Climate Resilience

Supporting communities to address the challenges and opportunities of climate change and contribute to a healthy planet.

The Aga Khan Foundation collaborates with communities to strengthen their resilience to climate change, so they not only survive but thrive. Our approach is founded on developing local understanding and ownership in combination with scientific knowledge and co-creating interventions for mitigation and adaptation, such as renewable energy, biodiversity promotion, sustainable water management, forest and mangrove regeneration and soil sequestration.

We are currently working with more than 600,000 farmers and helping them transition to regenerative farming and 12,000 local natural resource management institutions and each year plant millions of trees, restore 10,000s hectares of land and natural resources assets, and generate clean and reliable electricity for over 30,000 people.

It is our collective responsibility to be good stewards of the planet. At this critical moment, we must all nurture and invest in solutions that can repair our planet before it is too late.
Prince Rahim Aga Khan

The future is youth

To prepare the next generation for the climate challenges ahead, we are promoting climate education for children and young people.

Our Goals

Improved resilience towards climate change

By supporting community-led tree planting, restoring degraded land, enhancing regenerative farming techniques, and promoting green businesses.

Increased access to clean energy

By connecting communities with clean energy infrastructure and equipment.

Featured Initiatives

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GROW

Through our global microforest initiative, we are planting thousands of small, dense forests with communities to increase biodiversity, reduce carbon dioxide and create livelihoods.

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Indian Ocean Coastal Regeneration Initiative

Building climate resilient coastal communities across the Indian Ocean by developing alternative livelihoods and protecting and preserving mangrove forests.

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Teachers for the Planet

We are putting teachers at the heart of climate education reform. Teaching is the most important green job, on which all future green jobs depend.

Our impact in 2023

8.2 million Trees planted in plantations and through agroforestry initiatives
4 million Mangroves protected covering 442 hectares of coastal land
493,626 People using clean energy infrastructure and equipment, 49% of whom are female

Our Climate Resilience programmes address the following UN Sustainable Development Goals: