We back people to protect rainforest and fight the climate crisis - join us. We back people to protect rainforest and fight the climate crisis. Cool Earth exists to back people, protect rainforest and fight the climate crisis. We transfer cash directly to Indigenous peoples and local communities living in rainforests in the form of a basic income or to fund projects that create choice, tackle the root causes of deforestation and protect the best carbon-storing technology that already exists: rainforest.