Grants

Sequoia Climate Foundation believes in a world powered by clean energy and protected by policies that have averted the worst impacts of climate change. We see climate change as a complex systems challenge that requires complex solutions: we work across regions and sectors to support grantees taking bold and ambitious actions to drive down emissions and accelerate a just and equitable transition to clean energy.

Grants

Sequoia Climate Foundation believes in a world powered by clean energy and protected by policies that have averted the worst impacts of climate change. We see climate change as a complex systems challenge that requires complex solutions: we work across regions and sectors to support grantees taking bold and ambitious actions to drive down emissions and accelerate a just and equitable transition to clean energy.

Our grantmaking framework considers:

Speed

Immediate climate action is needed to avoid dangerous climate tipping points and irreversible damage. To succeed, we take calculated risks on strategies that are justified by their transformative potential.

Scale

We focus on the strategies, tactics, and geographies where our grantees can have the greatest impact catalyzing rapid emissions reductions and accelerating the transition to clean energy around the world.

Cost

We have no time to lose and our resources are dwarfed by the money and influence of fossil fuel interests so we need to be extremely efficient in our use of resources. That means finding a set of investments that have a higher probability of successfully avoiding near-term warming at the lowest cost possible. We look for leveraged, catalytic opportunities for philanthropic dollars to accelerate action.

Probability of Success

We invest in science-based climate change solutions that have the highest probability of achieving the largest near-term impact. Our foundation seeks solutions that maximize results, understanding that the best solutions influence and magnify efforts by others. We aim to enable the political, economical, financial, and social conditions to achieve and implement the highest ambition policy possible.

Representative Grants

Cost-effective mitigation of non-CO2 pollutants

IGSD

Research to bend the emissions curve

Climate Policy Lab

Accelerating non-state actors’ steps towards carbon neutrality

WWF

Cross-cutting climate campaigns and programs

European Climate Foundation

Building power to stop climate change and create an equitable clean energy future

Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund