Climate Change

Climate change is an existential threat to our planet and all of its people. It particularly threatens low-income and Indigenous communities, and communities of color. Now is the moment to change course.

People kayaking through flooded streets of Houston.

Every year, the planet warms, and we pay the price.

We look for just and equitable solutions to solve the climate crisis, in collaboration with our state affiliates.
We fought to ensure the Biden-Harris EPA passed emissions standards on cars that paved the way to a zero-emissions future.
What’s next? We’ll fight for a clean energy economy that works for all our communities. Together, we can do it.

At LCV Education Fund, we work to build an equitable and just climate that will work well for everyone.

We look forward to a future of decarbonization and clean energy, not fossil fuel dependency. And to do it, we’re working with our partners across the environmental movement to ensure that all the work we do is just, equitable, and anti-racist.

  • We build long-term power for the climate movement
    • We shape public discourse around climate and democracy by collaborating with creative influencers and artists in communities and through digital platforms that distribute culturally-relevant content.
    • We fight for equitable and just climate progress as outlined in the Equitable and Just National Climate Platform.
    • We encourage the administration to swiftly advance bold executive actions to slash climate and other health-harming pollution in line with their commitments.
    • We inspire civic engagement by telling transformative stories using art, the media, and anywhere else we can find an audience.
    • We provide leadership training for leaders to serve on local environmental boards and commissions.
    • We empower communities across the country to make their voices heard on climate issues by working to strengthen our democracy.
    • We’re working to increase the number of pro-environment, pro-democracy judges by educating lawyers and allies about opportunities to be considered for judicial vacancies.
    • We leverage our policy expertise and relationships to push for robust implementation of federal and state climate victories.
  • We’re seeking major wins in the coming years
    • We aim to increase the number of school districts with electric bus fleets.
    • We’re working to improve access to clean public transit and ensure that communities of color directly benefit from transit infrastructure projects.
    • We’re pushing executive agencies to include climate investment (like electric vehicles and clean energy research) in their annual budgets.
    • We’re leveraging our administrative contacts to push executive agencies to shift funding from fossil fuels to clean energy.
    • We’re working with state partners to shut down fossil fuel infrastructure and block new fossil fuel projects by campaigning to pressure corporations and banks to stop funding these projects.
Cory Booker

US Senator, New Jersey

“You cannot talk about solving the problem of climate change without dealing with the urgency — the fierce urgency — of environmental injustice that is plaguing communities all around our nation.”

Cory Booker

US Senator, New Jersey

Latest on Climate Change

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As a part of Black Girl Environmentalist’s Reclaiming Our Time Campaign, LCV Education Fund partnered with Cameron Oglesby, project lead for the Environmental Justice Oral History Project, to delve into the power of storytelling.

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Fostering Future Environmental Leaders: South Carolina’s Boards and Commissions Fellowship Program Launch

Many leaders get their start by serving on a local board or commission. Learn how one state fellowship program helps prepare future leaders to serve their communities.

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People Power
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More Than an Address: Mapping Utah’s Navajo Nation

Many Indigenous communities across the country do not have addresses for their homes, making it difficult for emergency services to find them, to receive home care or social services – or to register to vote. The Rural Utah Project, a state affiliate of the LCV Education Fund, made it their mission to identify addresses for thousands of homes in Utah's Navajo Nation.

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Wide shot of a lone house by a desert road with a butte in the distance.
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“It Is Your Space and You Have a Right to Be Here.” Service is for Everyone, Says Boards and Commissions Fellowship Alumna Shari Baber

Shari Baber never felt that City Hall was a place for her, until she became the first Black woman to serve on the Boise Parks and Recreations Commission. A 2021 graduate of the Conservation Voters Movement’s Boards and Commissions Fellowship, Shari reflects on how the program prepared her to serve on the commission and to understand how government policy can drive social justice.

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Shari Baber, LCVEF Boards & Commissions alumna
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Why LCV Education Fund is Investing in Local Boards and Commissions

The Fellowship program aims to ensure that the people influencing environmental policy are reflective of their communities, and that we are increasing the share of environmental leaders serving on boards and commissions.

Oct 4, 2023
Colorado Boards & Commissions Fellows on a bus headed to an event smile and wave at the camera.

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