Natural Resources
Current patterns of unsustainable consumption and production are irreversibly harming the natural systems that sustain life, exacerbating economic inequalities and threatening human health and the survival of indigenous peoples.
The Fund seeks initiatives which minimize the risks that current levels of production and consumption pose to the health of people and ecosystems around the world; integrate environmental objectives into public and private economic and policy decisions; strengthen civil society participation in economic and environmental governance; and improve or enforce protection of key environmental resources and biodiversity. Program areas include:
Objective I: Climate change
Strategies:
1. Promote clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency
E&Co. $50,000 a year for up to 2 years
General support to continue developing and implementing their “enterprise development model” as the method for promoting clean energy enterprises which will provide power to the 2.4 billion people who rely on traditional fuels and the 1.6 billion who have no access to energy worldwide.
Energy Future Coalition/Better World Fund - $50,000
General support for the EFC, which is building alliances to support energy efficiency, increased use of renewable energy and biofuels and ways to develop clean energy for the energy poor.
Tides/Honor the Earth - $30,000/year for up to 2 years
To support the Energy Justice Initiative, which demonstrates renewable energy projects on Native lands and develops tribal policies to promote clean energy and greenhouse gas reductions.
2. Apply accountability/watchdog pressure on government and corporations
Natural Resources Defense Council - $50,000
To support a lawsuit against five mid-western electric utilities seeking an order limiting their carbon emissions. Win or lose, the lawsuit creates another powerful force for change in the fight for action to address climate change.
3. Develop new approaches to produce U.S. leadership
Institute for Policy Studies - $4,000. www.ips-dc.org
Travel support to participate in COP11, where they planned to focus on amplifying the voice of, and working in solidarity with, environmental justice groups nationally and internationally.
Redefining Progress/Environment Justice and Climate Change Initiative - $2,000
To bring “voices from the frontline” of climate justice to the COP11.
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy - $35,000
To support regional strategies to reduce global warming pollution through state-level policies in the Southeast.
World Resources Institute - $100,000
Support for their work to leverage U.S. leadership on climate change through a bottom up strategy of state and interstate climate policies and actions and to ensure that the international process moves forward.
4. Influence markets to support reductions in greenhouse gases
Ceres - $65,000
Continued support for their “Sustainable Governance Project,” to mobilize institutional investors to recognize the financial risk of ignoring climate change and to pressure corporations to take voluntary action.
5. Build diverse constituencies for reform
Chesapeake Climate Action Network - $25,000
For organizing and leading a series of training workshops for activists in key geographical/ political regions in the U.S. heartland, to help jumpstart a truly broad-based grassroots climate movement throughout the Chesapeake Bay, now recognized as essential to building the political support needed to force change at the federal level.
Earth Island Institute/Energy Action - $20,000
For “Building a Unified Youth Climate Movement from the Ground Up,” to leverage a clean, efficient, just and renewable energy future.
Environmental Law & Policy Center - $40,000/year for up to 2 years
To drive clean energy and energy efficiency solutions in the Midwest, especially through proving and expanding the clean energy provisions of the Farm Bill (to be reauthorized in 2007) and building support among farmers and policymakers.
National Environmental Trust - $80,000
For their “Global Warming Public Education Campaign,” to intensify and coordinate educational efforts by the environmental community for promoting federal limits on carbon emissions in the U.S.
Physicians for Social Responsibility - $50,000/year for up to 2 years
For their work to mobilize the health community and reframe the debate on energy, climate change, and clean air policy as one that directly affects public health policy.
Union of Concerned Scientists - $50,000
Continued support for UCS’ Climate Solutions Campaign, to promote action on climate change by developing technical solutions that are credible and understandable, and by focusing on specific impacts at the state and regional levels to motivate change.
U.S. Climate Action Network/Natural Resources Defense Council - $40,000
General support for the Climate Action Network, to create greater pressure for U.S. action on climate change by expanding the movement in ten key states.
Objective 2: Consumption
Strategies:
1. Create consumer and institutional pressure
Corporate Ethics International - $40,000
Year 2 of support for the Business Ethics Network’s work improving the effectiveness of corporate campaigns involving collaboration among diverse organizations (such as environmental, labor, health, social justice), by improving strategic planning, the exchange of knowledge among organizations, and the organizations’ skills, abilities, and resources.
Forest Ethics - $40,000
General support for their efforts to transform the paper and wood industries in North America though market pressure designed to help shift consumer and corporate behavior, especially in the catalog industry.
Forest Stewardship Council - IC - $40,000
Support for the establishment of an FSC China national office, as China is now the top importing country worldwide of industrial roundwood, leading to a dramatic increase in illegal logging in South East Asia.
Forest Stewardship Council –U.S. - $75,000
Core support for market campaigns to increase FSC visibility in the green building and paper industries in the U.S., and to promote the highest standard of certification and maintain the integrity of the FSC brand.
Sierra Club of BC Foundation/Markets Initiative - $30,000
General support to Markets Initiative for their work with Canadian publishing companies to help them develop environmentally sound purchasing policies, with the primary goal of eliminating any use of products that come from ancient and endangered forests.
WorldWatch Institute - $40,000
General support for their work providing reliable and relevant information to policymakers and to the public, connecting environmental sustainability to the things people care about: the health of their children, the strength of the economy, and the security of our future.
2. Accountability/watchdog pressure on government and corporations
Oxfam America - $75,000
Support for their Extractive Industries Program, which builds the capacity of indigenous groups and local communities to defend their economic, cultural and social rights, while at the same time working to reform the policies of corporations and financial institutions to take into account environmental and human rights impacts of the projects they fund.
3. Build markets for environmentally preferable products that also enhance the livelihoods of local communities
Forest Trends - $50,000
For their work building communication and shared interests between local communities and market players while at the same time offering sustainable forestry alternatives to development projects. This year they plan to focus on China, the world’s second largest importer of forest products.
Rainforest Alliance - $75,000
General Support for their core programs to develop and implement best management practices, promote sustainably certified products such as coffee and chocolate, and provide certification services.
Objective 3: International Finance and Trade
Strategies:
1. Empower marginalized local communities to exert grassroots pressure on trade and finance institutions
Amazon Watch - $50,000
Year 2 of support for protecting Amazon basin ecosystems and the rights of the region’s indigenous peoples, by bringing the voices and concerns of indigenous and local communities to decision makers and the media.
Bank Information Center - $60,000
General Support. BIC empowers citizens in developing countries to influence multilateral bank-funded projects and policies, by providing information and support to local communities affected by corporate abuses fueled by such public subsidies.
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) - $70,000
General support for their work pushing for stronger environmental and equity policies in international trade law and deepening the connections between human rights and environmental laws.
Corner House - $92,000
Year 2 of support for “Human Rights, Trade, Investment and the Environment Project,” to call attention to the human rights, environmental, and social impacts of large infrastructure projects like dams, mines, and pipelines, ant to advocate for reform within the UK export credit agency and the World Trade Organization.
Council of Canadians - $40,000
Continued support for the “Blue Planet Project,” a broad coalition of grassroots movements and the NGO community working to secure water as a fundamental human right.
EarthWays Foundation/International Accountability Project - $35,000
General Support for the IAP, which provides legal support to individuals and communities who are most affected by projects such as dams and mines, and provides a way for these peoples’ voices to be heard.
FERN - $65,000
General support for FERN to work on the democratization and governance of financial flows, including the Export Credit Agencies and Investment Treaties – which directly affect people on the ground in developing countries.
Global Greengrants Fund - $25,000
This General support grant will allow them to re-grant funds to groups on the front lines of environmental action confronting the challenges of habitat loss, deforestation, air pollution, environmental toxins, resource extraction, and marine and coastal ecosystem destruction.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) - $35,000
For their work in driving policy reform in the areas of trade, agriculture and food systems, by connecting what is happening globally to the local level and making people care.
2. Address corporate abuses, transparency and accountability, and promote sound public policy solutions
Center for Science and the Environment - $50,000
General Support for their work confronting corporate abuse and government collusion in India, which sends important signals to the international community.
EarthRights International - $30,000
General support for one of the few groups actively bridging human rights and environmental concerns, at the forefront of the movement to build a system of global justice to hold governments and corporations accountable for environmental and social degradation.
Environmental Defense - $40,000
For their work raising awareness of the environmental and social risks associated with development lending institutions.
Friends of the Earth –U.S. - $70,000
General support for their work reforming and monitoring international financial institutions for the protection and preservation of community rights and natural habitats.
Friends of the Earth International - $100,000
General support for their work promoting sustainable economic thinking using local priorities as a guide, mobilizing and educating local communities to advocate for their own rights, as well as working to catalyze international financial institutions in creating policies geared towards sustainable development.
International Indian Treaty Council - $35,000
General Support for the IITC, one of the major “voices” and official links for indigenous communities throughout the Americas and the Pacific, helping protect their rights, cultures and sacred lands from corporations and bureaucracies.
Mani Tese - $50,000
Continued support for their MDBs, ECAs, FDI Reform Campaign, with a larger focus this year on human rights violations by ECA-backed projects.
Sage Foundation/Halifax Initiative Coalition - $45,000
General support for Halifax’s work monitoring, and advocating for reform of, the policies of the international financial institutions.
San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds: Democracy Center - $45,000
For “Stories from the Front Row,” to help ordinary citizens better relate to the seemingly distant and arcane world of trade and globalization, through a combination of investigation, reporting, campaigning and training citizens in the art of public advocacy.
Urgewald - $60,000
For their work to try to strengthen the environmental and social standards of German banks, export credit agencies, and international financial institutions in which Germany is a shareholder, challenging those institutions that continue to lag behind.
World Resources Institute (WRI) - $80,000/year for up to 2 years
Support for their International Financial Flows and the Environment program, through which WRI aims to influence the environmental policy of major lenders in both the public and private sectors to adhere more closely to the Equator Principles and to promote sustainable development through IFI investments.
3. Support a strong, effective non-governmental community who can press for reform through watchdog and other mechanisms
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) - 75,000
Year 2 of support for the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN), which examines the social and environmental consequences of the fossil fuel industry and the public funds that make this industry possible, and for advocacy to encourage the World Bank to implement the recommendations of the Extractive Industries Review.
International Forum on Globalization - $100,000
General Support for their work to provide an alternative vision to the current globalization paradigm and continue educating activists, policy makers, the media, and the public about the myriad negative effects of economic globalization and the development strategies of the WTO.
Objective 4: Ecosystems/Biodiversity
Fauna & Flora International - $83,000
Year 2 (plus add-on funding) of support for gorilla conservation work in Africa, to raise worldwide awareness of biodiversity conservation generally, and demonstrate an example of how to more effectively use conservation tools at local, national, and international levels.
Greenbelt Movement International - $100,000
Core support for the development of the Greenbelt Movement Worldwide (U.S.) office, so that GBM can greatly increase the scale and awareness of its programs.
Institute for Policy Studies/Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development - $40,000
In support of CESD’s work developing a program that will ensure the respectful and sustained involvement of indigenous people in certifying eco or green tourism standards.
The Nature Conservancy -PA - $75,000
To help Pennsylvania’s Bureau of Forestry certify and manage the almost 20% of the State’s total forestlands which it has committed to preserving as old-growth reserves.
New England Aquarium - $20,000
Support for their Global Marine Programs (dedicated to protecting the sea and minimizing human impacts on it) which include the Primal Ocean Project, the Sustainable Fisheries Initiative, and World of Water Films.
Pacific Environment - $80,000
For their work protecting marine biodiversity in the North Pacific, particularly around Russia’s Sakhalin Island, through promoting grassroots activism, strengthening communities and reforming international policies.
RARE - $50,000 per year for up to 2 years
Continued general support for their work to achieve conservation results in the world’s most threatened natural areas through community-based education and innovative economic development solutions.
University of British Columbia/Traditional Chinese Medicine Program - $82,500
Support for “Project Seahorse”, an integrated program to conserve and manage seahorses, their relatives, and their habitat, while respecting human needs. Seahorses are extensively and unsustainably traded for use in traditional Chinese medicine.
Wildlife Conservation Society – $97,900
Support for “Improving Ranching Efficiency to Protect Biodiversity in the Brazilian Pantanal,” where WCS will work with cattle ranchers to change management practices.
World Wildlife Fund/TRAFFIC - $75,000 per year for up to 2 years
Continued general support to ensure that wildlife trade is conducted at sustainable levels and in accordance with domestic and international laws and agreements.
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