Climate Change and Philanthropy Infrastructure: Supporting the Ecosystem to Act

The global impact of the climate crisis, increasingly marked by deadly heatwaves, droughts, floods, and other climate-related disasters, endangers all aspects of society, particularly vulnerable groups. This makes philanthropy's role, not only in achieving climate neutrality, but also in supporting adaptation, resilience, and broader climate action, more and more important.The scale of the challenge calls for collective action, and PIOs are integral to fostering collaboration, innovation and impact within the broader philanthropic ecosystem. The publication serves as a comprehensive directory of PIOs supporting European foundations in navigating the complex and rapidly evolving climate philanthropy landscape.This is the third edition of the report, covering 33 PIOs operating across European, national, regional and global levels. It provides an updated snapshot of the diverse actors that are contributing to supporting and shaping the field, including thematic and geographic networks, associations, pooled funds, consulting and advisory organisations and media entities.By providing a snapshot of the actors supporting climate philanthropy, the European Philanthropy Coalition for Climate aims to equip foundations, whether they are just beginning their climate journeys or are ready to demonstrate leadership, with the tools and networks they need to act

How to Integrate Climate into your Philanthropic Programmes : What foundations need to know, and where to begin

Climate change impacts the work of every foundation – from health and education to social justice, culture and community. Integrating climate into their programmatic work allows foundations to mitigate growing risks while unlocking co-benefits that strengthen their mission. This publication supports foundations to begin or deepen their climate integration journey, in a way that aligns with their organisational values, assets and experience

Feeling the Heat : How Foundations Can Use their Investments to Curb Climate Change

Climate change is already impacting the people, places and causes that foundations care about. Still, for a variety of reasons, philanthropy practitioners often struggle to translate their awareness and concern into action at the scale and pace that are required. For many foundations, responsible and sustainable stewardship of a foundation's assets that takes climate change into consideration and seeks alignment with a rapid and just transition to a net-zero economy, is an important part of addressing climate change.By surfacing the examples of three European foundations – which differ in shape, size and geographic location and do not have climate at the core of their mission – we hope to illustrate what this process can look like and some of the challenges and opportunities this creates. We hope this provides a valuable resource for foundations on their way to climate-aligning their investments

Climate philanthropy networks : Shaping and supporting the philanthropy ecosystem in the field of climate

This mapping shows the growing diversity and number of networks that have embraced the mission to support and grow the development of the philanthropy ecosystem in the field of climate. The twenty-one organisations presented range from those that are solely dedicated to climate issues to more general networks that work in a range of areas. Each profile gives a flavor of the organisation or platform's activities and goals. This mapping exercise is part of the activities of the Philanthropy Coalition for Climate (https://philea.eu/how-we-can-help/initiatives/philanthropy-coalition-for-climate/), a group of foundations, philanthropy infrastructure organisations and other partners gathered around the aim to empower philanthropy to drive bold climate action and transformational change in Europe and beyond

The neural and computational bases of semantic cognition

Semantic cognition refers to our ability to use, manipulate and generalize knowledge that is acquired over the lifespan to support innumerable verbal and non-verbal behaviours. This Review summarizes key findings and issues arising from a decade of research into the neurocognitive and neurocomputational underpinnings of this ability, leading to a new framework that we term controlled semantic cognition (CSC). CSC offers solutions to long-standing queries in philosophy and cognitive science, and yields a convergent framework for understanding the neural and computational bases of healthy semantic cognition and its dysfunction in brain disorders