Millions of dollars were allegedly spent by a “dark money” climate activist group on disruptive protests that blocked major thoroughfares and defaced famous artwork in cities all over the world last year.
Based on tax documents that Fox News Digital was able to obtain, it appears that the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF), which has received significant funding from Hollywood actors and producers since its founding in 2019, is responsible for a global criminal enterprise that engages in cultural vandalism and public thoroughfare disruption.
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“Climate Emergency Fund is proud to support some of the boldest, bravest climate activists in the world who are not just fighting but are winning,” Margaret Klein Salamon, CEF’s executive director, told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Throughout history, organized, passionate, and dedicated people have awakened the public’s conscience to injustice and achieved change that was once considered impossible.”
“That’s why the Climate Emergency Fund supports activist organizations that engage in non-violent protest and civil disobedience worldwide,” she said. “We are experiencing global catastrophic climate events, and they are accelerating – from the months-long summer heat waves in Europe to record-low levels of Antarctic sea ice to ocean temperatures that topped 100 degrees off the coast of Florida.”
The activist groups CEF funded last year “brought new life and vigor” to the climate fight, according to the organization’s tax filings. It added that more than 15,000 people had received training from its grantees, 47,000 people had attended their protests, and 25,000 media outlets worldwide had covered their events.
Approximately $4 million, or the majority of the CEF’s 2022 donations, went to British climate activists. It appears that the biggest beneficiary of CEF’s funding is Just Stop Oil, a British activist group that has frequently made headlines for obstructing traffic and upsetting public spaces throughout the UK.
Additionally, CEF gave $800,000 to other international groups that organized disruptive demonstrations in 2022, including Italy’s Ultima Generazione, Canada’s Save Old Growth, and France’s Dernière Rénovation. Additionally, it sent at least 50,000 euros to Letzte Generation, a German group of climate activists.
The extreme climate group Letzte Generation recently faced a major setback when a district court in Germany declared them to be a “criminal organization.” The group is well-known for using disruptive protest tactics to raise awareness of climate change issues. This decision is related to and groundbreaking.
“The criminal organization ‘Letzte Generation’ is primarily financed by the “Climate Emergency Fund” based in California, DiscloseTV reported. “One of the fund’s founders is the American philanthropist Aileen Getty.”
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In a complex note on its 2022 Transparency Report, the Letzke Generation refutes that the CEF “directly” funds these disruptive operations.
We don’t have any employees, and the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF) doesn’t give us any money directly. Funding from the CEF is provided to the change alliance’s “Non-profit educational work to support the last generation” initiative, which works with us to invest the funds in educational projects that support the alliance’s charitable goals, such as climate lectures. People are employed by the initiative for this reason as well.
The area isn’t displayed here because we don’t have any cash flows because these expenses are paid for directly through the initiative. However, it is roughly €50,000. The 41 individuals who worked for the Change Alliance on the project also need funding in order to maintain their ability to pay their rent while they voluntarily committed to climate education.
Despite popular belief, neither the Change Alliance initiative nor the Last Generation reimburse individuals for their street protests. That would also not be feasible because it is incompatible with the Wandelbündnis’s altruistic goals.
On the other hand, the Letzke Generation acknowledges the CEF connection more candidly on X.
“What role does the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF) play?” the post reads in German. “The CEF supports various climate protection projects worldwide from the @a22network in the costs of their non-profit educational work, such as lectures. The CEF gives money to the changing alliance. climateemergencyfund.org.”
The website of CEF states clearly, “We support the brave activists waking up the public to the climate emergency. We raise funds for and make grants to the disruptive nonviolent climate movement.”
“We provide a safe harbor for donors who want to fund disruptive activism. We accept anonymous donations,” the CEF website adds.
Compared to the $2.3 million it raised in 2021, CEF raised $6.1 million in 2022, a 165% increase. Due to the significant financial upsurge, the CEF transferred $5 million, or 274% more than the previous year, to left-wing protest groups.
Just Stop Oil is another criminal organization funded by the CEF.
Indigo Rumbelow, the organization’s public face, told The Guardian last year that “Just Stop Oil is a non-hierarchical coalition of organizers, scientists, lawyers, and former oil industry workers who operate in autonomous blocs with no formal leadership.” Roger Hallam is listed as the group’s “adviser” in a Time article and has been identified as a co-founder elsewhere. He claims that before becoming involved in activism, he was “an organic farmer in Wales.” Hallam also started the environmental advocacy group Extinction Rebellion.
Just Stop Oil receives funding from grants, individual donations, and the general public, as reported by the Guardian. The group said in a statement to Time that between March and August 2023, donations from the general public provided 51% of the organization’s funding, donations exceeding 20,000 British pounds provided 21%, green energy entrepreneur Dale Vince donated 16%, Hollywood filmmaker Adam McKay contributed 10%, and the U.S.-based Climate Emergency Fund provided 2%.
Two Just Stop Oil protestors were taken into custody in November after breaking the glass of a piece of artwork that was guarding the Rokeby Venus painting at the London National Gallery. According to police, roughly one hundred Just Stop Oil demonstrators were taken into custody following their slow march down Whitehall Road, as the BBC reported.
The global network of climate activists involved in illegal activities like vandalism and obstructing public transportation has not faced severe prosecution in the United States.
The Department of Justice would surely be filing racketeering charges against the activists and financiers if this were a right-wing plot to incite chaos in the public. It is reasonable for Americans to question why there is a legal double standard.
