LINCGREEN CLIMATE CHANGE INITATIVE

What LINCGREEN CLIMATE CHANGE INITATIVE does

Lincgreen Climate Change Initiative is a Nigeria-based non-profit organization headquartered in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, that conducts climate advocacy, environmental research, and community empowerment work in the Niger Delta. Founded in 2024, the organization serves indigenous oil-producing communities affected by oil exploration, gas flaring, and flooding, alongside women, youth, and university students across Nigeria. Its programs include the annual Look Beyond Oil conference series, the Heartbeat documentary project (premiered at COP29 in Baku), flood impact assessment research using participatory rural appraisals and household surveys, the Climate Action Bootcamp, school and campus sensitization programs, and the Community Publishers storytelling platform. Operations are delivered by a six-person core team supplemented by regional coordinators across Nigeria's geopolitical zones.

The organization's revenue model is non-commercial, consisting of donations received through its website and in-kind volunteer contributions; no products or services are sold and no pricing tiers are disclosed. Distribution and audience reach are amplified through strategic partnerships — notably We Don't Have Time (international climate platform), MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People), the United Nations Development Programme (HB1349 women's political representation bill), BudgIT (climate finance accountability), the Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation, and the Rivers State Ministry of Environment. The technology stack is conventional: a WordPress-based content site (lincgreenprospects.org.ng) plus standard social media and a YouTube channel — there are no proprietary software products, APIs, or AI/ML systems disclosed. The first Look Beyond Oil conference was reported to attract between 100,000 and 300,000 online viewers alongside 200 in-person attendees, with the second edition held in June 2025.

The organization is led by Executive Director and co-founder Diolu Tobechukwu Prosper, supported by a small management team and an advisory board that includes Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui (former COP29 Chief Editor) and Professor Cecilia W. Yu (Artist of Year Scotland 2025, UNSDG Action Hub). Lincgreen is independent, with no parent company or institutional investor disclosed; financial backing appears to come from donations, volunteer labor, and partner-led event co-hosting arrangements rather than formalized grant rounds.

Name

LINCGREEN CLIMATE CHANGE INITATIVE

Legal name

Lincgreen Climate Change Initiative

Website

https://lincgreenprospects.org.ng

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Lincgreen Climate Change Initiative is a Port Harcourt-based non-profit conducting climate advocacy, environmental research, and community empowerment in Nigeria's Niger Delta through conferences, documentaries, school programs, and a community publishers platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Climate Advocacy and Environmental Justice

NAICS

Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (813312)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation (BPAGAGAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Climate Adaptation & Resilience Programs (BPADALAD), Climate Policy, Governance & NDC Support (BPADALAA), Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation & Resilience Programs (BPAIAMAD)

Keywords

• Climate advocacy services
• Environmental justice programs
• Community climate education
• Environmental impact assessments
• Climate documentary filmmaking

Headquarters

HQ city

Port Harcourt

HQ country

Nigeria

HQ region

Africa

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: The organization accepts donations through its website to support climate action programs, community empowerment initiatives, and environmental advocacy work in the Niger Delta.
2. Volunteer Contributions: Community volunteers contribute time and skills to programs, providing human resources for climate sensitization, community training, and advocacy campaigns.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Lincgreen Climate Change Initiative is a non-profit organization that delivers climate action and environmental justice programs in Nigeria's Niger Delta. It runs community sensitization, training bootcamps, environmental impact assessments, advocacy conferences (Look Beyond Oil), documentary productions (Heartbeat), and a community publishers platform to amplify grassroots voices on oil exploration, flooding, and energy transition.

Product overview

Lincgreen Climate Change Initiative operates as a climate advocacy and community empowerment organization rather than a software product company. The organization offers a portfolio of programs including the Look Beyond Oil Conference (annual climate and economic diversification conference), Climate Action Bootcamp (youth training program), Heartbeat Documentary (climate justice film), Flood Impact Assessment Research, MOSOP Training (digital media capacity building), Campus Invasion (student advocacy program), School Sensitization Programs, and Community Empowerment initiatives. The Community Publishers Platform serves as an online publishing hub for advocacy content. These programs collectively focus on climate action, environmental justice, community resilience, and sustainable development in Nigeria's Niger Delta region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Look Beyond Oil Conference Annual conference platform convening government officials, researchers, business leaders, students, and community activists to drive economic diversification beyond oil dependency in the Niger Delta and Africa.
• Climate Action Bootcamp Intensive three-day training bootcamp for young climate action advocates providing knowledge, skills, and collaborative environment through brainstorming, workshops, and collaborative activities.
• Heartbeat Documentary Documentary film titled 'Heartbeat: A Story of Resilience' documenting flood impact on Niger Delta communities, produced for international climate platforms including COP29.
• Flood Impact Assessment Research Pre and post-flood impact assessment research and loss and damage evaluation in Isoko North and Isoko South Local Government Areas of Delta State.
• MOSOP Media and Storytelling Training Capacity-building training program for Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) members on digital media and storytelling techniques including photography, videography, social media management, and digital advocacy.
• Look Beyond Oil Campus Invasion Student-led advocacy and climate education initiative targeting university students to lead campaigns, propose local solutions, and advocate for land restoration and sustainable alternatives.
• Climate Change School Sensitization Program

Quantifiable outcome

• Look Beyond Oil conference reached 100,000+ online viewers and 200 in-person attendees
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core, secondary and minor.

• MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMOSOP is a key strategic partner for environmental justice advocacy in Ogoniland. Lincgreen has trained MOSOP team members on effective advocacy through media and storytelling, including photography, videography, and digital advocacy skills. The partnership focuses on Ken Saro-Wiwa's legacy of environmental activism and holding oil companies accountable.
• We Don't Have TimecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational climate tech platform that publishes Lincgreen's articles and documentaries. The Heartbeat documentary was featured on their platform and YouTube channel, amplifying Niger Delta climate stories to a global audience.
• Janikoba Life Touching FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-host of the Look Beyond Oil conference series. Founded by Dr. Obuzor Mezewo, the foundation partners on climate justice initiatives and community empowerment programs in the Niger Delta.
• BudgITsecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with for the Young Climate Convergence conference, providing data-driven accountability training. BudgIT conducted a masterclass on tracking government spending and monitoring climate finance using open-data platforms.
• Ken Saro-Wiwa FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partner in youth climate advocacy, with the Young Climate Convergence conference held at the Ken Saro-Wiwa Innovation Center in Port Harcourt.
• Rivers State Ministry of EnvironmentsecondaryGTM or Marketing PartnerGovernment ministry partner for the Look Beyond Oil conference, providing institutional support for environmental advocacy initiatives.
• Rooted RisingsecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerYouth-led climate organization that partnered on the Young Climate Convergence conference and Painting the Change initiative.
• Global Sustainable Development Network (GSDN)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational network of sustainable development organizations, collaborating on youth climate advocacy and environmental initiatives.
• Aspire Climate Vanguard (ACV)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerYouth climate organization that participated as a partnering organization in the Young Climate Convergence conference.
• Partners Initiative for Good Development (PIGD)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerDevelopment organization that partnered on the Young Climate Convergence conference for youth-led climate movements.
• Connected AdvocacysecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerHosted the Media-Community Dialogue on Renewable Energy Democracy in collaboration with Lincgreen, convening over 30 journalists and community leaders in Bayelsa State.
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborating on the HB1349 Reserved Seats for Women Bill advocacy, working with a Strategic Working Committee of over 41 individuals to design and implement strategic advocacy roadmap for women's political representation.
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Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Environmental Rights Action / Friends of the Earth Nigeria: Nigeria's leading environmental rights NGO and a founder member of Friends of the Earth International. Larger, broader, and more established than Lincgreen, with overlapping focus on extractive industry impacts and climate justice in the Niger Delta.
• Amnesty International Nigeria: Large international human rights organization with Nigeria operations covering environmental rights and Shell oil spill litigation. Comparable on human-rights-and-environment intersection in the Niger Delta, but at materially larger scale.
• African Climate Action Network: Continental coalition of African climate NGOs and civil society groups. Comparable as a peer platform/ecosystem where Lincgreen could participate, though it operates at a much broader scale than Lincgreen's individual programs.

Direct peers

• MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People): Long-established Ogoni environmental justice movement in the Niger Delta. Directly comparable as a community-led environmental advocacy organization focused on oil industry accountability in the same geographic and thematic niche.
• Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF): Nigerian environmental justice think-and-do tank focused on extractive industries, climate change, and food sovereignty. Closely comparable in mission, target audience (Niger Delta communities), and advocacy approach.
• Connected Advocacy: A direct program partner on the Media-Community Dialogue on Renewable Energy Democracy. Highly comparable as a media-and-advocacy organization operating in the same extractive-sector reform space in Nigeria.
• Stakeholder Democracy Network: International NGO working on extractive industry accountability and community rights in the Niger Delta. Directly comparable target beneficiaries, geography, and policy-advocacy model.

Emerging players

• We Don't Have Time: Global climate tech platform that is a strategic content-distribution partner for Lincgreen's Heartbeat documentary. Comparable as a climate-advocacy and content-distribution platform with overlapping audience of climate-conscious stakeholders.

Others

• Global Greengrants Fund: Environmental grantmaking organization that funds grassroots climate and environmental justice initiatives globally. Comparable through shared beneficiary ecosystem (small African climate NGOs) and funding-flow relevance.
• Heinrich Böll Foundation (Nigeria Office): German political foundation affiliated with the Greens that funds and runs climate-justice and gender programs in Nigeria. Comparable through shared funder-of-grassroots-climate-advocacy role and overlapping thematic priorities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutu.be/OaJO3FQ-nLw
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lincgreen-climate-change-initative

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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