Audacious Leaders on Radical Empathy
There’s a lot to feel optimistic about when it comes to climate change, and two of our The Audacious Project grantees will tell you why.
Nonette Royo from The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility and Nicole Rycroft from Canopy sat down to discuss their journey since the collaborative funding initiative from the Audacious Project.
The two incredible leaders are dedicated to protecting biodiversity and achieving planetary stability in very different ways but of equal importance. Watch the full video below:
What is the secret to achieving audacious goals? Radical empathy.
1. Tenure Facility plays a very important role in securing land rights for Indigenous peoples to prevent the ongoing destruction of forests 🌳
The Audacious idea? Over five years, Tenure Facility will support Indigenous Peoples and local communities to secure 50 million hectares of forests in Amazonia, the Congo Basin and tropical Asia — the largest expansion of land rights led by a single organization in modern history.
2. Canopy is saving ancient forests from being turned into t-shirts and pizza boxes through scalable next-generation solutions 🍕
The Audacious idea? By 2029, Canopy will bring 40 million tons of annual Next Gen pulp production online, using a range of strategies — from supporting innovators in scaling technologies, to helping secure capital for commercial-scale production, to encouraging mainstream producers to retrofit existing mills.
In this Audacious Leaders series, they collectively discuss:
Which Audacious leaders would you like to see next? Here's a sneak peek of one of our shoots which will be released in the forthcoming months, featuring Educate Girls and Noora Health .
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