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Climate & environmentPreliminary editorial review

Climate Interactive (NVF-sponsored)

Climate Interactive identifies as a New Venture Fund project. It develops decision-support simulations and facilitator capacity; SDEverywhere is the inspected software toolkit, not a blanket license finding for En-ROADS, every model or underlying data.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 74–84/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: SDEverywhere supplies reusable testing, model-run comparison and deployment tooling for system-dynamics models; facilitator resources support use in institutional decisions.

Open-source evidence · license checked

  • SDEverywhere — MIT license file. Organization’s role: maintainer.
    The SDEverywhere repository was not archived when checked. It names Climate Interactive / New Venture Fund in the MIT grant alongside another copyright holder. The toolkit’s license does not automatically cover every climate model, Vensim/Stella tool, dataset, dependency, hosted service, model validity or security requirement. License-file snapshot: 116b2a5a1be090f38b70dc31b62dfae9439ba55f.

License checked 2026-10-27. This is not a security audit, proof of current support or effectiveness, or a promise of free hosting. A sponsor or steward is not necessarily the sole developer. Unchecked profiles are not evidence of closed code. No extra score points are added.

Humanity’s Checklist source match

Vision · Coordination — editorial, partial alignment.

Explicit policy scenarios can help groups explore possible futures, while shared facilitation supports coordinated decisions. This is a partial Vision/Coordination connection, not a validated forecast or verified checklist adoption.

Explicit checklist adoption: not verified. A mechanism match is not an affiliation, endorsement, evidence of effectiveness or a scoring bonus. Read the practice.

Focus classification: 2026-10-27. Based on the organization’s dated official sources below; earlier axis-review dates are unchanged.

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The proposed pathway

Make climate-policy scenarios and system-dynamics tools easier to use

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

3 / 4

Shared scenario tools and systems learning can change institutional decision processes rather than only communicate one climate fact.

Institutional reach

4 / 4

Decision-support tools can serve policymakers, educators and public-interest organizations across sectors; downstream policy effects were not independently established.

Durability

2 / 4

Reusable software and systems knowledge can persist, while model updates, facilitation, assumptions and policy implementation require ongoing support.

Scalability

4 / 4

Shared tooling can deploy interactive models on multiple platforms without rebuilding each interface, but validation and local decision processes remain costly.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

No current costed marginal project bottleneck, counterfactual model-development support or causal effect of an additional restricted gift was audited.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Interactive workshops and facilitator participation do not establish affected communities’ binding authority over model assumptions, project budgets or policy decisions.

Evidence and selection

Organization reported; current primary mechanism sources inspected; named repository and license file checked

Illustrative inclusion to examine this mechanism. Inclusion is not an external recommendation or a verified comparative ranking.

A testable next question

Do institutions using a defined Climate Interactive facilitation and simulation process make better independently evaluated climate decisions than comparable institutions, after accounting for model assumptions, prior preferences, facilitator effects and implementation?

Review confidence: Moderate for documented design; low for systemic attribution. Climate Interactive’s current NVF-sponsored climate decision-support and SDEverywhere work, not an independent incorporated charity, all New Venture Fund activity or Multisolving Institute’s separate current program.

What remains uncertain

Current privacy and giving pages identify Climate Interactive as a project of New Venture Fund, US 501(c)(3), EIN 20-5806345; the initiative is not counted as independently incorporated or as all NVF. This scope excludes Multisolving Institute’s separate current program and does not add their historical shared work together. The SDEverywhere MIT grant covers the named toolkit, not automatically En-ROADS/C-ROADS model files, data, proprietary modeling tools, dependencies or services. SDEverywhere supports a subset of Vensim/Stella formats. Scenario outputs depend on assumptions and are not forecasts, causal policy evaluations, security findings or proof of beneficial decisions.

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Axis review: 2026-10-27 · weighting method v0.2 (2026-10-26) · Method, conflicts and coverage