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    <em>The Weekly Planet: </em>The Best Way to Donate to Fight Climate Change (Probably)

    These are the most effective carbon offsets and climate-advocacy groups, according to a new evidence-based group.
    by Robinson Meyer Dec 01, 2020 7 minutes
    Source: Matt Anderson / Getty

    Every Tuesday morning, our lead climate reporter brings you the big ideas, expert analysis, and vital guidance that will help you flourish on a changing planet. Sign up to get The Weekly Planet, our guide to living through climate change, in your inbox.

    Let’s say you want to donate $25 to fighting climate change. Where should your money go?

    Since I started this newsletter, this inquiry (or something like it) is among the most common questions I’ve received from readers. And for good reason: There are at least 461 nonprofits in the United States devoted to environmental causes, according to the evaluator Charity Navigator. Not all of them approach climate change effectively, or even do what they claim to. The green-nonprofit world is a thicket, contained in a morass, reachable only by slog.

    Daniel Stein, an economist who trained at the London School of Economics, learned this lesson about 18 months ago when he went looking for the best ways to maximize his climate giving. “I thought I could find the information after a couple hours of Googling,” he told me last week. “But not only could I not find

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