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My sister is interested in environmental charities, a category which Givewell has no recommendations about. Does anyone know of any actually good ones?
What draws her to environmental charities? Concern for animals? Concern for humans? Fighting global warming with its likely negative effects on both?
Before GiveWell/whoever can make a recommendation they need to know what the person wants. The best environmental charity for preventing species extinction is going to be very different than the best one for preventing animal suffering.
Good point! When I asked her earlier she said she wanted to save the rainforest to stop global warming, but I don't think she's completely inflexible about this.
"she wanted to save the rainforest to stop global warming"
Katja Grace (of Meteuphoric) did some research for Giving What We Can looking into climate change charities. She wrote up her findings as a blog post.
Thank you, this is very useful!
/facepalm
The top rated givewell charity for climate change actually seems to do rainforest protection.
Do you have a link? I am not convinced that they have ever considered a climate change charity.
Oh, sorry I mistook the Give What We Can blogpost for Givewell.