The Pew Charitable Trusts
Current concerns[edit]
The Trusts' public policy areas include the environment, state policy, economic policy and health and human services.
Pew's environmental portfolio is designed to help meet what they view as one of the seminal challenges of our time: saving the natural environment and protecting the rich array of life it supports.
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The aim is to strengthen environmental policies and practices in ways that produce significant and measurable protection for terrestrial and marine systems worldwide. In doing so, Pew works to advance scientific understanding of the causes and consequences of environmental problems, design innovative policy solutions to these problems and mobilize public support for their implementation.
Efforts are focused on reducing the scope and severity of three major global environmental problems:
- Destruction of the world's oceans, with a particular emphasis on marine fisheries.
- The loss of large wilderness ecosystems that contain a great part of the world's remaining biodiversity.
- Changes to the Earth's physical and biological systems linked to the buildup of greenhouse gases that are altering the world's climate.
The Trusts also funds the
Pew Research Center, the third-largest
think tank in Washington, D.C., after the
Brookings Institution and the
Center for American Progress.