The Foundation understands the importance of environmental issues in other countries, and the global nature of so many environmental and ecological problems. Global warming and the maintenance of biodiversity in so many countries, for instance, affect us all.

Many of the programs that we support are concerned with international issues. However, a number of our grantees are focused exclusively on international concerns, and some are based in other countries. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in Delhi, India was established in 1974 to deal with "the immense and acute problems that mankind is likely to be faced with in the years ahead...on account of the gradual depletion of the earth's finite resources...." The Foundation supports a capacity-building project in environmental resource management as a collaborative exercise between the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and TERI. The Yale/TERI collaborative program includes collaboration on curriculum development, faculty, student exchange and research.

The New York Botanical Garden provides global leadership in research on plant diversity, applying its findings toward developing solutions to some of humanity's most urgent needs. Support from the Foundation is enabling the organization to integrate biodiversity conservation with improved healthcare, with a current focus on the Pacific islands of Micronesia.

The Foundation provides assistance to the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, which gives grassroots public-interest lawyers around the world legal and scientific tools to protect the environment through law.

The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) uses its expertise in public international law to help protect human health and the global environment. Through its Climate Change Program, supported by the Foundation, CIEL strives to protect the earth’s climate system while promoting other environmental and social concerns, such as forest conservation, biodiversity protection, indigenous people and human rights.

EcoLogic Finance operates as a "green" loan fund, offering affordable financing to eco-enterprises located in environmentally sensitive areas of Latin America and the Caribbean. Targeting the rural credit market, EcoLogic Finance provides small-business loans to support productive activities that foster biodiversity conservation and grassroots economic development.

The Center for Environment, Economy and Society (CEES) at Columbia University produces analyses of specific conservation and development problems by supporting international and multidisciplinary working groups of conservation scientists, practitioners and others. With the support of the Foundation, CEES has been working with teams in Papua New Guinea and the Dominican Republic to define a strategy to simultaneously achieve strong economic growth and sustainable management of the country’s wealth of natural resources.

In addition to our major grants (listed on the left), we have also provided funding for a National Museum of Denmark program in Peru studying the environmental effects of changes in utilization on montane forest, and a University of Miami program on Environment and Development in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Our funds also support the Sustainable Sciences Institute (see the Health section of this website), which develops scientific research capacity in areas with pressing public health problems.