Because today is Giving Tuesday-the capstone of America’s ersatz Holy Week and the only square on the calendar devoted to philanthropy-I wanted to look at those recommendations. It emerged from beta and published new recommendations last month.
#Carbon offsets vs carbon credits how to#
Giving Green advises people on how to fight climate change with their donations in the most evidence-based way possible. So he founded Giving Green, to help people ford the swamp. “But not only could I not find it, a lot of the information that I could find was straight-up wrong.” “I thought I could find the information after a couple hours of Googling,” he told me last week. The green-nonprofit world is a thicket, contained in a morass, reachable only by slog.ĭaniel Stein, an economist who trained at the London School of Economics, learned this lesson about 18 months ago when he went looking for the best ways to maximize his climate giving. Not all of them approach climate change effectively, or even do what they claim to.
And for good reason: There are at least 461 nonprofits in the United States devoted to environmental causes, according to the evaluator Charity Navigator. Since I started this newsletter, this inquiry (or something like it) is among the most common questions I’ve received from readers. Let’s say you want to donate $25 to fighting climate change.
Sign up to get T he Weekly Planet, our guide to living through climate change, in your inbox. Every Tuesday morning, our lead climate reporter brings you the big ideas, expert analysis, and vital guidance that will help you flourish on a changing planet.
0 kommentar(er)
