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Cool Earth

We back people to protect rainforest and fight the climate crisis.

About Cool Earth


Tags: Climate change & sustainability Environmental & Climate Causes Conservation & biodiversity

Cool Earth exists because right now, the world is in a climate crisis.

The most effective way to fight back is to protect the best carbon-storing technology that already exists: rainforest.

And the best way to do that? Back, support, and listen to the people living there.

Indigenous peoples and local communities have lived in balance with rainforest for thousands of years and are the real rainforest experts.

They are people who face extreme injustice whilst living on the front line of the climate crisis.

We champion the relationship between people, rainforest and climate.
Cool Earth exists to give cash direct to rainforest communities, to fund projects that create choice, tackle the root causes of deforestation and protect vital carbon sinks.

This is our mission. To back people, to protect the rainforest and fight the climate crisis.

Your Impact

Currently, Cool Earth and our partner organisations support over 30,000 people across Peru, Papua New Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and Cameroon, protecting over 280,000 hectares of forest that store over 242 million tonnes of carbon combined.

Research, including by Cool Earth, finds that forest loss is reduced on land managed by Indigenous Peoples compared to surrounding unmanaged areas. For example between 2011 and 2021 forest loss rates in Cool Earth Partnerships were up to 82% lower forest loss than those in the surrounding areas.