskforce. It helps the music sector lead discussions on climate justice, and updates music sector-specific tools and resources in order to respond to industry requests for support.
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Action area = Greening Music
LIVE collates and provides research, expertise and cross-industry innovation that is informed by the best science and supports the transition to a regenerative future. It aims to enable all in the live music industry to commit to climate action by providing the necessary support, resources and advice. LIVE aims to build relationships within the industry and spotlight the projects taking action.
Funding from EarthPercent supported the expansion of the LIVE Green coordinator role and facilitated essential support for projects including LIVE Insights audience research and covering production costs for the sustainable cups report, 'Raising the Bar.'
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Action area = Greening Music
MDE works to make the cultural and operational changes needed across the music industry to contribute towards a carbon-neutral future. Using the power of music, MDE have created a community of support that encompasses all the major UK music organisations and businesses, over 4000 recording artists and a host of important individuals and change-makers within UK music culture.
Our funding supported the launch of the ‘Fan Club for Climate’ at Reading and Leeds Festivals, which aims to create the world’s largest climate-conscious music community. It also supported the employment of an administration assistant to streamline the organisation’s work flows and increase capacity.
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Action area = Protecting Nature
The Ocean & Us conducts advocacy work across a range of pertinent ocean issues, from climate change, overfishing and pollution, to emerging threats such as deep-sea mining.
In response to the accelerating threat from deep sea mining, founder Farah Obaidullah is embarking on a journey across the western coast of the Americas. She will engage with stakeholders from universities, fisheries associations, tech and EV companies and conservation groups rallying support for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining.
EarthPercent’s funding has supported the raising of awareness of the dangers of mining in the deep sea, a critical carbon sink. This includes launching a petition calling for a ban on deep-sea mining, organising a gathering at the Dutch parliament to deliver the petition, and influencing the International Seabed Authority.
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Action area = Just Energy Transition
Uplift works to catalyse a just transition away from UK oil and gas production by pushing the government to end expansion and to rapidly roll out onshore wind power. Working with a range of partners from policy-makers and Parliamentarians, to academics and campaigners, Uplift undertakes research, analysis and campaigning.
Our funding supported the launch of its Warm This Winter campaign, an ambitious coalition of climate and fuel poverty organisations calling for a transformation of the UK energy system. Our funding also provided additional Digital Media support to tailor and finesse Uplift’s digital campaigning for the #StopRosebank campaign.
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Action Area = Greening Music
Vision: 2025 represents a growing network of over 500 outdoor events and businesses taking positive climate action. It supports the industry’s journey toward net zero through providing tools, resources, guides, news, case studies, green suppliers directory, and events that connect people. Vision: 2025 grew from its sister project Powerful Thinking and is hosted by Julie’s Bicycle.
EarthPercent’s funding supported the update of the Creative Green carbon footprint tools and the Green Events Code of Practice, taking the Code from a working draft to a pilot project working with local authorities across the UK to explore implementation and adoption.
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Action Area = Climate Justice
Youth Climate Justice Fund supports young climate justice leaders with trust-based funding, resources, and youth-to-youth capacity development, with a focus on historically marginalised and impoverished groups. YCJF bridges funders and organizers by providing funders with more knowledge and opportunities to resource youth climate justice movements.
80% of EarthPercent’s funding to YCJF is allocated to the participatory grantmaking budget, covering up to 4 specific grants. The remaining 20% covers YCJF’s operations, including donor education and youth-to-youth capacity development.
We are proud to have previously supported the following organisations:
GRANT APPLICATION PROCESS
EarthPercent practices proactive philanthropy and actively reaches out to organizations to submit requests for funding.
For the moment, we do not accept unsolicited grant applications. However, we are happy to keep details of your organisation on file should an an opportunity arise in future.
“EarthPercent set the precedent for others in the music industry to be part of the change that our world so desperately needs.”
Tori Tsui
Expert Panellist
