Centre for Future Generations: Grantee Spotlight (2025)

Grantee spotlight: Centre for Future Generations

The Giving Green Fund plans to award a grant to the Centre for Future Generations (CFG) for their work on the governance of climate interventions. CFG is a Brussels-based non-profit working on the responsible governance of new technologies.

CFG’s work falls within our philanthropic strategy of advancing solar radiation management (SRM) governance. We recognize the significant uncertainties surrounding SRM and believe its deployment should be considered carefully and inclusively. The complexity and interconnectedness of Earth’s natural systems make it difficult to predict how SRM effects would manifest and to what extent we could mitigate them. Please see Giving Green’s strategy report for more information, including potential risks and co-benefits, recommended sub-strategies, theory of change, funding need, and key uncertainties.

Last updated: October 2025

What is the Centre for Future Generations?

The Centre for Future Generations (CFG), founded in 2021 as the International Centre for Future Generations, is a Brussels-based “think-and-do” tank that helps decision-makers anticipate and govern rapid technological change. CFG anticipates the possible societal impacts of new technologies, informs society and policymakers about the potential and risks, and influences the design and delivery of policy interventions.

One of CFG’s six focus areas is on SRM – a potential yet risky climate intervention. Its climate intervention program works to strengthen international governance to ensure that future decisions about the use of SRM are transparent, equitable, and accountable. 

What are we funding, and how could it help address climate change?

We are funding CFG’s Climate Interventions program for general operational support. CFG plans to develop a pathway for structured and inclusive multilateralism on SRM and convene conversations that may help establish an agreed institutional home for SRM in the United Nations system. In addition, CFG plans to continue its engagement with the OECD, the Climate Vulnerable Forum, European governments, and non-profit organizations to identify institutional pathways and to ensure that perspectives of vulnerable countries and the Global South are included in the SRM debate.

CFG plans to use this grant to strengthen its team, organize events and meetings with relevant stakeholders, establish paid partnerships with influential organizations, support researchers with science communication, and organize a global conference on SRM research governance in Brussels in 2026.

We see our support for CFG as complementary to our support to The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering (DSG). CFG mainly works in the international policy arena and in Europe, while DSG builds capacity among civil society organizations for governance in climate-vulnerable regions.

Why do we think the Centre for Future Generations will use this funding well?

We have noticed promising signs of CFG advancing governance conversations in international organizations and governments, including the European Union and its member states, the Climate Vulnerable Forum, several United Nations agencies, and the OECD. We also recognize that CFG’s Climate Interventions program—like the overall SRM governance space—is still nascent and can benefit from catalytic funding.

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Giving Green believes that additional climate donations are likely to be most impactful when directed to our top nonprofits. For several reasons, we may choose to recommend grants to other organizations for work that we believe is at least as impactful as grants to our top recommendations. We are highlighting this grant to offer transparency to donors to the Giving Green Fund, as well as to provide a resource for donors who are particularly interested in this impact strategy. This is a nonpartisan analysis (study or research) and is provided for educational purposes.

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