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We are nearing a year since unprecedented financial commitments toward gender equality were made at the Generation Equality Forum (GEF). The 5-year commitments are aimed at realising a complete change in the landscape of gender equality by 2026. It will be impossible to achieve this ambitious change if historical patterns of grant-making continue.

The magnitude of the problem posed by climate change is not lost on major benefactors, who are similarly coming to terms with it. Therefore, they are allocating substantial resources to safeguard the environment and the populations that would suffer the most from its rapid deterioration. The 3030 initiative, launched in September by nine separate institutions, pledged to spend $5 billion by 2030 to protect at least 30 percent of the world's land and sea.