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Dedicated to the long-term health and wellbeing of all Earth’s inhabitants
Our Mission
The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation is dedicated to the long-term health and wellbeing of all Earth’s inhabitants. Through collaborative partnerships, we support innovative projects that protect vulnerable wildlife from extinction, while restoring balance to threatened ecosystems and communities. LDF's grantmaking program encompasses six focus areas:
- year founded
1998
- projects funded
200+
- grants awarded
$80.1m
- organizations supported
132
- countries
50
- oceans
5
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“Clean air, water, and a livable climate are inalienable human rights. And solving this crisis is not a question of politics, it is a question of our own survival.”
Leonardo DiCaprio -
“In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources, and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy, and peace.”
Wangari Maathai -
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together… all things connect.”
Chief Seattle
Before The Flood
Watch Leonardo's documentary on climate change and learn how you can make a difference.
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NewsNature for Water: protection of ecosystems is key to water security
UNDP and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation release white paper detailing the need for environmental conservation to help address a growing water crisis.
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NewsShould ‘regenerative’ agriculture get its own label?
Some groups want to compete with the organic label and raise the standards for eco-conscious consumers. But others worry that another label could end up sowing market confusion.
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NewsWe can’t burn our way out of the climate crisis
Burning trees in power plants is a vision from Mordor, not one of clean energy, but electricity generation from wood and other biomass is growing around the world, spurred on by billions in renewable energy subsidies.
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NewsLeonardo speaks at Postcode Lottery Gala in Amsterdam and celebrates new partnership with LDF
Leonardo DiCaprio spoke as special guest at the Postcode Lottery charity gala in Amsterdam on behalf of LDF. After addressing the audience, he was surprised to be presented with a check for €900,000 for his Foundation to support their efforts to address climate change and protect biodiversity.
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NewsNo more blackouts anywhere in the world with 100% wind, water, and sunlight
The biggest question facing the transition by countries, states, and cities to 100% clean, renewable energy is whether variable energy sources, such as wind and solar, can be combined with storage and transmission to meet variable demand, or whether blackouts will occur.
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NewsKeeping the world below 1.5C with 100% renewable energy
A global warming target of 1.5˚C is in reach without the need for BECCS or other forms of geoengineering.
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News1.5C is possible but only if we radically scale natural climate solutions
A recent scientific assessment tells us we can still reach the goals of the Paris Agreement. Good news: our greater ‘ambition’ to combat climate change should give us more of what we want anyway.
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NewsLDF partners with LACMA to convert Chris Burden’s Urban Light to LED lighting
In honor of the 10th anniversary of Chris Burden’s Urban Light at the Los Angeles County Museums of Art (LACMA), LDF is proud to announce our support of the exhibit’s replacement of all 309 incandescent light bulbs with LED bulbs. This retrofit will result in approximately 90% in power savings for LACMA while also reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and other harmful pollutants.
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NewsOn World Water Day, a campaign kicks off for #LessOilMoreWater
Amazon Frontlines is launching the #LessOilMoreWater campaign to help reach the goal of bringing clean drinking water to indigenous families affected by oil contamination in the Amazon.
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NewsView from space reveals extent of fishing on global ocean
Last month, the journal Science published a remarkable new study that reveals the staggering expanse of global fishing in unprecedented resolution. More than 55% of the ocean surface is subject to industrial fishing. By area, fishing's footprint is now over four times that of agriculture.
Through collaborative partnerships, we support innovative projects that protect vulnerable wildlife from extinction, while restoring balance to threatened ecosystems and communities. Our work is divided into six main program areas – Wildlands Conservation, Oceans Conservation, Climate Change, Indigenous Rights, Transforming California, and Innovative Solutions.
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