Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering: Grantee Spotlight

The Giving Green Fund plans to award a grant to The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering (DSG) to build governance capacity and policy engagement, support the creation of civil-society consortia, and facilitate global collaboration on Solar Radiation Management (SRM), particularly in climate-vulnerable regions. DSG is a global nonprofit organization working towards just and inclusive deliberation for research on and the potential use of SRM.

This grant falls within our philanthropic strategy of solar radiation management (SRM). We recognize the significant uncertainties surrounding SRM and believe its deployment should be considered carefully and inclusively. The complexity and interconnectedness of Earth’s natural systems make it difficult to predict how SRM effects would manifest and to what extent we could mitigate them. Please see Giving Green’s deep dive report on SRM for more information about SRM, including risks and potential co-benefits, recommended sub-strategies, theory of change, funding need, and key uncertainties.

Last updated: October 2024

Giving Green believes that additional climate donations are likely to be most impactful when directed to our top nonprofits. For a number of reasons, we may choose to recommend grants to other organizations for work that we believe is at least as impactful as grants to our top recommendations. We are highlighting this grant to offer transparency to donors to the Giving Green Fund as well as to provide a resource for donors who are particularly interested in this impact strategy. This is a nonpartisan analysis (study or research) and is provided for educational purposes.