GLOBAL CLIMATE REPARATIONS

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Rebuilding what sustains us.
Repairing how resources move.

Across the world, frontline communities already know how to care for their lands, waters, and one another. Too often, they are asked to rebuild with resources they do not govern.

Today's climate finance concentrates decision-making far from the communities living with the greatest impacts. It often arrives as debt instead of repair, prioritizing financial systems over collective self determination.

The Reef Fund is building something different.

It is Global Climate Reparations in action, creating a community-governed approach where frontline communities decide how resources are received, stewarded, and moved toward climate solutions.

WHAT IS THE REEF FUND?

The Reef Fund embraces a new approach to climate finance rooted in repair over extraction.

Rather than asking communities to compete for resources or carry the burden of debt, the Reef Fund invests in the leadership, knowledge, and governance that already exist within frontline communities. It is designed to move resources through collective decision making, strengthen community self-determination, and serve as a replicable model for Global Climate Reparations.

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Together with a growing network of resourcing networks and community-governed funds, the Reef Fund contributes to a broader Reef Ecosystem working to transform how resources move around the world.

To learn more about the vision behind this reparative climate action work, explore The Future Is Made of Coral: Building an Economy of Liberation through Reparative Climate Finance, our March 2026 report outlining the ideas, principles, and possibilities shaping the Reef Fund and Ecosystem.

why a reef?

Like a coral reef, lasting systems are built through countless relationships.

No single organism creates a reef alone. Together, they form a living ecosystem that protects life, nurtures biodiversity, and creates the conditions for countless other forms of life to flourish.

The Reef Fund takes its name and inspiration from this living system.

It is one part of a broader Reef Ecosystem, an interconnected network of community-governed funds, resourcing networks, and frontline movements advancing Global Climate Reparations.

The Reef Fund exists to help:

RESTORE

ecosystems and local economies shaped by extraction

REPAIR

relationships between people, land, water and ecosystems that sustain life

EXPAND

what becomes possible when communities have the resources and autonomy they need to thrive

the reef ecosystem

The Reef Ecosystem is a living network advancing Global Climate Reparations through collective governance, shared learning, and aligned action.

The ecosystem brings together:

Community-governed funds

moving resources through repair, accountability, and collective stewardship

Frontline leaders and community members

co-designing how resources are governed, distributed, and sustained

Technical and financial partners

strengthening long-term infrastructure in service of community governance

Movement networks

building shared strategy across regions, struggles, and generations

Together, they make possible:

Community-led climate solutions rooted in local knowledge

Restoring relationships between people, land, and water

Communities able to remain, migrate, and return with dignity

Local economies rooted in repair, care, and shared prosperity

Growing Together

This work is being built in relationship, not in isolation.

NOW

Convening frontline leaders, practitioners, and partners across the globe
Co-designing governance, reparative standards, and resource pathways
Building shared vision across the Reef Fund and Reef Ecosystem

Developing pilot funds and community-governed models
Testing reparative investment and collective governance
Growing a connected ecosystem of aligned funds and resourcing networks

BY 2030

A fully operational, community-governed Reef Fund
A global Reef Ecosystem advancing Global Climate Reparations

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Whether you are a frontline leader, movement partner, funder, or practitioner, there is a role for you in shaping a different future for reparative climate finance. Join us as we build a living ecosystem where resources move with communities, not around them.

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WHAT IS THE REEF FUND?

A DIFFERENT WAY FORWARD

why a reef?

the reef ecosystem

THE GROWING CLIMATE CRISIS IS GLOBAL. the action and repair should be too.

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