Defending Democracy and the Climate Movement

Environmental Grantmakers Association

2025 Federal Policy Briefing

Washington, DC

Antonia Juhasz Moderator. Plenary Session: Defending Democracy and the Climate Movement.

EGA’s 2025 Federal Policy Briefing is the premier opportunity for our membership to collectively chart a path forward for the sustained support of democracy. The Briefing creates space for meaningful, peer and partner solutions, sector- wide dialogue, and strategy to inform our responses and collective impact response. Together, we’ll survey our capacity for action through the lenses of water, food systems, transportation, and energy as tests of our commitment to climate for a just economy, and in balance with the social and technological challenges ahead.

The Federal Policy Briefing will examine the strengths and limits of federal policy, and explore how state and local governments are practiced at allocating resources to fill gaps. The program will offer discussions, strategic sessions, and real-time briefings. The speakers will offer hard-won analysis of the intersection between policy and practices of displacement, agricultural scarcity and regeneration and tensions over water access, license and use.  The sessions will amplify opportunities for durable equity and renewed advocacy in response to the climate crisis.

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