SilverLining Announces $20.5 Million in Funding to Advance its Governance and Equity Initiatives on Near-Term Climate Risk and Climate Intervention
SilverLining announces $20.5 million in funding from leading climate foundations: Quadrature Climate Foundation, Pritzker Innovation Fund, 2040 Foundation, Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust, and Casey & Family Foundation. Building on five years of impact working successfully across political and societal divides, the funding will support SilverLining in its core governance, equity, and engagement initiatives over three years.
SilverLining is a U.S.-based, international non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring a safe near-term climate, with an emphasis on the world’s most vulnerable people and ecosystems. The organization funds and catalyzes research programs and engages with a broad ecosystem of stakeholders to advance equitable and effective governance and wide engagement on the potential for rapid climate interventions to reduce near-term climate risks.
Among its influential activities, SilverLining’s landmark 2022 report, Near Term Climate Risk and Intervention defined a roadmap for research, U.S. research investments, and international cooperation on the potential for climate interventions to reduce near-term climate risks. SilverLining’s series of papers with the international thought leader Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) reviews the UN landscape and describes forward steps toward equitable and effective international governance and decision-making on climate interventions.
Reducing greenhouse gases is urgent and imperative for addressing climate change. The grave risks of projected near-term warming require that society also rapidly improve its ability to carefully consider the potential for climate interventions such as increasing the reflection of sunlight from clouds and particles in the atmosphere to reduce these risks. Equitable and effective decision-making on climate interventions requires robust and open scientific research alongside expanded capacity for research and decision-making among those communities most affected by climate change – Global South, Indigenous and young people.
"SilverLining is addressing a pressing gap in the world's understanding of climate risks and potential climate interventions,” stated Rachel Pritzker, President and Founder of Pritzker Innovation Fund. “I have been extremely impressed by SilverLining's ambitious research agenda and its effectiveness at shaping science-based policy and engaging a wide array of stakeholders in the organization's work."
The new funding will support expansion of SilverLining’s policy advocacy and equity programs, with $1.5 million specifically dedicated to SilverLining’s Global Young Leaders Initiative (GYLI) supporting youth leaders and youth-led organizations, including new grantees Operaatio Arktis and Green Africa Youth Organization, in engagement on climate intervention with an emphasis on the Global South.
"We are honored to receive this significant and generous support from philanthropic funders who join us with their commitment to addressing climate change and working across societal boundaries." said SilverLining's Executive Director, Kelly Wanser. “We still have a great deal of funding to raise and work to do to advance groundbreaking programs to accelerate knowledge and options for society. This new funding supports strong steps forward in the path to ensuring a safe near-term climate for all.”
About SilverLining
SilverLining is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that society has sufficient options to address near-term climate risk. SilverLining engages globally with scientists, policymakers, civil society and the general public to advance research, innovation and equity in efforts to ensure a safe climate. Based in Washington D.C., the organization’s team members span the world. SilverLining is funded by philanthropic organizations and individuals focused on addressing climate change. Learn more about the impact of SilverLining’s efforts at https://www.silverlining.ngo.
About Quadrature Climate Foundation
Established in 2019 by the founders of Quadrature Capital, Quadrature Climate Foundation (QCF) is committed to unlocking the critical solutions needed to avert and manage the worst climate impacts especially for the world’s most vulnerable people and ecosystems. They embrace a science-based approach to grantmaking across the full suite of climate solutions - reducing greenhouse gas emissions, finding and scaling ways to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, and managing current and inevitable climate change impacts - to deliver a climate-resilient future for those most affected.
About the Pritzker Innovation Fund
The Pritzker Innovation Fund (PIF) supports the development and advancement of paradigm-shifting ideas to solve the world's most wicked problems, with a focus on Climate and Energy and U.S. Democracy. Its Climate and Energy program supports think tanks, academic institutions, and advocacy organizations driving new ideas in the climate and energy debate. PIF leverages its resources by focusing on areas that are often overlooked and underfunded, including energy for development, nuclear power, carbon removal, and sunlight reflection research.