Pacific Environment | Protecting People and the Planet

Who we are
Confronting our most urgent environmental issues

Our mission

Pacific Environment confronts our most urgent environmental issues by connecting local and global movements, catalyzing policy change, and inspiring action for the benefit of people and our planet. Together, we promote a healthy climate, reduce pollution and conserve biodiversity for an equitable and thriving future.

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The warnings from the UN are clear; we have no time to waste to reduce carbon pollution and save our warming planet.
Antonio Santos, Pacific Environment

Our values

Building power for systemic change

From grassroots to global, we partner with communities to build power for justice and systems change.

Evidence-based solutions for the planet

We catalyze change through people-powered advocacy and by grounding our work in science and traditional, Indigenous and local knowledge.

Collaborative relationships, coalition building and partnerships

We strive to build trusted relationships through coalitions and partnerships grounded in care, creativity and collaboration.

Making transformative, long-term impacts

We have the ambition, strategies and expertise to overcome significant challenges and make transformative, sustainable impacts.

We lead a coalition of environmental groups that successfully establishes new international laws to protect Arctic indigenous communities and wildlife from an anticipated exponential increase in ship traffic.
The grassroots groups we nurture show increasingly impressive wins against corporate polluters. In China, they now annually instigate over 200 successful actions against industries, leading to factory shut downs and clean ups.
Together with our partners around the Pacific Rim, we're pressuring the shipping industry and some of its biggest corporate clients to reduce carbon pollution from ocean-going vessels.

Healthy oceans
Thriving communities
The climate challenge

We equip grassroots leaders with funding and technical skills to mobilize local people to advocate clean air and water and safe food. (Photo: Pacific Environment/Partner)

Our partners lead conservation efforts in their local communities.

People shift power

At Pacific Environment, we believe that communities must determine their destinies and that people have a right to meaningfully participate in decisions that affect their lives, their livelihoods and the natural environment.

That’s why Pacific Environment helps build the global grassroots environmental movement.

We achieve this by providing direct financial support, technical and legal expertise, and the know-how to build activist networks.

We also fight for systemic changes that complement and can even transform these local efforts.

We seek policy reforms in international legal regimes that influence what happens locally throughout the world.

We win through forceful advocacy, strong coalition-building and grassroots pressure.

We give direct financial support: $7 million over the past 15 years.
We provide needed expertise on a range of matters: technical, policy, legal, financial and scientific.
We connect activists with each other and with international peers to counter isolation and promote shared learning and collective campaigning.