The Climate Emergency Fund (CEF) is a Los Angeles based nonprofit organization that supports climate change activist groups involved in civil disobedience. It was founded in 2019 by filmmaker

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and

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heir

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Activities

The CEF often supports groups that use

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tactics, including

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and Climate Defiance. The CEF funded actions supporting the

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Funding

, Getty has donated $1 million to the fund. When he joined the board of directors in September 2022, film director Adam McKay pledged $4 million to the fund. The ''

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'' (a frequent publisher of climate-change denialism) reported in May 2023 that the CEF funded groups "deploying unorthodox and extremist methods across the world to protest fossil fuels."

Leadership

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is the executive director.

Board of directors

* Adam McKay, film director (September 2022–present) * Rose Abramoff, climate scientist (June 2023–present) *

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, actor (December 2023–present)

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