Hi all, Liv here (REG co-founder). I’ve just joined the forum for the first time and don’t have enough karma to post in the main thread yet, but hopefully someone very well-versed in climate change intervention rankings will see this:
This list is being referenced by a potentially very high impact and well-intentioned individual I’m in conversation with, but it IMO it contains a number of surprises and omissions. Does anyone have a more EA-vetted ranking of interventions they could direct me to? Feel free to PM me, thanks.
Hi, a little late, but did you get an answer to this? I am not an expert but can direct this to people in EA London who can maybe help.
My very initial (non-expert) thinking was:
this looks like a very useful list of how to mitigate climate consequences through further investment in existing technologies.
this looks like a list written by a scientist not a policy maker. Where do diplomatic interventions such as “subsidise China to encourage them not to mine as much coal” etc fall on this list. I would expect subsidies to prevent coal mining are likely to be effective.
“atmospheric carbon capture” is not on the list. My understanding is that “atmospheric carbon capture” may be a necessity for allowing us to mitigate climate change in the long run (by controlling CO2 levels) whereas everything else on this list is useful in the medium-short run none of these technologies are necessary.
Hi all, Liv here (REG co-founder). I’ve just joined the forum for the first time and don’t have enough karma to post in the main thread yet, but hopefully someone very well-versed in climate change intervention rankings will see this:
I’m looking for feedback on the following prioritisation list http://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank
This list is being referenced by a potentially very high impact and well-intentioned individual I’m in conversation with, but it IMO it contains a number of surprises and omissions. Does anyone have a more EA-vetted ranking of interventions they could direct me to? Feel free to PM me, thanks.
Could also post to the effective environmentalism group on FB as well. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1509936222639432/
New piece by John Halstead: http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1qs/new_research_on_effective_climate_charities/
Hi, a little late, but did you get an answer to this? I am not an expert but can direct this to people in EA London who can maybe help.
My very initial (non-expert) thinking was:
this looks like a very useful list of how to mitigate climate consequences through further investment in existing technologies.
this looks like a list written by a scientist not a policy maker. Where do diplomatic interventions such as “subsidise China to encourage them not to mine as much coal” etc fall on this list. I would expect subsidies to prevent coal mining are likely to be effective.
“atmospheric carbon capture” is not on the list. My understanding is that “atmospheric carbon capture” may be a necessity for allowing us to mitigate climate change in the long run (by controlling CO2 levels) whereas everything else on this list is useful in the medium-short run none of these technologies are necessary.