SEEDING ABUNDANCE.
BUILDING FRONTLINE POWER. ADVANCING REPAIR.

At Taproot Earth, our impact is measured not only in numbers, but in relationships repaired, power shared, and frontline communities governing their futures.

Across regions and movements, we seed the conditions for Global Climate Reparations by resourcing frontline leadership, cultivating shared governance, and supporting community-led solutions rooted in accountability, repair, and collective abundance.

From investing in people, formations, and community-governed models that can be practiced, adapted, and replicated across contexts comes the power to build what comes next, led by those most impacted by climate harm.

“…We’re not going to be able to cure extractionism without eliminating capitalism.

We’re not going to be able to develop the relationships that we need without leading with love.”

GCR JUBILEE PARTICIPANT

FROM ROME, ITALY

“[This] is about capitalizing on momentum and showing up for each other.

[It’s] meant to make the collective stronger, more functional, and transparent.”

TAPROOT NOIRE MEMBER

FROM ETHIOPIA

“This joining is so important because we’re all going to be affected by all the chaos that’s going to be coming…

It’s very important that we stay together and keep a strong bond to face what’s ahead.”

GS2A PARTICIPANT

FROM MIAMI, FL

OUR impact at-a-glance

in 2024:

75

frontline leaders across the Gulf South, Appalachia, and the global Black diaspora received direct leadership investment through fellowships and training

400+

 partner organizations and community groups engaged through Taproot Earth convenings

1,000

community-accountable leaders shaped and advanced frontline solutions through assemblies and governance spaces

29

countries represented in Global Climate Reparations governance and strategy spaces

GLOBAL CLIMATE REPARATIONS IN PRACTICE

Our work to advance Global Climate Reparations moves beyond policy demands into lived, community-governed action. In 2024, through fellowships, governance assemblies, and global facilitation teams, we supported frontline leaders in defining repair on their own terms.

200+

frontline climate organizers co-created a working statement for Global Climate Reparations

13

Global Climate Reparations Fellows from nine countries advanced shared political analysis

5+

community-led climate finance models were advanced, interrogated and refined at COP 29

"…We don’t dismiss people just because their opinions differ from ours.

We figure out how we can get people to see our point of view and how we can also capture their point of views and or decisions.”

GCR JUBILEE PARTICIPANT

FROM ROME, ITALY

“We can’t rely on anyone.

We have to rely on our organizing, our connections, our ability to mobilize, our relationships.”

GCR JUBILEE PARTICIPANT

FROM COLOMBIA

“Coming together rekindles hope in an indescribable way.

Because your struggle is your voice and my skin is your skin.

We are a collective.”

GS2A MEMBER

FROM COLOMBIA

FRONTLINE-LED FORMATIONS BUILDING POWER.


Taproot Earth supports formations that strengthen collective leadership and shared strategy across regions and the global frontline. These networks expand the reach of frontline solutions, connect communities facing similar challenges, and cultivate governance models rooted in accountability, care, and liberation. Together, they help communities most impacted by the climate crisis define priorities, move resources, and advance repair on their own terms.

TAPROOT NOIRE

A global formation of climate organizers across the Black diaspora cultivating governance, stewardship, alignment and joy rooted in Black liberation. Learn more about their work and impact.

GULF SOUTH TO APPALACHIA

A regional formation across 16 states and one colonized territory building political power, shared strategy, and frontline governance. Learn more about their work and impact.

JUST TRANSITION LAWYERING NETWORK

Attorneys and legal workers supporting frontline movements to dismantle extractive systems and protect community-led solutions. Learn more about their work.

stand with the frontline.

Climate justice, action and repair all begin with collective choice and frontline leadership. Choose now with us. We need you at the table.

THE frontline leaders, MOVEMENTS AND COMMUNITIES WE SUPPORT ARE transforming shared analysis into action

Through convenings, fellowships, governance assemblies, and global partnerships, frontline communities most impacted by climate harm are shaping solutions rooted in care for land, water, and people. These moments reflect more than participation. They reveal a growing ecosystem of leadership, strategy, and collective power advancing climare repair and action.