For most large climate funders, environmental protection and a liberal economic order are not only compatible but mutually reinforcing.

Edouard Morena
Edouard Morena is a lecturer in French politics and history at the University of London Institute in Paris. Over the past six years, he has been researching non-state actors’ involvement in international environmental and development processes—and in particular the role of philanthropic foundations. He is the author of The Price of Climate Action: Philanthropic Foundations in the International Climate Debate (Palgrave Pivot, 2016) and coeditor (with Stefan C. Aykut and Jean Foyer) of Globalising the Climate: COP21 and the Climatisation of Global Debates (Routledge, 2017).