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Stupid question, but if you had to start a charitable foundation with a climate change focus, what would your number one policy goal be to achieve?
Funding would only be between 250-500k/year.
For that kind of budget, if you're looking for an impact quick and going after a less explored area, clean cook stove tops.
A whole lot of the world is still burning peat, coal, and wood in basically open fires. Although such fires consistitute a tiny % of global energy generation, they contribute to 10~30% (depending on sources and definitions you use but the numbers are staggering basically no matter what sources you use) of global CO2/CO2e/Black Carbon emissions. I am almost literally talking about shipping gas BBQ grills to rural African communities and giving them propane tanks.
Micro-solar is tough with a lot of moving pieces and I personally know MUCH better funded entities that's been working to bring electricity/computer access via portable solar panels (10+ years ago, integrated computer/battery/satellite link/panel in giant suitcases) to rural Africa struggling to make things happen. To do anything worthwhile, you need some full time staff and a pretty substantial travel budget. The overhead alone will consume most if not all of your budget.
Honestly you guys are better off just dumping the 200k on a charity of your choosing or volunteering a year of your time to do some on the ground grunt work.
PS: you could also just run around and tell people to stop using their fireplaces and charcoal grills. (basically uncontrolled burn of carbon fuels with no carbon capture whatsoever) Chances are that will do more to help the environment than trying to get something done with 250-500k on your own.
Last edited by grizy; 08-10-2018 at 05:32 PM.