Environmental charity · Established 1988
Foundation for Gaia is an environmental charity working to protect forests, ecosystems and natural resources, and to confront the climate and environmental crisis — around the world. We raise environmental concerns where decisions are made, help shape action at the United Nations and the global climate talks, and bring the knowledge of the communities closest to the crisis into the room.
Our mission
We work from the conviction that lasting environmental protection depends on the knowledge and participation of the communities who live closest to these ecosystems — and that their knowledge belongs where environmental decisions are made.
What we do
Each is grounded in environmental education, in advocacy at the international level, and in the participation of those closest to environmental harm.
We build understanding of the environmental and climate crisis, and of the international mechanisms that shape environmental policy — equipping communities, advocates and the public to engage them, and raising awareness among decision-makers of the issues that matter most.
We bring environmental and climate concerns to the United Nations and the global climate talks (COP) — through statements, submissions and side events — and make sure the knowledge of those closest to the crisis is part of the conversation.
We work with States, institutions and civil society to press for concrete action — upholding environmental obligations, strengthening climate and environmental policy, and advancing the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
The people who defend the natural world must be heard where its future is decided.
The principle at the heart of our work