
A Global Call to Action
A Large-Scale Plan to Cool the Climate
Cooling the Climate is pioneering an accelerated plan to restore and protect the Amazon Rainforest, our planet’s most vital
land-based cooling and water regulation organ.
We Are At a Tipping Point
The Amazon plays a critical role in regulating regional and even global water cycles and temperatures, acting as a powerful cooling system for the planet.
But, deforestation of the rainforest is pushing us toward critical tipping points that require urgent and large-scale action.
Water Cycles
Reforestation
Global Warming
What’s Going On?
If the Amazon collapses, the loss of its water cycle will trigger devastating consequences for the region and planet. The rainforest’s ability to release vast amounts of water vapor regulates temperatures and drives global rainfall patterns. But without this crucial water cycle, temperatures will rise significantly, leading to rapid desertification across the region.
At the same time, the Amazon’s transformation from a carbon sink to a carbon source will further intensify global warming. Scientists estimate that the combined impact of lost water cycles and lost carbon storage will drive an additional 2.0–2.5°C rise in temperatures, pushing ecosystems and humanity toward catastrophic instability.
Urgent Action is Required
The Amazon is at a critical tipping point, but there is still time to act. Protecting the rainforest means halting deforestation, restoring degraded areas, and supporting sustainable practices that preserve its ecosystems.
Governments, businesses, and individuals must work together to prioritize conservation and enforce policies that prevent further destruction. Every effort counts—because saving the Amazon is not just about protecting a forest; it’s about securing a livable future for the planet and for generations to come. The time to act is now.
That’s where Cooling the Climate comes in.

Cooling the Climate
Our Plan to Address Global Warming
Cooling the Climate is a large-scale strategic plan that restores the Amazon rainforest ecosystems and helps stabilize the climate. By rethinking our relationship with nature and acting now, our plan will reverse climate chaos and build a future based on respect for the Earth. The plan begins by regenerating the Amazon rainforest, an ecosystem vital to our planet’s health.
Our Pilot Project
We can best address the threats to the Amazon rainforest by working with indigenous communities.
Our pilot project in Araribóia, Brazil, empowers the indigenous Guajajara people to regenerate their territory, which has been severely degraded by fire, logging, and land invasion. Supported by Indigenous leadership, cutting-edge technology, and innovative financing, our project not only restores the forest by planting 16 million trees on 8,000 hectares but lifts 15,000 people out of poverty through direct employment.
The Funding Model
Reforestation will generate global economic transformation.
Our digital finance model channels large-scale investments into the Amazon rainforest by leveraging innovative financial instruments and technology tools, a REDD+ framework, and community-driven ecosystem protection.
Our plan demonstrates how reforestation and climate action financing can generate environmental and economic transformation and produce a replicable model for deforested territories in the Global South next in line.
Support Us
We call on world leaders, corporate leaders, and philanthropists to commit resources to this urgent, large-scale project. With your support, we will make real progress in restoring the rainforests, Earth’s most essential natural cooling system.
We are collaborating with other local organizations in the Amazon rainforest, including….. Every visitor to this website can become an advocate for the project, bringing awareness of our work to others, contributing to our efforts financially, or advocating on behalf of the Amazon rainforest.
P A R T N E R S
Cooling the Climate is a Fiscally Sponsored project of Buckminster Fuller Institute

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‘’We live on a live planet that can respond to the changes we make, either by canceling the changes or by canceling us.”
— James E. Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia