Thank you for a valuable and learning-dense post! The What led us to forgo the original start-up approach? section, and your rationale for supporting local groups, were especially interesting.
Thank you for your encouragement, I appreciate it (and certainly not only me :)).
I have mixed feelings about leadership on climate issues, and prefer to leave the evaluation of that statement to others. I also suffer from an inside perspective, and I want to flag my uncertainty here.
What I know for sure is that climate change is a regular topic in some local groups, popular not least because it is a “low-barrier” cause in outreach. There is also a loose group within the community who are considering engaging with our Green Party (Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen). I have no record of whether these groups are using the resources you mentioned, however.
I would love to hear from the local groups about it here in the comments ;)
Thanks, Ekaterina! I shared a bit more about my “leadership on climate issues” description (which is, of course, relative to my North American context) above in response to Sebastian — and would reiterate my appreciation of your thoughtful initial post and for this additional context.
I’m also not sure if Germany is leading on climate issues but the work of John Halstead’s and Johannes Ackva (and also Hauke Hillebrandt through Let’s Fund) have been very valuable to the effective giving efforts through effektiv-spenden.org.
(I should clarify my informal statement about “leadership on climate issues.” Without getting into CDU/CSU vs. SPD vs. Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen, et al [or Macron vs. Merkel] debates, many climate advocates from the U.S. and the U.K. give:
Again this is one North American’s perspective on dynamics in Berlin and Brussels that may be a skewed perception of reality, but wanted to share the reasoning behind the comment!)
Thanks for also giving me the impetus to check out effektiv-spenden.org, and the Die besten Organisationen im Bereich Klimaschutz! section, for the first time.
Thank you for a valuable and learning-dense post! The What led us to forgo the original start-up approach? section, and your rationale for supporting local groups, were especially interesting.
Given Germany’s leadership on climate issues, have you found the growth in Effective Environmentalism resources (including climate research by Giving Green and the Founder’s Pledge team) to be assets in growing the German EA community? It seems John Halstead’s and Johannes Ackva’s thoughtful work might be a recruitment asset in the future. Good luck in 2021 and beyond!
Thank you for your encouragement, I appreciate it (and certainly not only me :)).
I have mixed feelings about leadership on climate issues, and prefer to leave the evaluation of that statement to others. I also suffer from an inside perspective, and I want to flag my uncertainty here.
What I know for sure is that climate change is a regular topic in some local groups, popular not least because it is a “low-barrier” cause in outreach. There is also a loose group within the community who are considering engaging with our Green Party (Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen). I have no record of whether these groups are using the resources you mentioned, however.
I would love to hear from the local groups about it here in the comments ;)
Thanks, Ekaterina! I shared a bit more about my “leadership on climate issues” description (which is, of course, relative to my North American context) above in response to Sebastian — and would reiterate my appreciation of your thoughtful initial post and for this additional context.
I’m also not sure if Germany is leading on climate issues but the work of John Halstead’s and Johannes Ackva (and also Hauke Hillebrandt through Let’s Fund) have been very valuable to the effective giving efforts through effektiv-spenden.org.
(I should clarify my informal statement about “leadership on climate issues.” Without getting into CDU/CSU vs. SPD vs. Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen, et al [or Macron vs. Merkel] debates, many climate advocates from the U.S. and the U.K. give:
— Germany credit for its efforts in making renewables widespread and affordable, both in Europe and beyond
— Merkel credit for her pressure on climate skeptics within the EU and elsewhere, which led many to consider her the de facto “leader of the free world” in 2017-2021
Again this is one North American’s perspective on dynamics in Berlin and Brussels that may be a skewed perception of reality, but wanted to share the reasoning behind the comment!)
Thanks for also giving me the impetus to check out effektiv-spenden.org, and the Die besten Organisationen im Bereich Klimaschutz! section, for the first time.