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Our independence from popular thinking and corporate and government influence keeps us grounded in reality and focused on change that can truly make a difference.

Support CATF’s work to catalyze the rapid development and deployment of low-carbon energy and other climate-protecting technologies through research and analysis, public advocacy leadership, private sector engagement.

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10 reasons why CATF is a good match for your charitable gift

CATF is 100% powered by philanthropic support from individuals, foundations, corporations, and collaborative funding groups from around the world. Thanks to the generosity of everyday people, we have the resources and talent to forge key pathways for transformation in climate action, including:

  1. Fighting coal in the U.S. and globally through a highly strategic and scalable campaign that has helped to retire more than one third of U.S. coal-fired power plant capacity over the last decade.
  2. Cutting methane emissions by harvesting new scientific evidence on the dangers of methane, launching the first global effort to manage methane, and developing the only methane mitigation planning digital platform to help countries estimate and reduce methane emissions from their oil and gas industries.
  3. Mainstreaming carbon capture and storage (CCS) as key technologies to control pollution from fossil fuels and decarbonize heavy emitting industries by informing and advocating for effective policies.
  4. Putting advanced nuclear energy back on the agenda by conducting research and analysis and developing the conditions for advancements in the industry.
  5. Amplifying zero-carbon fuels like hydrogen and ammonia as solutions for hard-to-electrify industries, including marine shipping, heavy-duty trucking, high-temperature industrial process heating, ironmaking, long-duration energy storage, and aviation.
  1. Initiating catalytic efforts to pioneer new clean energy solutions like superhot rock energy and fusion energy.
  2. Informing the U.S. climate agenda by playing a major role in designing and enacting the largest-ever funding initiatives for climate technology in U.S. history via the Inflation Reduction Act ($783 billion) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ($1.2 trillion).
  3. Disrupting “business-as-usual” in Europe by creating the only options-based and industry-forward climate policy team in Europe to ensure that pragmatism trumps ideology.
  4. Catalyzing a new vision for an energy-independent and prosperous Africa by supporting thought leadership, advancing solutions to energy poverty, and catalyzing climate innovation on the continent.
  5. Activating leadership in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by developing and advancing key industry research and policy design, and facilitating partnerships that seek to advance the rapid adoption of clean energy technologies.

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25 years of climate impact

At CATF, we build momentum for solutions based on scientific evidence, intellectual integrity, and pragmatism.

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CATF is one of two global organizations working on climate change recommended for funding by Founders Pledge based on their Climate Change Cause Area Report. Founders Pledge did extensive evaluation on our organization and came up with the valuation of a donation to CATF would avert a tonne of CO2e for $0.10-$1. More about their evaluation can be found in their paper, with CATF’s impact beginning on page 88.

CATF was listed as one of six most high-impact, cost-effective, evidence-based organizations to donate to by Vox.

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We're recognized as an effective climate organization.

CATF’s role in the environmental NGO ecosystem has often been to focus on sources of emissions that are neglected by other environmental NGOs, to conceive and design pragmatic campaigns to target those emissions, and to crowd in support from philanthropists and other larger environmental NGOs. CATF also produces high quality research, which is well regarded among the philanthropists, scientists, policy experts, and government bureaucrats that we have spoken to.

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Who are CATF’s donors?

CATF appreciates the support we receive from individual donors, foundations, and corporate foundations, which enable us to develop a decarbonized energy system and global carbon-free economy. CATF is committed to preserve its full independence and avoid any potential conflict of interest. Our donors’ contributions do not provide the ability to influence our mission or activities, and we do not accept funding from sources that could be construed as antithetical to our mission. CATF does not seek or accept funding from government sources or from any private corporations that sell energy or climate- or environmentally-related products or services as part of their core business.

To learn more about how to make an impact as a donor to CATF please contact giving@catf.us.