Our WOrk
Based in Geneva and working internationally, Aroha collaborates with public and private actors to turn our shared determination to avert climate chaos into practical action — with a particular focus on advancing the interests of countries and communities most exposed to its impacts.
WHAT WE DO
Policy Research and Advisory
We undertake policy research and analysis, mobilising data and evidence to examine climate policy challenges, inform decision-making, contribute to the development of new policy approaches and strengthen advocacy efforts together with partners.
As an official UN observer and together with partners, we monitor and engage with the constantly evolving international forums relavant to global environmental issues — including the UNFCCC, Human Rights Council and UN General Assembly, as well as international financial and development institutions — and provide operational and advisory expertise where it can contribute to fair and effective real-world outcomes.
Partnerships and institution-building
We believe in the power of joining forces. Much of our work involves developing initiatives jointly with partners across government, philanthropy, civil society and the private sector.
We advise and collaborate with partners to mobilize coalitions and, in some cases, help build the institutions themselves, several of which continue their work today, including with our
Campaigns and Communications
We design and run international campaigns that build understanding and momentum around specific climate issues, past examples of which included Payment Overdue, on the losses and damages facing climate-threatened and at-risk countries, and Fair Share Now, on equitable climate ambition.
We work with partners to translate research and policy priorities into communications that reach and inform the right audiences and, where useful, contribute to events, dialogues and other convening formats that can carry an issue forward.
HOW WE WORK
Aroha is deliberately small, independent and collaborative. We bring together the people and expertise a challenge requires, working alongside partners who bring the same commitment to the cause.
Depending on what a challenge demands, we work across diplomacy, project development and public engagement — moving beyond traditional institutional boundaries and testing new approaches where they serve the cause better than convention does.
Our independence allows us to contribute our own analysis and judgment, while collaboration keeps our work grounded in the knowledge, experience and priorities of those we work with.