What is the European Climate Foundation?
This extremely well-funded organisation wants to "broaden political and public support for net zero"
Today I wanted to explore the European Climate Foundation (ECF), a grant-making foundation that frequently comes up when I am researching globalist bodies. For instance, it funds C40 Cities, the supposedly environmentalist blob which Sadiq Khan is co-chair of; The New Economy Organisers Network, an organisation that gives media training to activists to “create positive social change”; and Climate Spring, a global organisation that is trying to embed climate “storytelling” into TV and theatre productions:
Established in 2008, the ECF says its “mission is to empower people across society to create a net-zero world”, working with “over 700+ partner organisations to drive progress towards the goals of the Paris Agreement, promote practical policymaking in response to the climate crisis, and broaden political and public support for net zero.”
Its CEO Laurence Tubiana was a key architect of the Paris Agreement and is the United Nations High Level Champion for Climate Action. As the UN website puts it, “She has been a member of numerous boards and scientific committees, including the Chinese Committee on the Environment and International Development”, among other achievements.
The ECF has its head office in The Hague, The Netherlands, with “foundation offices” in Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, London, Madrid, Paris and Warsaw, “as well as a dedicated EU institutions and governance programme based in Brussels.”
Its total expenditure for 2025 was €171 million, thanks to the following funders: the McCall MacBain Foundation, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Arcadia, Robert Bosch Stiftung (stiftung is German for “foundation”), Sequoia Climate Foundation, Climate Works Foundation, AKO Foundation, Laudes Foundation, Porticus, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Climate Imperative Foundation, KR Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, IKEA Foundation, Rainier Climate, Postcode Lottery Netherlands, Quadrature Climate Foundation and Oak Foundation. (The KR Foundation and Quadrature Climate Foundation also fund Climate Spring).
