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What happens when we finally listen?
There are many conversations happening about climate justice.
Important insights and ideas are exchanged. Strategies and frameworks shared. Resources moved.
Across the climate justice ecosystem, people are working with care, urgency, and intention.
But very often, deeper tensions remain just beneath the surface.
Climate justice recognizes that the communities least responsible for climate change are often the ones experiencing its worst impacts.
These communities often hold deep, lived knowledge of systemic change – preserving carbon sinks, responsible water protection, or community resilience systems.
Meanwhile, those who steward climate resources hold a wider view of how change is supported and sustained over time.
Both perspectives matter – but they are not always seen or heard with the same weight.
And when one is repeatedly heard more than the other, the story of climate justice becomes incomplete.
So what if the room changed?
What if movements could speak from what the work actually requires?
What if funders could honestly surface how decisions are being made?
What if we could truly listen across roles, power, and lived realities?
The Listening Fields are an experiment to explore what becomes possible when...
Our realities meet without needing to be simplified, translated, or resolved too quickly.
We can voice difficult truths – and stay present when conversations become uncomfortable.
We aren't expected to arrive with answers, and instead believe relationships come first.
Over time, we believe this is the only way we can truly influence how and where funding flows.
We need trust in spaces — that they will be respectful, that we can contribute and learn, and that our knowledge will be valued.
Margarita Antonio,
International Indigenous Women Forum
What the Listening Fields Enable...
The listening fields create a new infrastructure that helps us build a deeper, more honest understanding of what is shaping climate justice work.
They will:
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Uplift stories that connect to realities behind the work – so they become treated as evidence of impact
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Show us how our experiences connect – helping us weave a collective narrative for climate justice
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Reframe what is recognized as change – shifting what feels possible to prioritize and fund
Your voice belongs here if you...
work with a movement, regrantor, or funder on climate-related issues, and...
are asking how you can listen with more integrity, care, and wonder, and...
want to shift climate philanthropy – but struggle with the how...
If that sounds like you, then we invite you to bring your questions, your humility, your experiences, and your doubts to the listening fields.
The Listening Fields are intentionally designed spaces to...
Openly share without needing to persuade or defend
Surface patterns, connections, and points of difference
Challenge assumptions with curiosity
Recognize that understanding grows slowly
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