The Climate Coordination Network (CCN) is a team of 6 people from different countries who share a mission to help fund and support early stage climate projects.
The team has helped manage multiple Gitcoin climate rounds — and also many Web3 community rounds — and we are committed to the newly decentralized Climate Solutions Program.
This document outlines our Grant Review Process, a crucial step to ensuring that the funds we allocate are used effectively and contribute to addressing climate change. Our reviews are conducted by an experienced team of round operators from multiple regions who are committed to supporting impactful projects.
The Climate Coordination Team is moving towards increasingly utilizing impact metrics and measurement tools to help validate impact claims and to help grantees showcase real-world climate impact.
In order to provide more funds to impactful climate projects, the CCN team is trying something new for GG21. Here are the key changes:
Projects will be reviewed following a more detailed and specific review system compared to previous rounds. The scale used will go from 1 to 5. Each project will be reviewed by 2 reviewers.
Note that there are two gates. Each project must clear the 6 questions of the first gate in order to be eligible for a ranking. These questions reflect the minimum round eligibility criteria. Any project not clearing the first gate will be automatically rejected from the round.
Once the projects clear the first gate, then they will be given scores for each of the 7 project evaluation questions in the second gate. These scores will be averaged and then all projects will be ranked according to their average scores.
Only the top 70 projects of the ranked scores will be accepted in the GG21 Climate Solutions round. Projects receiving a ranking of 60-80 will receive a third reviewer before the top 70 project list is published and finalized.