The Effective Environmentalism Initiative
About the initiative
Effective environmentalism is a research field and a practical community dedicated to tackling environmental problems as effectively as possible. The Effective Environmentalism Initiative, hosted by Effective Altruism Netherlands, encourages and enables people and organisations to do the most good they can to tackle environmental challenges like climate change, air pollution, and global biodiversity loss.
Goals
The Effective Environmentalism Initiative provides information and resources to people looking to contribute to environmental progress, maintains the effective environmentalism community, and informs other organisations about how to improve their contribution to environmental progress.
Areas of work
Build a Community
Seeding and supporting initiatives that grow the effective environmentalism movement
Connect People
Connecting people in the effective environmentalism community
Online Visibility
Creating and promoting online content about effective environmentalism
Learning Resources
Provide resources to learn more about effective environmentalism
Career Impact
Helping people build high-impact careers in climate and environment
Accessible Action
Provide easy on-ramps for people to increase their impact
Core ideas of effective environmentalism
Ultimately, we care about the well-being of others. Climate change and environmental degradation threatens human and animal well-being now and in the future. We want to solve environmental problems to provide a safe operating space for humanity.
There are many good-hearted initiatives to halt climate change and reduce pollution, but many ways are ineffective or even harmful. The effective environmentalism community focuses on finding the most effective ways to tackle global environmental issues.
This led to many ideas:
- It's critical to consider how many emissions, how much biodiversity loss, or how much pollution will be saved by an intervention.
- We should focus on interventions that are important, tractable, and neglected.
- It's important to take into account how climate action can benefit or harm global development, communities, and animal welfare.
- Green lifestyle choices can reduce your personal footprint, but don't matter as much as your career, donations, or activism.
Project team
Soem Zeijlmans
Project co-director
Ruben Dieleman
Project co-director