Equation Campaign and Global Climate Legal Defense

Equation Campaign and Global Climate Legal Defense (ECGCLD) is a ten-year funding initiative to bring about a safe and just future by enhancing the power of movements to keep oil and gas in the ground. ECGCLD will host a learning convening for partners. This X-Grant supports travel costs for the convening.

The award provides general operating support for the Equation Campaign and Global Climate Legal Defense (ECGCLD). ECGCLD is a ten-year funding initiative to bring about a safe and just future by enhancing the power of movements to keep oil and gas in the ground. In pursuit of this goal, ECGLCD has established the Frontline Environmental Justice Fund to make grants to frontline communities, ensuring they are getting the resources that they need to carry out effective campaigns. Grantmaking is guided by a strategy that prioritizes shifting financial power away from the oil and gas industry, elevating frontline stories, providing legal support and defense, and lifting individual campaigns toward building a larger movement. The Equation Campaign is implementing the Frontline Environmental Justice Fund’s strategy, and anticipates additional focus on key pipeline fights, including additional targeted legal support for local organizations and activists.