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HOW WE WORK 🌍

Giving Green's mission is to combat the climate crisis by connecting donors and volunteers to organisations working to fight climate change. Here's how we do our work. 👇(1/8)

🔍 Our team researches and recommends organizations working to combat climate change in different ways. Right now, we focus on organizations working to shift US national-level climate policy, and carbon offsets. (2/8)

✅ For 2020, our priorities for the US national-level climate policy were 1) Activism and 2) Insider Policy Advocacy. You can read more about why we chose these as our priorities at givinggreen.earth/post/how-we-de… (3/8)

📘 To begin, we reviewed the academic literature on how these sectors shape US climate policy, and what best-practices for activist and advocacy organizations look like. You can check out our research findings at givinggreen.earth/policy-change (4/8)

🌊 Next, we conducted shallow-dives on many organizations. We then dug deeper into several, using literature, impact data, certifier notes, and interviews with experts and their teams. You can find our shallow and deep-dives at givinggreen.earth/policy-change (5/8)

👍 On the basis of our research, we decide whether or not to issue a recommendation. Our list of recommendations is non-exhaustive, and we continue to work on expanding the list through research on new organizations. Explore these recommendations at givinggreen.earth/recommendations (6/8)

🏭 We also review and recommend carbon offsets to reduce your #carbonfootprint. For people that require highly certain and immediate guarantees of reduced GHGs, offsets could be a good bet. You can find out more about our offset recommendations at givinggreen.earth/carbon-offsets (7/8)

👩‍🔬 All of our recommendations are SCIENTIFIC, TRANSPARENT and ACTIONABLE, guided by the principles of evidence-based decision-making. Our extensive research shows that these organizations are some of the best ways through which you can fight climate change.

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