Rockefeller Family Fund: Climate Grant is sponsored by Rockefeller Family Fund. Supports initiatives that reduce fossil fuel production and promote sustainable energy solutions, holding polluters accountable and fostering citizen engagement for climate action.

Climate | Rockefeller Family Fund Recognizing that there is no path to reducing climate change without limiting fossil fuel production, RFF’s climate program funds and develops the best opportunities to slow the production of oil and gas and make climate polluters pay for the damage they have caused.

Climate Accountability Initiative Meaningful climate progress will require breaking through the resistance of the fossil fuel industry and its allies, who to this day, continue to advance a business model that accelerates the climate crisis.

To accomplish this, we support programs designed to engage and motivate citizens demanding change, deepen public recognition of those most responsible for the climate disruption now unfolding, unmask forces working to prevent climate progress and policies, and require polluters to pay their fair share of the climate damages they caused to help the public meet enormous climate adaptation expenses we now face.

Specifically, RFF’s initiative helps cities and states pursuing climate damages in court from deceptive companies, enacts first-of-its-kind laws to make polluters pay their fair share of climate adaptation costs, supports scientists working to improve climate attribution methodologies; and holds responsible companies accountable for their ongoing efforts to greenwash and deceive the public about the crisis they have caused and for blocking a sustainable energy future.

The Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas Over two decades, RFF has worked in opposition to the coal industry while increasing support to groups fighting oil, gas, plastics, and petrochemicals infrastructure. The United States became the world's largest gas producer in 2011 and the largest oil producer in 2018. Today, the U.S. is producing more oil than any country ever before , and is the world's largest gas producer and exporter.

The Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas is a team of strategists hosted by the Rockefeller Family Fund that partners with funders and communities to stop the expansion of the oil and gas industry.

Whether delaying massive gas export projects or tackling new threats, the Funder Collaborative's strategic guidance and thought partnership has helped shift the field’s priorities, mobilize funders, and equip communities with the support they need to win. Please check out our series of articles in the Stanford Social Innovation Review and contact Sarah Brennan at [email protected] to learn more.

Collaboration is key to our success. Our staff work in close partnership with aligned funders, experts, and national, state, and local leaders to build and implement complex initiatives that can drive necessary progress.

RFF created and became the public face of the #ExxonKnew campaign, led by RFF-initiated investigative journalism and academic research projects and boosted by high-profile articles in the New York Review of Books by then RFF President and family member David Kaiser and our director Lee Wasserman. The campaign exposed decades of deception by major oil companies and their in-depth knowledge of the damage fossil fuels would cause.

The project catalyzed dozens of lawsuits brought by states and municipalities against oil companies for the damage they have caused by their history of climate deception. We are the most comprehensive advocacy initiative directly confronting the oil industry in the United States at every stage of its life cycle. Associate Director for Oil and Gas Assistant Director for Oil and Gas