While EA is not fully at the table yet, EcoResilience Initiative is an EA group trying to answer exactly those questions:
“What are the problems we’re trying to solve?” “What are the most neglected aspects of those problems?” and “What is the most cost-effective way to address those neglected areas?”
EcoResilience Initiative keeps getting requests from EA members that the EA movement provide some guidance on how to improve environmental strategies! So its more getting organized and working towards the goal than a total lack of desire from EA.
We (ERI) are a very small team, but we are looking to grow. We hope our work will provide the first steps towards influencing program managers, NGOs and the funding you talk about in this post.
As was posted in some other comments: there is also the new biodiversity recommendation from Giving Green coming in February, Effective Environmentalism’s community building work, and Conservation X Labs as an example of tactical conservation impact. Outside of EA there is Conservation Evidence, which is making research on effectiveness digestible. EDGE which is prioritizing global conservation with better a methodology. The Earth Biogenome Project is coordinating the genetic sequencing of all life on earth. And many others working on improving conservation with their specific approach, on in their specific corner of the world.
While EA is not fully at the table yet, EcoResilience Initiative is an EA group trying to answer exactly those questions:
So far we’re 1) maintaining a big list of biodiversity interventions (not just protecting land!), 2) investigating which of these are the most effective types of interventions, 3) identifying ways people can donate to projects working on those highly effective interventions, 4) developing conservation philosophy (ex: prioritizing coverage of the entire evolutionary tree and the long-term value of biodiversity (coming in a couple weeks)).
EcoResilience Initiative keeps getting requests from EA members that the EA movement provide some guidance on how to improve environmental strategies! So its more getting organized and working towards the goal than a total lack of desire from EA.
We (ERI) are a very small team, but we are looking to grow. We hope our work will provide the first steps towards influencing program managers, NGOs and the funding you talk about in this post.
As was posted in some other comments: there is also the new biodiversity recommendation from Giving Green coming in February, Effective Environmentalism’s community building work, and Conservation X Labs as an example of tactical conservation impact. Outside of EA there is Conservation Evidence, which is making research on effectiveness digestible. EDGE which is prioritizing global conservation with better a methodology. The Earth Biogenome Project is coordinating the genetic sequencing of all life on earth. And many others working on improving conservation with their specific approach, on in their specific corner of the world.