Ceres

CERES works with businesses that support environmental policies, to ensure policymakers are aware of the corporations support for improving the environment. This planning grant will allow CERES to determine if there is role that philanthropy can play in helping the insurance industry to be more visible in their support for action on climate change and clean energy goals. The insurance sector could be a key ally in advancing climate change policy, since the sector's profits will be affected by unpredictable, adverse weather patterns. The CERES report will allow the Environment Program to determine what strategies, if any, to pursue in this realm.

Ceres advocates for investors to build a diverse and inclusive workforce and hold senior leadership accountable for driving these sustainability priorities within their organizations. Ceres recognizes that a diverse and inclusive workforce builds more effective organizations. This grant will support Ceres to strengthen the integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion into the recruitment and hiring process and to support trainings for all staff to foster an inclusive environment and promote retention.

An additional $1 trillion per year must be invested in clean energy between now and 2050 to avoid catastrophic climate impacts. Ceres is helping catalyze substantial shifts in capital by focusing on opportunity as well as risk, including moving large companies to take bold climate and clean energy action in operations, products, and supply chains, and moving investors (including insurers) to invest in clean energy.