LEFT BIAS
These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports, and omit information reporting that may damage liberal causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy. See all Left Bias sources.
- Overall, we rate the CLIMA Fund as left-biased based on its emphasis on social justice in addressing climate change. We also rate them as mostly factual in reporting due to their occasional use of factually mixed sources.
Detailed Report
Bias Rating: LEFT
Factual Reporting: MOSTLY FACTUAL
Country: USA
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Organization/Foundation
Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY
History
Clima Solutions, operating as the CLIMA Fund, is a coalition formed by the Global Greengrants Fund, Grassroots International, Thousand Currents, and Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism. It was created in response to climate change’s visible impacts and grassroots organizations’ effectiveness in promoting climate solutions. The fund aims to support global grassroots efforts in combating climate change, focusing on communities most affected by it. Lindley Mease serves as the CLIMA Fund’s director. The CLIMA Fund is based in San Francisco, California.
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Funded by / Ownership
The CLIMA Fund, sponsored by Thousand Currents, a 501(c)(3) organization, collects and distributes funds. Solomé Lemma is its Executive Director. CLIMA Fund aims to raise $20 million by 2026. It prefers unrestricted funding but accepts restricted funding above $50,000. Thousand Currents, the fiscal sponsor of CLIMA Fund, received a Four-Star rating from Charity Navigator.
Analysis / Bias
CLIMA Fund empowers communities affected by climate change and promotes climate justice from the grassroots. This approach underlines the belief that local communities hold the keys to practical and long-lasting solutions to the climate crisis. By prioritizing grassroots initiatives, the CLIMA Fund embodies a progressive stance on environmental activism, emphasizing equity, local empowerment, and sustainability in addressing climate challenges.
The CLIMA Fund seeks to amplify the impact of grassroots climate justice movements, ensuring a broad, inclusive, and effective response to the global climate crisis. We analyzed the CLIMA Fund’s “Soil to Sky” report, which advocates for grassroots-led solutions in the food and energy sectors to combat climate change, attributing climate change to extractivism, colonialism, and white supremacy, emphasizing systemic injustices and power imbalances. This perspective might be seen as simplifying the complex causes of climate change, focusing heavily on sociopolitical factors and possibly overlooking scientific, technological, and economic aspects. The narrative framing implies a critique of historical and structural inequalities, potentially indicating a perspective that prioritizes social justice in the discourse on climate change.
Further, the “Soil to Sky” report contains emotionally loaded phrases like “exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability,” “forced climate displacement,” “sacrifice zones,” and “sign a suicide pact.” These terms strongly critique systemic injustices and environmental impacts, emphasizing the severity and urgency of addressing climate change through a social justice lens. The report’s references include authoritative sources like the UN IPCC, CarbonBrief, the Center for Public Integrity, and the World Bank. It also cites factually mixed sources, such as Trumpet, and lesser-known sources, like grain.org.
Failed Fact Checks
- None in the Last 5 years
Overall, we rate the CLIMA Fund as left-biased based on its emphasis on social justice in addressing climate change. We also rate them as mostly factual in reporting due to their occasional use of factually mixed sources. (M. Huitsing 03/28/2024)
Source: https://climasolutions.org/
Last Updated on March 28, 2024 by Media Bias Fact Check
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