River Cleanup
Global river cleanup initiative with 200,000+ volunteers across 96 countries, collecting over 3.4 million kg of waste to achieve plastic-free rivers through decentralized cleanups and awareness programs.User Reviews
R1
Reviewed on 22 Apr 2024 03:48 PM
Projects must be at least 3 months old. We use Twitter, web domain registration date, and other public info to determine this. Newer projects should establish themselves and submit to the next round.
A Project/Organization may only submit one project to the round.
The Grant must be primarily focused on climate solutions (the group may do other work but the grant proposal should be directly related to climate solutions). The proposal should explicitly outline how this project will help reduce GHGs or is an important core infrastructure for web3 climate solutions. For each type of climate solution project, including data and specific measurement plans will enhance your application.Your project should be part of one of these categories of Climate Solutions that CCN has identified:
- Renewable Energy
- Oracles & dMRV
- Carbon Accounting
- Climate Activism/Education
- Nature-Based Solutions
- Ocean-Based Solutions
- Climate Adaptation/Climate Resilience
- Supply Chain solutions
- Built Environment/Transportation
Grantees who received funding in a previous round(s) must provide a new update on their progress and impact. You can also include the challenges you've faced. This will ensure accountability to supporters and also help encourage contributors by showing what you’ve been accomplishing.
- You can use our newly published Climate Solutions Metrics Garden for inspiration and guidance on ways to measure your project’s impact.
- We encourage grantees to mint [Hypercerts](https://hypercerts.org/) impact claims with a description of your projects impact goals.
- We also encourage grantee to register their project on [Karma GAP](https://gap.karmahq.xyz/) and add milestones for your near term goals.
- Priority review will be given to grantees who utilize these tools.
All returning grantees are expected to update their proposal, in addition to project updates the proposal should include lessons learned from previous work and how they will use the additional funding from the upcoming round. The updated proposal must indicate how additional funding will help the project meet its upcoming goals, and include a project roadmap of the next year for the project overall.
All projects are required to be within the **“realm of viability”,** meaning ****they should be realistically achievable within the given conditions and resources and by the people submitting the project.
Projects are expected to be practical and capable of succeeding based on current circumstances, knowledge and technology.
- Even if a project is early, it must still seem credible to the average person with an understanding of web3 technology and climate solutions. Including information about the team's expertise, qualifications and skills will help us review your grant.
- Grantee founders must genuinely intend to build the project, and the project must not broadly be considered an impossibility.
Grantees can be eliminated from consideration in the round if they are found to be encouraging or enabling Sybil attacks or other forms of malicious manipulation of the grants platform or the Gitcoin community.
All Grantee must meet the Gitcoin General Eligibility Critertia: https://gitcoin.notion.site/Gitcoin-General-Elgibility-Criteria-0d28526cf6f04d6aa4aeba8dc1192afa?pvs=4
Two Eligibility Criteria cannot verify from the application we have received. Please next time include a roadmap of the project for the next quarters and what you have done since the last Climate Solutions round.
Project is real and very active, no doubt on that.
On impact and metrics, see the other reviewer's comment
R2
Reviewed on 22 Apr 2024 04:42 AM
Projects must be at least 3 months old. We use Twitter, web domain registration date, and other public info to determine this. Newer projects should establish themselves and submit to the next round.
A Project/Organization may only submit one project to the round.
The Grant must be primarily focused on climate solutions (the group may do other work but the grant proposal should be directly related to climate solutions). The proposal should explicitly outline how this project will help reduce GHGs or is an important core infrastructure for web3 climate solutions. For each type of climate solution project, including data and specific measurement plans will enhance your application.Your project should be part of one of these categories of Climate Solutions that CCN has identified:
- Renewable Energy
- Oracles & dMRV
- Carbon Accounting
- Climate Activism/Education
- Nature-Based Solutions
- Ocean-Based Solutions
- Climate Adaptation/Climate Resilience
- Supply Chain solutions
- Built Environment/Transportation
Grantees who received funding in a previous round(s) must provide a new update on their progress and impact. You can also include the challenges you've faced. This will ensure accountability to supporters and also help encourage contributors by showing what you’ve been accomplishing.
- You can use our newly published Climate Solutions Metrics Garden for inspiration and guidance on ways to measure your project’s impact.
- We encourage grantees to mint [Hypercerts](https://hypercerts.org/) impact claims with a description of your projects impact goals.
- We also encourage grantee to register their project on [Karma GAP](https://gap.karmahq.xyz/) and add milestones for your near term goals.
- Priority review will be given to grantees who utilize these tools.
All returning grantees are expected to update their proposal, in addition to project updates the proposal should include lessons learned from previous work and how they will use the additional funding from the upcoming round. The updated proposal must indicate how additional funding will help the project meet its upcoming goals, and include a project roadmap of the next year for the project overall.
All projects are required to be within the **“realm of viability”,** meaning ****they should be realistically achievable within the given conditions and resources and by the people submitting the project.
Projects are expected to be practical and capable of succeeding based on current circumstances, knowledge and technology.
- Even if a project is early, it must still seem credible to the average person with an understanding of web3 technology and climate solutions. Including information about the team's expertise, qualifications and skills will help us review your grant.
- Grantee founders must genuinely intend to build the project, and the project must not broadly be considered an impossibility.
Grantees can be eliminated from consideration in the round if they are found to be encouraging or enabling Sybil attacks or other forms of malicious manipulation of the grants platform or the Gitcoin community.
All Grantee must meet the Gitcoin General Eligibility Critertia: https://gitcoin.notion.site/Gitcoin-General-Elgibility-Criteria-0d28526cf6f04d6aa4aeba8dc1192afa?pvs=4
River/ocean plastic clean up is extremely important but would like more clarification on the climate/emissions aspect of the plastic removal. Could you clarify how the statement "under a business-as-usual scenario, plastics could emit 19% of the global greenhouse gas emissions allowed under a 1.5°C scenario by 2040" relates to this project and grant? Given that this project focuses on cleaning up plastics in rivers (rather than stopping the use or manufacturing of plastics) and therefore primarily addresses emissions during the end-of-life cycle stage (approximately 30% of emissions from plastics are related to disposal and waste removal), and considering that extraction, processing, and manufacturing contribute the remaining 70% of emissions, this project would only impact around 5.7% of emissions under the described BAU scenario depending on how the removed plastics will be disposed of after extraction from the rivers. Wondering how they are being disposed of and how you are dealing with the emissions. Thanks.
AI Review
A1
Reviewed on 19 Apr 2024 05:00 PM
Projects must be at least 3 months old. We use Twitter, web domain registration date, and other public info to determine this. Newer projects should establish themselves and submit to the next round.
The River Cleanup project provides evidence of being active since 2019, well exceeding the 3-month minimum requirement.
A Project/Organization may only submit one project to the round.
The evaluation did not provide details on whether River Cleanup has submitted more than one project to the round.
The Grant must be primarily focused on climate solutions (the group may do other work but the grant proposal should be directly related to climate solutions). The proposal should explicitly outline how this project will help reduce GHGs or is an important core infrastructure for web3 climate solutions. For each type of climate solution project, including data and specific measurement plans will enhance your application.Your project should be part of one of these categories of Climate Solutions that CCN has identified: - Renewable Energy - Oracles & dMRV - Carbon Accounting - Climate Activism/Education - Nature-Based Solutions - Ocean-Based Solutions - Climate Adaptation/Climate Resilience - Supply Chain solutions - Built Environment/Transportation
The River Cleanup project clearly focuses on a mix of nature-based solutions, such as removing waste from rivers, and climate activism/education by raising awareness and engaging local communities. These efforts directly contribute to reducing pollution and indirectly reduce greenhouse gases associated with waste decomposition and provide ancillary benefits to climate resiliency.
Grantees who received funding in a previous round(s) must provide a new update on their progress and impact. You can also include the challenges you've faced. This will ensure accountability to supporters and also help encourage contributors by showing what you’ve been accomplishing. - You can use our newly published Climate Solutions Metrics Garden for inspiration and guidance on ways to measure your project’s impact. - We encourage grantees to mint Hypercerts impact claims with a description of your projects impact goals. - We also encourage grantee to register their project on Karma GAP and add milestones for your near term goals. - Priority review will be given to grantees who utilize these tools.
The project information does not specify whether River Cleanup has received previous funding nor if they have provided required updates on progress or utilized suggested tools for measuring impacts.
All returning grantees are expected to update their proposal, in addition to project updates the proposal should include lessons learned from previous work and how they will use the additional funding from the upcoming round. The updated proposal must indicate how additional funding will help the project meet its upcoming goals, and include a project roadmap of the next year for the project overall.
The submission does not include specific information about previous grants, lessons learned, or detailed usage of additional funding for future goals, thereby making it unclear whether these conditions are met.
All projects are required to be within the **“realm of viability”,** meaning ****they should be realistically achievable within the given conditions and resources and by the people submitting the project. Projects are expected to be practical and capable of succeeding based on current circumstances, knowledge and technology. - Even if a project is early, it must still seem credible to the average person with an understanding of web3 technology and climate solutions. Including information about the team's expertise, qualifications and skills will help us review your grant. - Grantee founders must genuinely intend to build the project, and the project must not broadly be considered an impossibility.
River Cleanup demonstrates a viable and practical approach to river cleaning initiatives and shows evidence of genuine intentions and previous impactful results. The project aligns with current capabilities in environmental cleanup and community engagement.
Grantees can be eliminated from consideration in the round if they are found to be encouraging or enabling Sybil attacks or other forms of malicious manipulation of the grants platform or the Gitcoin community.
There is no indication that the River Cleanup project has been involved in Sybil attacks or malicious activities; therefore, they remain eligible for consideration.
All Grantee must meet the Gitcoin General Eligibility Critertia: https://gitcoin.notion.site/Gitcoin-General-Elgibility-Criteria-0d28526cf6f04d6aa4aeba8dc1192afa?pvs=4
Based on the provided project information, River Cleanup meets the described mission and values that align with Gitcoin's General Eligibility Criteria of fostering open-source development, community engagement, and impact-driven initiatives.