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The nimble tool that can speed climate solutions

Published Sep 21, 2023
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Helen Mountford is the president and CEO of Climate Works Foundation, a philanthropy platform that has granted more than a billion dollars to worthy projects and grantees in more than 50 countries. She’s a key partner in a World Economic Forum initiative that launched this year called GAEA - Giving to Amplify Earth Action - and she'll tell us why philanthropy can be an important way to fund and experiment fore new ideas and to create an ecosystem to make big change possible.

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