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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
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NewsA roadmap to 100% renewable hydrogen
Energy Independence Now (EIN), in collaboration with The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and The California Hydrogen Business Council (CHBC), released a roadmap outlining key strategies to promote renewable hydrogen (RH2) production that will help California achieve its clean energy and clean transportation goals.
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NewsWhy mountains matter
Half the world’s population depends on mountain ecosystems, yet climate change is threatening their continued existence. It’s time to protect the world’s mountains for the sake of future generations.
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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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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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NewsDiscovering new life in forests after fire
Conifer forests in the western U.S. are home to a special type of habitat known as “snag forests” that contain some of the highest levels of animal and plant diversity and abundance of any forest type. These important places are created when patches of intense, high-severity fire occur within larger wildfires.
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NewsWorld Oceans Day: Fighting for healthy oceans
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NewsNew report proves 100% Renewable is achievable and affordable
A new scientific article debunks a number of myths used against renewable energy.
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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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NewsInsideClimate News launches the National Environment Reporting Network
InsideClimate News is working to ensure the news ecosystem doesn’t lose the environmental journalist.
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NewsNew study finds catastrophic loss of mangroves
Mangroves are vital to stabilizing the global climate system but we are losing them at an alarming rate.
