You may describe your giving bucket under the banner of human rights, education, women’s health, animal rights, conservation, clean water, food waste, or resilient cities.  Only a handful of us in the TPW network, however, identify ourselves primarily as “climate funders.”

But take conservation, for example.  Healthy ecosystems are in peril because of climate change, and yet by investing in and protecting diverse flora and fauna, we contribute to the drawdown and sequestration of carbon from the atmosphere.  Interested in healthy eating?  The correlation between nutritious food and better health outcomes?  Better farming practices—silvopasturing, regenerative farming, composting—not only enrich our food but also reduce atmospheric CO2.

It will not be enough to “bend the emissions” curve to a shallower trajectory. Like a bathtub that is overflowing, we need to not only turn off the tap but to open the drain. “Drawdown” is an important, beautiful, and readable book that may become a go-to manual for gauging the climate impacts of our philanthropic choices.

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