Climate Stewards

Climate Stewards is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1141108).

Climate Stewards is an international NGO and registered charity whose stated purposes include preventing poverty, conserving the environment, educating the public and advancing the Christian faith. It aims to show God's love for all creation, and it provides online tools and advice that help individuals and organisations measure and reduce their carbon footprint and offset what they cannot reduce. Income from offsetting funds partner projects in the majority world that mitigate climate change while bringing local benefits, and its annual giving was £117,134 in its latest annual report.

Priority Areas

Climate Stewards uses income from offsetting to support partner projects in the majority world that mitigate climate change and bring local benefits. It works with local organisations in Ghana, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania and Uganda, whose projects are initiated and designed by local organisations. The work includes tree growing, smokeless metal stoves, plastic recycling and school clubs, as well as carbon-removal and emissions-reduction projects. Projects combine carbon mitigation with benefits to health, family finances and the local environment; the framework also identifies livelihoods, health, biodiversity, gender equality and financial savings as possible benefits. Climate Stewards works with trusted local partners and provides ongoing advice and support as projects are designed and implemented, with monitoring and accountability built into the approach.

Themes

• Community carbon projects
• Tree growing
• Smokeless stoves
• Plastic recycling

Geographic Focus

Priority: Ghana; Kenya; Nepal; Tanzania; Uganda.

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or its website. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

What the charity says:

• Projects are initiated and designed by local organisations to deliver local benefits alongside carbon mitigation.
• Projects must demonstrate additionality: they would not have happened without funding.
• Community forestry projects are assessed for permanence, including how trees continue to grow or are replaced if felled.
• Projects are assessed for leakage: activity in one area should not cause negative effects elsewhere.
• Projects must also bring local benefits, which may include improvements to livelihoods, health, biodiversity, gender equality and financial savings.