Who we are?
A global platform for nurturing climate workers and changemakers from the Global Majority to co-create organisations, activations and decisions that shape our shared futures.
What we do
Decisions
Climate talks need global voices
Organisations
From initiatives to institutions
Activations
The Boldest leadership comes from the corners
Recent updates
Since 2019:
39+
leaders
29
countries represented
89%
of alumni accessed key opportunities
04
UNFCCC vulnerable groups collaborated with
89 percent of alumni credit the program with helping them access key opportunities such as being recognized as knowledge providers and active negotiators of their official national climate delegations, admitted to academic programs, and securing jobs including positions within the UN.
Our fellows come from 29 countries across three regions: Africa (Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ethiopia, Guinea, Malawi, Mali, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe), Asia & Pacific (Fiji, Malaysia, Nepal, Palau, Philippines, Samoa, Timor-Leste and Vanuatu), and Latin America and the Caribbean (Argentina, Colombia, Commonwealth of Dominica, Dominican Republic, Panama and Peru).
Thought leadership on the negotiations on the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM), its Santiago Network on Loss and Damage (SNLD), the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD)
Collaborations with the chairs of four of the vulnerable groups under the UNFCCC including the African Group of Negotiators (AGN), Independent Alliance of Latin and Caribbean (AILAC), Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group.
Theory of change
The challenge
Those closest to climate impacts, particularly leaders and communities in the Global Majority, remain underrepresented and under-resourced in the spaces where climate decisions are made, organisations are built and climate action is shaped.
CLI’s response
We accompany emerging and established Global Majority climate leaders through care-based, long-term leadership development that builds:
Capacity
Technical + leadership skills
Power
Agency + ability to navigate complexity
Connection
Peers + mentors + networks
Context
Lived experience + Global Majority knowledge
Three pathways
Decisions
The New Generation –
Young leader from the Global Majority have greater presence, confidence and influence in climate decision-making spaces.
Organisations
The Visionaries –
Global Majority climate organisations are stronger, more resilient and better equipped to pursue long-term change.
Activations
The Troublemakers –
Changemakers generate bold, locally rooted climate
Systems change
More Global Majority leaders leading, collaborating and influencing across:
Climate diplomacy | Civil society | Movements
Campaigns | Organisations | Policy
Climate diplomacy | Public discourse
Long-term impact
Climate decisions, organising and activism are increasingly shaped by leaders from the communities most affected by climate change
Ultimate change
Scaled up climate action and more equitable climate outcomes resulting in climate futures shaped by the knowledge, lived experiences and solutions of the Global Majority.
Our partners
Working alongside organisations who share our commitment to stronger, more representative climate leadership.
In their own words
Hear from the funders, partners, fellows and alumni whose experiences, growth and leadership sit at the heart of CLI.