At Earth Insight, striving for impact is what motivates our team.
We advance and fortify movement infrastructure and develop key tools that serve as levers to advance policy change and generate global issue visibility.
In just the past three years, Earth Insight has:
- Developed threat maps and analyses of fossil fuel and industrial expansion across more than 1.7 billion hectares of tropical forests in more than 20 countries.
- Built direct funding and research partnerships with more than a dozen regional, Indigenous and international organizations working in the Amazon and Congo basins, and Southeast Asia
- Completed and launched research and advocacy tools that are being used within the civil society movement and informing financial institutions and bilateral and multilateral engagement.
Highlights include:
- November 2022: Congo in the Crosshairs launched by African partners at the UNFCCC COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
- December 2022: Crisis Point: Fossil Fuel Threats to Amazon and Congo basins launched at Biodiversity COP 15 in Montreal with partners
- October 2023: Three Basins Threat Report launched with global partners from each of the forest basins for the Summit of the Three Basins in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
- December 2023: Losing Ground Report on Fossil Fuel Threats to Protected Areas released at a UN Press Conference at COP 28 in Dubai with partners including the World Commission on Protected Areas and LINGO
- June 2024: Anything But Natural Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Infrastructure Expansion Threats to Coastal Areas released ahead of World Oceans Day on June 8, 2024
- October 2024: Unheeded Warnings: Forest Biomass Threats to Tropical Forests in Indonesia and Southeast Asia launched during the Summit of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) on October 10, 2024
- October 2024: Closing Window of Opportunity: Mapping Threats to Important Areas for Conservation in the Pantropics released at a UN press conference during Cop 16 in Cali, Colombia on October 21, 2024
- October 2024: Coral Triangle at Risk: Fossil Fuel Threats & Impacts released at a UN press conference during Cop 16 in Cali, Colombia on October 26, 2024
- Developed nearly a dozen rapid threat assessments for regional partners for use in their campaigns in Central Africa, Amazonia, and Southeast Asia
- Presented threat assessments to a wide range of foreign ministries in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America and finance and policy stakeholders in a spectrum of institutions
- Generated over 200 pieces of high profile media coverage with a combined reach of 675 million unique monthly viewers. Our latest reports were featured in the Guardian (2024), Newsweek, The Africa Report, National News in the UAE, Reuters, the Guardian (2023), Bloomberg, Globe & Mail, and many many more.
We aim to address movement gaps and needs and advance ambitious policy interventions and invite you to join us in shaping this work.