💡 Your best ideas on climate impact

What would you do with $20 million dollars?

Last week, I put a simple question to our premium members.

If I gave you $20 million to mitigate the climate crisis, how would you spend it? The response was lively and fascinating, and I would encourage you to read it.

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While $20m might be a small sum for such a large problem, the members came up with wide-ranging ideas that broadly fell into four categories: government lobbying, initiatives focused on the Global South, innovation and entrepreneurship, and specific suggestions that defied categorisation.

🌍 GLOBAL SOUTH

Since $20m goes much further in parts of Africa than Europe, the Global South is the most exciting place to start. As Hannah Tucker pointed out, you could spend roughly $20k on regenerative agriculture programmes in 1,000 agricultural communities in Africa. “Not only would this draw vast amounts of carbon back into the ground, but it would also serve to bring th…