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Call for Projects: Join Rio Changemakers
Are you leading a local climate or nature project and looking to connect with potential funders? Join Rio Changemakers’ first cohort, gain visibility and help shape a marketplace built for locally led action.
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Stakeholder Engagement with Evidence
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Women’s leadership as a polyculture of care and collaboration
What does leadership look like when it is rooted in care? Learn why leadership grounded in responsibility and care is essential for building equitable, nature-positive futures.
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Call for Projects: Join Rio Changemakers
Are you leading a local climate or nature project and looking to connect with potential funders? Join Rio Changemakers’ first cohort, gain visibility and help shape a marketplace built for locally led action.
APPLY NOW
Stakeholder Engagement with Evidence
Working on restoration, natural resource management or climate action? Learn how to bring people, systems and evidence together with our new free, self-paced course.
ENROLL NOW
Women’s leadership as a polyculture of care and collaboration
What does leadership look like when it is rooted in care? Learn why leadership grounded in responsibility and care is essential for building equitable, nature-positive futures.
WATCH REPLAY
Call for Projects: Join Rio Changemakers
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Rio Changemakers
Applications are now open for the first Rio Changemakers marketplace cohort.
Rio Changemakers is inviting high-impact climate and nature projects to join its first marketplace cohort ahead of its launch at COP31.
Developed by the GLF and the Government of Luxembourg, the AI-enabled platform connects credible, locally led climate and nature solutions with investors and funders.
Women-led, youth-led and locally led initiatives, including those led by or working with Indigenous Peoples and local communities, are especially encouraged to apply.
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Superspreading ships, organic eggs and why fewer fires are burning
News to know in the ThinkLandscape digest
How rising fuel prices are hampering conservation work
Conservationists in the Global South are scaling back their work and even their social lives
AI marketplace for climate and nature opens call for projects seeking USD 300,000+ in finance (EN·FR)
Selected projects will join the first cohort of Rio Changemakers. The priority deadline is 22 August 2026.
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Measuring Progress
How should we restore mangroves in Asia and the Pacific?
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Food & Livelihoods
The climate crisis is making us sick
27 Jul 2026 -
Food & Livelihoods
We filmed a documentary in the mountain gorilla heartland
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Measuring Progress
Greenland is opening its doors, but will it lose itself?
20 Jul 2026
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2026 Forests Restoration Steward, Lizet Mejía, shares how she blends ancestral knowledge with citizen science
Lizet Mejía, 2026 Forests Restoration Steward, shares how she promotes a scalable model for protecting watersheds and empowering local communities in Peru. LEARN MORE
2026 Drylands Restoration Steward, Breno Amajunepá, combines traditional knowledge to restore degraded areas
Breno Amajunepá, 2026 Drylands Restoration Steward, reflects on the role of indigenous youth in restoration efforts DIVE DEEPERIn the spotlight
A GLFx documentary film: Seeds of Caatinga!
In the Serra da Capivara territory of Northeastern Brazil, siblings Maria Geane and Gean launched a transformative agroforestry project aimed at revitalizing the Caatinga.Joshua Laizer (GLFx Maasai Steppe Coordinator): “The land can forgive if you give it time”
GLFx Masai Steepe coordinator Joshua Laizer interviewed by GEF on STELARR, pastoralist-led rangeland restoration, and climate-resilient livestock
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