No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is climatepolicyinitiative.org legit or a scam?
Official site of established climate policy non-profit with 17-year-old domain, clean scans, and confirmed US registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as the homepage for Climate Policy Initiative, a non-profit that publishes research on climate finance and policy. Its domain was registered more than 17 years ago, far longer than typical scam sites survive. Security scans from our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned completely clean results. The evidence package confirms an active US non-profit registration with EIN 26-4129153 since 2009 and lists no scam complaints or negative reports. Visual analysis found no signs of cloning or impersonation. These factors together indicate a legitimate, long-running organization rather than any fraudulent operation.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for climatepolicyinitiative.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official website of Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), an independent non-profit research group and international climate policy organization based in San Francisco, California (Wikipedia).
- Registered US non-profit Climate Policy Initiative Inc with EIN 26-4129153, tax-exempt since July 2009 (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer).
- Publishes annual reports including Global Landscape of Climate Finance series (multiple editions on site and referenced elsewhere).
- Maintains active presence with LinkedIn company page, YouTube channel, X account, and multiple international offices.
- No scam, fraud, complaint, or negative review mentions found across targeted web searches including Reddit and scam-related terms.
- Glassdoor employee reviews rate the organization 4.0 out of 5 stars based on 36 reviews.
Non-profit organization Climate Policy Initiative Inc, EIN 26-4129153, tax-exempt since July 2009, headquartered in San Francisco, CA
Our research found the site belongs to Climate Policy Initiative, a registered US non-profit (EIN 26-4129153, tax-exempt since 2009). No scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative mentions appeared in targeted searches. The organization maintains active social channels and publishes recognized climate finance reports.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 8 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://climatepolicyinitiative.org/
- 2301https://climatepolicyinitiative.org/
- 3200https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on climatepolicyinitiative.org and not a lookalike like c-limatepolicyinitiative.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on climatepolicyinitiative.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- climatepolicyinitiative.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 85/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. climatepolicyinitiative.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 69 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- climatepolicyinitiative.org is 17.7 years old, registered on 10/3/2008 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report climatepolicyinitiative.org as clean.
- No. climatepolicyinitiative.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- climatepolicyinitiative.org resolves to an IP operated by WPEngine, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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