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How It Works
Giving Green's Mission
We make high-impact giving easier, for everyone.
Knowing we don’t have a minute or a dollar to waste, we provide a guide to help people identify the highest-impact ways that they can fight the climate crisis.
Scientific
Many nonprofits, corporations, and communities are working to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, but only some of the activities are based on the best available scientific evidence. Giving Green identifies effective projects, backed by solid physical and social science.
Actionable
We know the world is warming, but understanding how we can fight climate change with our own time and money is difficult in the face of an all-encompassing crisis. Giving Green makes effective climate action just a click away.
Transparent
As the urgency of the climate crisis intensifies, resources need to be focused on the best buys – and donors and volunteers need clear, objective facts about what works and what doesn’t. Giving Green publicly posts all of our research and deliberations.
THE PROBLEM
People and organizations want to combat the climate crisis but they do not know where to start; there is no actionable and evidence-backed guidance for using money and time to fight climate change.
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Many of the projects that claim to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are deeply flawed or ineffective. We need to focus our resources on what works.
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There is plenty of information on what policies or interventions could stem global warming, but nobody currently provides data-backed guidance on the most effective steps to take. We need an actionable guide that anyone can understand.
THE SOLUTION
We leverage the best available data and evidence to make dynamic recommendations on where people and organizations should invest their time and resources for fighting the climate crisis.
These recommendations are backed by thorough research, all publicly available. We are constantly expanding our recommendations into new categories, as a multi-pronged strategy is necessary to attack the climate crisis.
As part of our commitment to transparency and rigor, we also publish our own mistakes, and we actively encourage critique and dialogue around our work.
THE PLAN
Our research currently spans four areas of climate funding:
We encourage funders with flexibility to give to our top recommendations. These are high-risk, high-reward bets on systemic change that, if successful, will reshape the future. We provide recommendations for carbon offsets and removals for businesses who, in addition to reducing emissions in their own operations, are offsetting hard-to-abate emissions as part of a net-zero commitment.
For more detail on our research process, please see 2022 updates to Giving Green's approach and recommendations.