How to Maximize Your Return on Investment in the Climate Space

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Germany was able to drive down the cost of solar panels by putting massive amounts of funding into mass producing these. That is actually the same strategy that's used by the French nuclear program. Here in the United States, we try one reactor design and then we try another reactor design and we never reach those economies of scale. So I feel like there's a great opportunity for some sort of hybrid investing philanthropy approach.

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What are "shed" and "cake" projects? And how can you avoid "shed" projects? What is the "jobs to be done" framework? What is the "theory of change" framework? How can people use statistics (or statistical intuition) in everyday life? How accurate are climate change models? How much certainty do scientists have about climate change outcomes? What are some promising strategies for mitigating and reversing climate change?

Cassandra Xia (@CassandraXia) is the creator of Adventures in Cognitive Biases and co-founder of the non-profit Work on Climate. She is fascinated by how human biases affect the actions we take as a society and how to hack human psychology to get the change that we want. She is previously affiliated with the MIT Media Lab, MIT CS department, and Google AI. More of Cassandra's work can be found at cassandraxia.com and workonclimate.org.

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