With the world now at the halfway mark for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and a plethora of natural disasters unfolding, efforts to drum up support for climate philanthropy at this year’s United Nations General Assembly are taking on new urgency.
Deadly floods in countries such as China, Libya, and the United States, as well as a ferocious hurricane season impacting vast swathes of the world, will serve as the backdrop for this year’s annual gathering in New York.
Philanthropy experts want to see donors seize the moment to accelerate and increase their funding for climate change mitigation and adaptation, which currently gets just a tiny slice of all global giving.
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Stephanie Beasley@Steph_Beasley
Stephanie Beasley is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global philanthropy with a focus on regulations and policy. She is an alumna of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Oberlin College and has a background in Latin American studies. She previously covered transportation security at POLITICO.
