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Recent Environment Grants
2009-2010
Climate Change
Priority States and Regions
Connecticut
Center for Business and Environment at Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
$25,000
To support the Carbon Finance Speaker Series 2010: MegaWatts on Main Street for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Environment Northeast
Rockport, Maine
$175,000
To support ENE’s climate and energy work in Connecticut, the Northeast region and to take state and regional learning to the federal level.
New York Community Trust
New York, New York
$135,000
To support the One Region Funders Group, a funder collaborative created to support joint learning, outreach to philanthropic colleagues, and strategic grantmaking on transportation reform and planning issues in the Tri-State region of southwestern Connecticut, metropolitan New York, and northern New Jersey. For more information, click here.
Pennsylvania
Citzens for Pennsylvania’s Future
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
$50,000
To continue to support the portfolio of activities centered on reducing Pennsylvania’s contribution to climate change pollution.
State Federal Partnership
Georgetown Climate Center
Washington, DC
$500,000
To support the work of the Center to promote a strong partnership between the states and the federal government on climate change policies.
2008
Climate Change
Priority States and Regions
Connecticut
Bridgeport Regional Business Council
Bridgeport, Connecticut
$30,000
To assist the City of Bridgeport in developing a sustainability plan that encompasses transit oriented development.
Center for Business and Environment at Yale
New Haven, Connecticut
$35,000
To support the second academic year of the Carbon Finance Speaker series which will explore the drivers of deforestation and investigate how public, private and philanthropic sources of funds are engaging in land conservation for carbon credits as well as adaptation measures through ecosystems services including water issues and biodiversity protection.
Connecticut Clean Energy Fund
Rocky Hill, Connecticut
$75,000
To support the integration of the implementation process of the Connecticut Climate Change Action Plan into Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell’s OneThing marketing campaign and develop an on-line action multiplier which will calculate actual dollar, energy and climate savings for each action that an individual performs.
Southeast
Ceres
Boston, Massachusetts
$75,000
To support their work to assist the Florida State Treasury and multi-billion dollar Florida State pension fund to implement a multi-part climate action agenda and to continue to marshal the support of the Florida insurance commissioner for regulations requiring all US insurers to disclose climate risk.
The Climate Group
New York, New York
$55,000
To support their work to organize the business community around a climate change agenda as well as helping to achieve Florida Governor Charlie Crist’s Climate Change Action Plan.
Coastal Conservation League
Charleston, South Carolina
$75,000
To support their climate change initiatives on local and state levels in South Carolina.
State Federal Partnership
Center for Climate Strategies
Washington, D.C.
$150,000
To support the climate initiatives and state process in Florida and developing lessons learned from the state work that can be applied to the Federal discussion and decision making for action on climate disruption.
Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, D.C.
$500,000
To support the creation of the Georgetown Climate Center, which will promote cooperative federalism in climate policy, sustain state and local innovation and support an enduring state-federal partnership as they develop an integrated federal approach to climate change action.
Miller Center of Public Affairs
Charlottesville, Virginia
$45,000
To support the National Conference on Climate Governance in December 2008 to convene national scholars and policy practitioners to discuss the role of government in addressing the growing concerns of climate change.
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
Washington, D.C.
$50,000
To support a convening of the policy staff of the states selected to receive funding from the NGA Clean Energy States Grant Program to review best practices for implementation of energy reduction initiatives and action on climate change.
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
$40,000
To support the Yale 2008 Conference of Governors on Climate Change in April 2008 which recognized governors with global leadership on climate and provided these leaders with the opportunity to exchange ideas and envision a way forward for state, federal and international action on climate change.
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