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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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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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NewsResidential solar is the best deal in town
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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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NewsGrowing our way out of greenhouse gasses
Can food and agricultural waste provide a solution to climate change?
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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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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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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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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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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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NewsLion Recovery Fund aims to halt lion crisis while there is still hope
LRF announces six grants across key lion states in Africa to support lion conservation.
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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