CFG among the first Belgian nonprofits recognised by Effectief Geven

BRUSSELS – Effectief Geven has named the Centre for Future Generations (CFG) one of its promising Belgian nonprofits, a category the Belgian giving advisory introduced this year.

The category sits alongside Effectief Geven’s top climate recommendations and covers Belgian organisations working on cost-effective responses to climate change that have recently received a substantial grant from one of the independent evaluators it relies on. CFG and the Institute for European Environmental Policy are the two organisations listed.

The listing follows a 2025 grant from Giving Green to CFG’s Climate Interventions programme. Giving Green placed the grant within its strategy on advancing the governance of solar radiation modification (SRM), a set of powerful but risky technologies that could rapidly cool the planet by reflecting a small portion of incoming sunlight back into space . The technology is advancing faster than its governance. There is currently no agreed multilateral framework to determine how decisions about SRM research, testing and potential deployment should be made, by whom, and under what conditions.

CFG’s Climate Interventions programme works on that gap: building a route towards structured and inclusive multilateral decision-making, and facilitating informed, structured dialogue grounded in science and governance expertise. Giving Green’s assessment pointed to CFG’s engagement with the European Union and its member states, the OECD and the UN, and noted that the field is young enough for early funding to shape it. The grant supports the programme’s general operations.

Thomas Lingard accepted the certificate at CFG’s Brussels office on Wednesday 2 September.

Effectief Geven is an independent advisory organisation that helps people and organisations in Belgium give in ways with the greatest demonstrable impact per euro. It draws its climate recommendations from the research of Founders Pledge and Giving Green.

CFG does not accept funding from corporations, governments or political parties, and works to keep its funding base diverse and, where possible, unrestricted. Our funding page sets out who supports the work, and our annual report covers what that support paid for.