The Policy & Activism programme is focused on funding NGOs, interest groups and think-tanks that are working to influence decision-making, whether broadly relating to climate policy or at a project-level to halt activities that directly worsen the climate crisis.
The first funds will be distributed for this programme in 2024, with a focus on campaigns and projects with verifiable impact. All applications will be evaluated by Board Member and Programme Esther Michelsen Kjeldahl and an independent 4-member committee, with experience in fields of climate policy and activism.
“To confront the scale of the challenge of the climate crisis, we need climate justice activists, grant-giving organisations, frontline communities and policy-makers to collaborate. I look forward to working with grantees through the Askehave Climate Foundation to enable this collaboration and cooperation.”
Esther Michelsen Kjeldahl
We are not currently reviewing applications for this programme. Applications will be open during 2023 and charities, NGOs, think-tanks will be selected by the Programme expert and invited to apply.
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The Research & Innovation programme funds university-based research groups and academic institutions working on technologies, methods and theories that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or accelerate climate adaptation or mitigation.
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Humanitarian Response
The Humanitarian Response programme provides financing for crisis response in regions experiencing the impact of climate change and where capacities to protect vulnerable populations are low.
Programme expert
Esther Michelsen Kjeldahl is the co-founder of the Danish youth-led grassroots organization The Green Youth Movement (Den Grønne Ungdomsbevægelse) and author of Vi er sammen om at mærke det (2020), a book that helps readers find their role in the climate justice movement and analyses the deeper societal, philosophical and economic roots of the climate crisis. Esther has an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and a master’s in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen.
