thank you for the effort updated information on effective climate charities is a great and valuable thing to me and probably many other EAs.
However, I had a look at the website and the report but I couldn’t really find the discussion of why you do not recommend Cool Earth (searched for the name Cool Earth and only found one unrelated mention). As a past donor to that charity it would be awesome to have a direct link to that information.
Additionally, without having read the report in detail, I think it would be a great addition if you wouldn’t exclusively focus on the selected recommendations but position them in context to the other options. That way I could more easily understand if I agree with your selection.
Anyhow, thank you for posting this and investing the time and effort to make this information accessible to a broader audience!
cheers, the page that mentions cool earth also discusses why we think project based deforestation approaches are unlikely to be the most cost-effective thing. We discuss this at length in the discussion of CfRN.
As for comparing to other charities, as we briefly mention, the main reasons we favour our two charities are that they have much stronger track records than the alternatives and plan to work on very high value areas. I agree that in retrospect there could probably have been more discussion of the relative merits, but the report is already very long. Having looked at the area for many months, I’d be fairly surprised if there were many better climate charities than the ones we recommend.
I will have a deeper look at it when I find the time! So the main take away from my previous comment could be that it may be useful to highlight the “surprises” in the executive summary for people who don’t have the time to engage in depth and maybe provide a stronger summary of your process for reaching your recommendation (e.g., have comparative metrics like we have for poverty/health related interventions). Or maybe that’s good content for a summarizing blog post?
Anyhow, thanks again for your effort to update the EA community on this topic :)
Dear Halstead,
thank you for the effort updated information on effective climate charities is a great and valuable thing to me and probably many other EAs.
However, I had a look at the website and the report but I couldn’t really find the discussion of why you do not recommend Cool Earth (searched for the name Cool Earth and only found one unrelated mention). As a past donor to that charity it would be awesome to have a direct link to that information.
Additionally, without having read the report in detail, I think it would be a great addition if you wouldn’t exclusively focus on the selected recommendations but position them in context to the other options. That way I could more easily understand if I agree with your selection.
Anyhow, thank you for posting this and investing the time and effort to make this information accessible to a broader audience!
Cheers, Alex
cheers, the page that mentions cool earth also discusses why we think project based deforestation approaches are unlikely to be the most cost-effective thing. We discuss this at length in the discussion of CfRN.
As for comparing to other charities, as we briefly mention, the main reasons we favour our two charities are that they have much stronger track records than the alternatives and plan to work on very high value areas. I agree that in retrospect there could probably have been more discussion of the relative merits, but the report is already very long. Having looked at the area for many months, I’d be fairly surprised if there were many better climate charities than the ones we recommend.
Thank you for your reply :)
I will have a deeper look at it when I find the time! So the main take away from my previous comment could be that it may be useful to highlight the “surprises” in the executive summary for people who don’t have the time to engage in depth and maybe provide a stronger summary of your process for reaching your recommendation (e.g., have comparative metrics like we have for poverty/health related interventions). Or maybe that’s good content for a summarizing blog post?
Anyhow, thanks again for your effort to update the EA community on this topic :)