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The world s top environmental organizations are still predominantly White, a new report finds CNN 1/19/2021 By Scottie Andrew, CNN © Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images While top environmental groups have added an average of six people of color to their staffs between 2017 and 2020, a new report finds that most of those groups staffs are predominantly White. The movement for a cleaner, greener world has grown increasingly popular as the climate crisis has worsened, and organizations such as Greenpeace and World Wildlife Fund, now household names, have raised millions to save species, cut down on pollution and slow the effects of climate change. But many environmental organizations are still predominantly staffed and led by White employees, a new report finds. And with few people of color on staff, racial disparities in who s impacted most by harmful environmental policies will continue, a leading environmental justice expert says.

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