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Connect your company with the world’s most impactful climate philanthropy.

WHY?

Charitable giving has a vital role to play in tackling climate change. But less than 2% of global philanthropic giving goes to climate mitigation efforts.

By supporting these underfunded solutions, companies can deliver the meaningful climate action that employees and customers expect. They can fund the systemic solutions that even the best carbon offsets ignore.

How?

The Global Returns Portfolio is the first selection of effective and scalable philanthropic organisations tackling climate change.

Our ‘fund management’ approach to philanthropy means we embrace diversification, rigorous selection research and regular performance reporting. Our team of world-class climate scientists oversees the Portfolio’s selection and assessment.

Companies donate to the Global Returns Portfolio as a corporate social responsibility (CSR) action. The Global Returns Project (UK charity no. 1186683) runs the Portfolio. We charge no fees to participating businesses and take no deductions from donations to the Portfolio.

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Beyond carbon offsets

Even the best carbon offsets face fundamental limitations. Carbon offsets cannot enforce environmental law, defend marine life or produce data on deforestation. They cannot deliver hard-to-quantify or systemic climate solutions. They miss some of the most important activities that directly regenerate our planet.

Companies can choose to donate to the Global Returns Portfolio Portfolio as a complement to an annual purchase of carbon offsets, or as an alternative.

In your annual accounting of emissions, you can use an objective price as set by the regulated carbon credit market as a guide for determining an annual contribution to the Global Returns Portfolio.

Testimonial: an alternative to offsets

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Underpinning our approach is our principle that we would rather be part of a fundamental solution to the climate crisis than just offset our ongoing activity […] We are interested in constructing an authentic, tailored and innovative solution to the problem rather than just following the herd or ticking a box.

Anonymous UK Fund Manager

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The Global Returns Portfolio allows business to support a selection of varied projects with proven results. The six-monthly impact reports have been a valuable summary for our supporters of the Portfolio.

Tom Ansell

Head of Product, Zellar

Alexa Capital donates to the Global Returns Portfolio as a corporate social responsibility (CSR) action.

The UK architecture firm Allies and Morrison contributes to the Global Returns Portfolio as a complement to their purchase of carbon offsets.

A UK investment fund manager contributes annually to the Global Returns Portfolio as an alternative to purchasing carbon offsets.

Zellar is a sustainability platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Zellar offers the Global Returns Portfolio as a complement or alternative to carbon offsetting.