GLOBAL CLIMATE REPARATIONS
Rebuilding what sustains us. Repairing how resources move.
Across the world, frontline communities are rebuilding after climate crises with resources they do not control.
Climate finance today is shaped by distance, debt, and decisions made far from the people most impacted.
It often arrives as loans, not repair. It prioritizes markets over communities. And too often, it leaves frontline communities navigating recovery without the resources or authority to shape it.
The question is not whether funding exists, but who governs it and what it makes possible.
Global Climate Reparations charts a different path. The Reef Fund begins to build it.
Today's climate finance moves through systems that extract, even in recovery. The Reef Fund shifts both how resources move and who decides.
Here's how it differs:
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What is the Reef Fund?
The Reef Fund is Global Climate Reparations in practice. Grounded in the vision shared and outlined in The Future Is Made of Coral, the Fund advances a frontline-led model for reparative climate finance where repair replaces extraction and communities most impacted by climate crises govern how resources move and what they make possible.
That means shifting decision-making power to frontline communities so they can steward and shape how resources are received, managed, distributed, and directed toward climate solutions rooted in collective care and self-determination.
The Reef Fund is not a single intervention.
It is part of a growing ecosystem shaped in relationship over time. Like coral forming a reef, this work connects to create something stronger than any one piece.
This work brings together:
Community-governed funds
that move resources with accountability and care
Movement networks
building alignment across regions and struggles
Technical and financial partners
supporting long-term infrastructure
Frontline leaders and community members
shaping how resources are defined, governed, and distributed
Together, this becomes a global structure for community-controlled climate finance.
Grounded in this approach, the Reef Fund supports:
This is not just about funding projects.
It is about building systems that can hold frontline communities through crises and beyond.
Coral reefs don’t grow endlessly.
They rebuild, repair, and renew. Over time, they form living structures that protect coastlines, sustain entire ecosystems, and regenerate after disruption.
The Reef Fund follows this same logic.
Like coral, it accumulates strength over time through collective stewardship.
It is designed to:
REBUILD
ecosystems and economies harmed by extraction
REPAIR
relationships between people, land, and resources
RENEW
what becomes possible when communities have what they need
How the Coral Takes Shape
This work is being built in relationship, not in isolation.
NOW
NEXT
BY 2030
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Across convenings, strategy sessions, and ongoing collaboration, frontline leaders are shaping what this becomes together. The Reef Fund is not a model being handed down. It is something being co-created through relationship, trust, and shared governance.
