Objective: Integrate environmental objectives into macroeconomic management

Support NGO research, advocacy and outreach on indicators of progress toward sustainability

Support analysis and case study development, as well as policy advocacy and public outreach, on the use of official policy instruments for environmental protection

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) - $32,300

Bridge funding for IISD’s role as Secretariat of the Consultative Group on Sustainable Development Indicators (CGSDI).

Redefining Progress (RP) - $75,000

Support for RP to develop a strategic communications program around its four main program areas: advancing a critique of economic growth as an indicator of progress; facing nature’s limits to create true sustainability; promoting accurate pricing; and recognizing and building the value of common assets.

Objective: Strengthen the contribution of the international financial institutions (IFIs), such as the multilateral development banks and the International Monetary Fund, to sustainable development

Support policy analysis, advocacy, and outreach to bring about changes in policies, practices, and lending appropriate to sustainable development

Support policy analysis, information dissemination and coalition building to strengthen the capacity of developing countries to implement sustainable development policies and projects

Bank Information Center (BIC) - $30,000 over nine months

Support for the Central and Eastern European Bankwatch Network’s (CEE) activities around the Annual General Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Fall 2000 in Prague.

Bank Information Center (BIC) - $10,000 over two months

Support for BIC to enlist the aid of GLOBE USA on World Bank policy compliance issues. GLOBE USA will disseminate information on environmental and social issues as well as action alerts to their international membership.

Berne Declaration - $50,000 

Support for Berne Declaration to establish a long-term international NGO presence in Davos, Switzerland, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) - $75,000

Core support for CIEL in its role as a public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm founded to strengthen international and comparative environmental law and policy around the world. CIEL provides a full range of environmental legal services in both international and comparative national law, including: policy research and publication, advice and advocacy, education and training, and institution building.

Centro Internazionale Crocevia (Reform the World Bank Campaign) - $70,000 per year for up to two years

Continuing support for the Italian Reform the World Bank Campaign. Crocevia will continue to focus on the impact of World Bank-funded development infrastructure projects, such as dams and oil operations, as a way to expose the corporate interests behind public multilateral aid, the policy inconsistencies at the World Bank level, and the need for greater accountability in the international financial institutions.

CUSO/ Halifax Initiative - $34,000

Support for the Initiative to raise awareness of the relationship between public financing and the environment, poverty, and inequity through research, outreach, and policy-maker engagement to ensure high standards for export credit agencies domestically and internationally.

Environmental Defense - $46,000 

Support for Bioforum, an Indonesian NGO, to organize and host International NGOs Strategic Meeting on Export Credit, Finance and Insurance Agencies (ECAs) in May 2000 in Jakarta. An international campaign of NGOs has developed to research and expose environmentally and socially harmful ECA-backed projects and promote common environmental standards for all bilateral ECAs.

Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD) - $50,000

Support for FIELD to launch several new initiatives under its Programme on Trade, Investment and Sustainable Development (TISD), including the development of amicus curiae briefs as part of the WTO’s dispute settlement process; research on the role of corporations, multinationals, and international trade associations within the WTO dispute settlement process; and collaboration with governments and NGOs in the design of trade-related environmental measures to be implemented in conjunction with international treaties.

Friends of the Earth, International (FoEI) - $155,000

Core support ($75,000) for FoEI’s program on the international financial institutions, as well as program support to FoE country campaigns ($80,000) on reform of the export credit agencies in France, Sweden, The Netherlands and Japan.

Friends of the Earth US (FoE US) - $75,000 per year for up to two years

Support for “Making Public and Private Financial Institutions Work for Public Good,” a project of FoE’s International Program which focuses on the role of the World Bank, Export-Credit Agencies, and private capital in promoting beneficial environmental and social investments.

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Studies (IATP) - $50,000

Core support for IATP’s global decision making work around trade, agriculture, and the environment. IATP is dedicated to the promotion of resilient family farms, rural communities, and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.

Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) - $52,250 per year for up to two years

Support for Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN) in its work to reduce the investments by public institutions like the World Bank, US Ex-Im, and OPIC in coal, oil, and gas projects around the world, and to reorient these investments toward clean, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy for sustainable livelihoods.

Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES) - $75,000 

Support for the Sustainable Development and Aid Program’s activities, “Working to Establish Public Accountability in Multilateral Banks and Japan’s Official Development Assistance.”

The Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED) - $100,000 per year for up to two years

Support for ANPED to collect and disseminate information related to the policies guiding the activities of publicly supported Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) in an effort to reform these policies such that they better reflect environmental and social standards.

Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) - $75,000 

Support for TUAC’s developing capacity of trade unionists worldwide to better share information and focus action to combat corruption both locally and globally. One of the primary goals will be to expose how export credit agencies are underwriting this corruption.

Urgewald - $50,000 per year for up to two years

Support for Urgewald’s program, “Promoting the Reform of Germany’s Multilateral Aid and Export Credit Policies.”

World Resources Institute (WRI) - $116,000 over seven months

Support for the start-up phase of “An Initiative to Promote New Norms of Environmental Governance,” a project of WRI’s Institutions and Governance Program. The project, to be undertaken in partnership with organizations in Europe and in developing regions, would increase pressure on national governments to comply with commitments made at the 1992 Earth Summit on Rio to provide public access to information, decision-making, and justice in environmental matters.

Objective: Integrate environmental concerns into the decisions of private financial institutions and markets

Support further research, policy analysis and information dissemination of environmental impacts on private investment and business decisionmaking

Support targeted and broad-based advocacy, tools, and outreach on opportunities for improving the environmental performance of private investments and build demand for information on such opportunities within the mainstream financial services industry

UK Social Investment Forum (UKSIF) - $18,000 over six months

Support for UKSIF to develop a detailed proposal to the European Commission to fund the creation and initial operation of a European Forum to advance sustainable and socially responsible investment.

Weltwirtschaft, Oekologie & Entwicklung (WEED) - $50,000

Support for WEED’s Responsible Governance of Global Finance for Development, an initiative of their Private Sector Program, which aims to enhance the democratic control of the international financial institutions. WEED will work to build public awareness in Germany; strengthen NGO networking efforts internationally; and contribute to the decision-making process of the international financial institutions at both the domestic (in Germany) and international levels.

Objective: Strengthen global political and popular support for effective action to address climate change

Support advocacy, outreach and coalition-building to counter economic and scientific disinformation campaigns, and to mobilize new climate constituencies

Support policy analysis and advocacy on solutions to climate change

American Lands Alliance (ALA) - $40,000 over eight months

Support for ALA’s work with World Wildlife Fund on the issue of forests and climate change in the months leading up to the Conference of the Parties meeting at The Hague in late November 2000. “Forests, Climate Change, and Kyoto in the Year of COP6” includes both a grassroots activism campaign, as well as the publication of a science and economics report for use by policymakers.

Center for Clean Air Policy - $75,231 over three months

Support CCAP’s preparation for and participation at the Sixth Conference of the Parties in Then Hague. CCAP has worked specifically on the issues of penalties for non-compliance; prevention of “rogue” trading; Clean Development Mechanism governance; forestry and land-use issues; project eligibility; etc.

Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) - $7,500

Support for US Climate Action Network’s International Climate Action Network (CAN) Summit, which will bring together 30 CAN members from all regions of the world to strategize on the upcoming sixth Conference of the Parties (COP6). US-CAN is the US node of the Climate Action Network, a global network of environment and development NGOs working for equitable measures to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.

Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) - $50,000

Support for United States Climate Action Network (USCAN) for its international and domestic coordination activities. USCAN is the US node of the Climate Action Network, a global network of 285 environment and development NGOs working for equitable measures to limit human-induced climate change.

Center for Sustainable Development in the Americas (CSDA) - $50,000 over nine months

Support for “Building Developing Country Capacity for Negotiating An Equitable and Effective Climate Change Regime” designed to build Latin American and Caribbean negotiating skills in order to facilitate their productive participation in the international climate change negotiations.

Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) - $75,000

Continued support for The Sky Trust Initiative, a project of CFED's Common Assets Project. Sky Trust aims to link preservation of the natural environment with personal asset-building. Borrowing on the model of the successful Alaska Permanent Fund, the Common Assets Fund promotes the idea that common assets- air, water, minerals- would be better preserved if they were owned and managed by trusts whose beneficiaries are all current and future citizens.

National Environmental Trust (NET) - $100,000

Support for the international portion of NET’s global warming public education campaign, “Climate of Trust.” This project aims to document actions currently underway by developing countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, as well as bring together a meeting of high-level global warming treaty negotiators from developing countries.

Resources for the Future (RFF) - $70,101 over six months

Support for “Creating an International ‘Safety Valve’ as a Kyoto Compliance Tool,” in which RFF is examining whether it is possible to design an international safety valve that could alleviate, or at least reduce, current uncertainty and fear about the cost of compliance with the Kyoto Protocol.

World Resources Institute (WRI) - $134,000

Support for “Climate Change: Promoting and Financing Sustainable Development Through the Climate Treaty,” a project of WRI’s Climate, Energy, and Pollution Program. This work aims to reduce developing country contributions to climate change by advancing the formal participation of developing countries in the climate treaty; identifying policy approaches to unlock the negotiations of the Clean Development Mechanism; and exploring possible conflicts between the goals and implementation of the CDM and other trade and investment agreements.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) - $60,000

Support for WWF’s work with American Lands Alliance on the issue of forests and climate change in the months leading up to the Conference of the Parties meeting at The Hague in late November 2000. “Integrating Climate Change and Forest Conservation Policies” advocates for strengthened forest conservation under the Kyoto Protocol and will support activities to educate key audiences on the science behind the debate.

Objective: Mobilize market forces and supportive international arrangements to promote sustainable forestry

Support strategic planning, advocacy, coalition building and outreach on forest certification as well as substitution and demand reduction of wood products

Support policy analysis and advocacy on improved forestry programs in international institutions

Arts of Peace - $7,500

Support for Mainstream Media Project and their work to launch a public education campaign on sustainable forestry and ancient forest preservation.

Certified Forests Products Council (CFPC) - $80,000

Core support ($40,000) to CFPC to expand in size and scope the certified forest products value chain and to increase awareness, specification, and the use of certified forest products businesses in the private and public sectors through a strategic communications partnership ($40,000) with FSC-US and MCSR, a media and public relations firm.

Coastal Rainforest Coalition  (CRC) - $50,000

Support for CRC’s Markets Campaign, aimed at protecting ancient forests, in particular British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest, by redirecting US markets to more ecologically sound alternatives.

Development Center for Appropriate Technology (DCAT) - $75,000 per year for up to two years

Core support for DCAT to continue its innovative and integrated efforts to reduce the negative global impacts of buildings by addressing needed changes in building codes and standards.

FERN - $30,000 over four months

Support for FERN’s role in coordinating a rapid and coordinated NGO response to the possibility of mutual recognition among the various industry-backed timber certification initiatives.

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC-AC) - $75,000

Core support for FSC’s Secretariat as it undergoes a transition to new leadership and faces continuing challenges due to increased demand for and attention to FSC-accredited certification.

Forest Stewardship Council-U.S. (FSC-US) - $100,000 (second year of two-year grant)

The Forest Stewardship Council has catalyzed interest worldwide in promoting responsible forest management through certification.  This grant serves as Core Support for FSC-US to continue in its role as a key national initiative within the international FSC structure.  With WGF funds, FSC-US will complete the reconciliation of U.S. and Canadian FSC standards, implement a strategy that increases supply of available timber while ensuring the quality and integrity of the certification process, generate demand and narrow the gap between available supply and demand, and expedite the process of becoming an independent FSC national office.

Friends of the Earth (FoE) - $28,000 over three months

Support for the Global Forest Policy Project, a joint project of Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, and The Wilderness Society, to publish and distribute a global assessment of the extent to which governments have implemented the “Proposals for Action” of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Forests. The report will be publicly presented at the February 2000 meeting of the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests.

Pacific Environment and Resources Center (PERC) - $30,000

Support for PERC’s Pacific Rim Forests and Trade program, which aims to reform trade policy in the forest sector by monitoring timber trade negotiations; coordinating critiques of proposed trade agreements; and defending forest protection from the threat of trade liberalization.

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) - $50,000

Support for RAN’s Old Growth Campaign, aimed at eliminating the consumption of old-growth wood products in home improvement and construction.

Rainforest Alliance - $75,000 per year for up to two years

Support for SmartWood’s International Program. SmartWood is a program of Rainforest Alliance and an Forest Stewardship Council-accredited certifier of environmentally and socially responsible forest management. SmartWood is the only non-profit certifier and is dedicated to the training and education of small forest landowners, including land held by indigenous peoples, and to assisting certified landholders with marketing and outreach for their certified products.

RESOLVE - $15,000

Support for RESOLVE’s efforts to assist the Forest Stewardship Council in resolving certification disputes. RESOLVE is a non-profit organization specializing in neutral mediation, facilitation, and consensus building services dedicated to solving complex environmental and public policy issues.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) - $75,000

Support for “The World Bank/WWF Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use,” to take the initial lessons learned from the Alliance and apply them on country and national scales to maximize the partnership’s effectiveness.

Objective: Increase understanding and awareness of environmental risks to human health

Support policy analysis, technical assistance, and outreach on links between environmental hazards and health risks

Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHGE) - $50,000

Support for “Educating the Public and Policymakers on the Human Health Impacts of Global Environmental Change.” The Center operates out of Harvard Medical School.

Climate Institute - $10,000

Support for a symposium on China's Environmental Health Challenges for the 21^st Century. This grant complements ongoing work in China of the World Resources Institute, and supports developing partnerships between the Climate Institute and Chinese institutions, generation of key materials from the symposium, and facilitation of the Institute's ability to conduct outreach on this subject with the press and key decisionmakers.