Opportunity Green: Top Climate Nonprofit Spotlight

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Opportunity Green is one of the top climate nonprofits selected by Giving Green in 2024. We previously recommended Opportunity Green in 2023.

Aviation and maritime shipping are challenging sectors to decarbonize and have been historically overlooked by philanthropic efforts. Reducing these sectors’ emissions will require targeted regulation and policy promoting clean, alternative fuels, as well as industry commitment to purchasing these fuels and transitioning existing fleets. Opportunity Green tackles these interventions through a diversified approach leveraging industry coalitions, policy, and law. The organization also seeks to identify where gaps exist in law and regulation more broadly, and how to address these gaps to accelerate decarbonization in other sectors, including buildings, steel, and agriculture. We have not assessed this broader work and focused our recommendation on Opportunity Green’s aviation and maritime shipping efforts.

Opportunity Green is a young organization and could benefit from additional funding to open an office in Brussels, Belgium to more closely work on EU legislation and launch legal action, build staffing capacity across its programs, develop emerging workstreams in new areas such as buildings, steel, and agriculture, and add senior lawyers to advise on strategy. We are especially excited about Opportunity Green’s efforts to elevate climate-vulnerable countries in policy discussions, as we think this could improve the inclusivity of the process and the ambition level of policies.

For more information, see our deep dive on Opportunity Green, a summary below, and our broader report on decarbonizing aviation and maritime shipping.

Last updated in November 2024.