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1998 GRANTS MAIN INDEX • GRANTS & FINANCES
Environment
The Wallace Global Fundıs grantmaking in this arena seeks to address the profound concerns scientists, policymakers, and citizens have raised about the full cost of human activity on the planet. Through support for innovation and recognition of the cross-cutting nature of risks and solutions, the Wallace Global Fund is working to build and strengthen the base of knowledge about, as well as popular and political support for, environmentally sustainable development.
The Fund seeks initiatives which integrate environmental objectives into public and private economic and policy decisions of global significance, and strengthen civil society participation in international economic and environmental governance.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Objective: Integrate environmental objectives into macroeconomic management
Get America Working! - $50,000 over three months
Support for Tax Shifting and its Labor Market Impacts to mobilize key constituencies-
including labor, seniors and minorities-
behind the idea of eliminating payroll taxes and replacing them with increased natural resource and pollution taxes. Get America Working! believes decreasing unemployment provides the greatest opportunity for improving both the quality of life and the quality of the environment.
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) - $50,000 over six months
Continuing support for the Consultative Group on Sustainable Development Indicators (CGSDI) Secretariat. The CGSDI’s mission is to develop an index of sustainable development to replace the GDP.
The Sustainability Institute - $140,000 over two years
In support of A Research Project on Understanding and Transforming Commodity Trading Systems, an effort to better understand commodities systems from extraction to owner to financier to consumer to discard, including economic and environmental impacts.
The Tides Foundation - $25,000 and $22,568, over four months
Bridge funding and support for institutional capacity building at Center for a Sustainable Economy (CSE).
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Objective: Strengthen the contribution of the international financial institutions
(IFIs), such as the multilateral development bank group and the International
Monetary Fund, to sustainable development
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Support analysis, advocacy, and outreach to bring about changes in policies,
practices, and lending appropriate to sustainable development
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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) - $160,000 over two years
Support for the Program to Democratize Development: Promoting Accountability at the World Bank, in keeping with BIC’s mission to promote IFI reforms that foster information disclosure, citizen participation, and public accountability.
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) - $60,000
$40,000 in core support and $20,000 support for CIEL’s International Financial Institutions Reform Program. CIEL is working to effect change in the private sector operations of multilateral financial institutions such as the World Bank’s International Financial Corporation (IFC). CIEL is also supporting the development of an analogue to the World Bank’s Inspection Panel which would conduct independent investigations into IFC and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) projects.
Centro Internazionale Crocevia - $65,673
Continuing support for the Italian World Bank Campaign. Over the first two years of the project, Crocevia has been building a reputation for strategic IFI reform in both public and political fora, as well as for strengthening national and international NGO networks. In this project year, Crocevia will focus on those government agencies that are less informed or have been less responsive to the IFI reform agenda.
The Development Gap (DGAP) - $70,000 over 18 months
Continuing support for The Coordinating Role of DGAP in the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative, which challenges the World Bank to open up one of its most closed areas of work to increased public scrutiny and participation.
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (E-LAW) - $55,000
Support for Sustainable Solutions Initiative. E-LAW continues to provide international environmental activists and lawyers with access to scientific and legal resources, as well as relevant and effective case studies from both the US and other countries, helping to build lasting, local capacity to defend the environment.
Friends of the Earth (FoE) - $100,000 over two years
Continued support for FoE’s international program efforts to increase capital flows supporting sustainable development, specifically its World Bank/Private Sector Reform Campaign and the Green Investments Program
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Objective: Integrate environmental concerns into the decisions of private
financial institutions and capital markets
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Support further research, policy analysis, and information dissemination
of environmental impacts on private investment and business decisionmaking
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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
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) - $40,000
Support for CIEL’s Private Sector Legal Strategy Project, which addresses the challenges triggered by the enormous rise in private capital flows from developed to developing countries. CIEL will develop an overall legal strategy for reform efforts around the private sector, as well as continue to work with several multinational corporations whose business practices have begun to reflect recognition of the positive relationship between environmental stewardship and the financial bottom line.
Delphi International Limited - $99,500 over nine months
Support for Sustainable Investment: Persuading the UK Pensions Industry project, designed to respond to a recent policy recommendation requiring companies to state their environmental and ethical performance monitoring. Delphi will produce two reports which will educate key audiences within the pensions industry-
pension fund trustees and industry professionals-
on the merits of socially responsible investment.
The Ecological Foundation - $51,000 over six months
Support for the Ecological Foundation and The Corner House, in collaboration with other partners, to produce the Outsider’s Guide to Financial Markets, a primer written by campaigners and financial analysts, intended to be a guide for the NGO community explaining the nuts and bolts of project financing and financial markets.
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) - $120,650
Support for Influencing Private Sector Financial Flows Through Institutional Reform in International Financial Institutions, an effort to promote adequate and equitably applied international agreements for common environmental and social standards for export credit and investment insurance agencies and the World Bank’s private sector affiliates.
Friends of the Earth (FoE) - $100,000 over two years
Continued support for FoE’s international program efforts to increase capital flows supporting sustainable development, specifically its World Bank/Private Sector Reform Campaign and the Green Investments Program.
Innovest Group, International - $25,000 over two months
Support for ongoing research on additional corporations for inclusion in Innovest’s environmental rating service database.
International Dispute Resolution Associates (IDR) - $70,000
Support for Improving Environmental Collaborations, which is compiling state-of-the-art collaboration strategies from around the world to help corporations and environmental groups use their resources to work together to improve local economies and environmental sustainability.
National Wildlife Federation (NWF) - $100,000
Support for NWF and Friends of the Earth’s joint project, Making the Quantum Leap From Washington to Wall Street, aimed at providing knowledge and communications tools to NGOs to enable them to take advantage of new opportunities to raise awareness in the private sector about the financial gains linked to environmental and social responsibility.
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) - $200,000 over two years
Core support for RMI’s work to enhance environmental preservation, climatic stabilization, economic vitality, and global security by promoting the efficient and sustainable use of resources and thereby. RMI staff works in areas such as transportation, energy, forestry, and profitable climate protection, and seeks new ways to consolidate findings and deliver intellectual capital to corporations and communities.
Urgewald - $100,000 over two years
Weltwirtschaft, Oekologie & Entwicklung (WEED) - $50,000
Support for two German NGOs, Urgewald (via their Private Sector Program), and WEED (via their Potential and Risk of the Private Capital Flows for Sustainable Development), to collaborate on a host of private sector and IFI reform issues: with multilaterals, through reform of the IFC and MIGA, and with bilaterals, through the establishment of environmental and social guidelines for Germany’s bilateral export credit and insurance agencies.
World Resources Institute (WRI) - $80,000
Wall Street investors and financial institutions traditionally focus on short-term investment, due in large part to shareholders’ desire for immediate results, which precludes any capacity to consider environmental concerns, such as climate change, which progress on a time horizon many times longer than any business planning cycle. Support for Greening the Trillions: Extending the Depth and Breadth of Sustainable Development Thinking on Wall Street, will analyze and segment firms that have shown an inclination toward long-term investing, document their success, and disseminate this information to others in the industry to make the case for the long-term, sustainable perspective.
World Resources Institute (WRI) - $32,187
Support for Sustainable Development Business & Capital Markets Training for Private Foundation Program Officers, a two-day training program held at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Pocantico Conference Center.
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Objective: Strengthen global political and popular support for effective
action to address climate change
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Support advocacy, outreach, and coalition-building to counter economic
and scientific disinformation campaigns, and to mobilize new climate constituencies
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Support policy analysis and advocacy on solutions to climate change
Center for Sustainable Development in the Americas (CSDA) - $172,400 over ten months
Support for phase I of a two-year project to promote developing country participation in the design of an equitable and effective Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
Congressional Institute for the Future/GLOBE-USA - $25,000
In support of GLOBE-USA’s hosting of the 1998 GLOBE (Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment) International General Assembly. GLOBE is the only global parliamentarians’ organization dedicated to protecting the environment, and has as its mission the reconciliation of economic activity and environmental protection.
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) - $100,000
Support for Stabilizing Greenhouse Gas Levels in the Face of World Population Growth, which examines the interactions among global economic, demographic, and climate systems, with a particular focus on population and greenhouse gas emissions.
National Environmental Trust (NET) - $400,000
Support for NET’s three-year project to work towards the completion of an effective international greenhouse gas emissions reduction agreement to which the US is a signatory; the acceptance of this agreement by the US; and the implementation of domestic US greenhouse gas emission reduction measures.
Ozone Action - $40,000
Core support allowing Ozone Action to continue their campaign to build public support for leadership to address global climate change.
Pacific Forest Trust (PFT) - $75,000
Support for Creating a Domestic Forest Carbon Market. In addition to education and constituency building on the important role of forests in addressing global climate change, PFT is working to create the financial instruments and mechanisms that will enable a domestic market for US forest carbon, based on sustainable forest management and conservation.
Redefining Progress (RP) - $60,750
Support for Auctioning Carbon Emission Permits: An Education and Coalition-Building Effort. RP will build the intellectual framework for, and begin education of the media, public, and policymakers on, the idea that emission permits should be auctioned rather than given away. RP will write a series of papers on auctioning permits, linking the idea to equity, economic costs, market prices, windfall profits, property rights and administrative costs.
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Objective: Mobilize market forces and supportive international arrangements
to promote sustainable forestry
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Support strategic planning, advocacy, coalition building, and outreach
on forest certification as well as substitution and demand reduction of wood
products
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Support policy analysis and advocacy on improved forestry programs in international
institutions
Certified Forest Products Council (CFPC) - $100,000
Core support for the CFPC in their efforts to improve forest management worldwide by facilitating the increased purchase, use, and sale of independently certified forest products.
Development Center for Appropriate Technology (DCAT) - $50,000
Support for Sustainable Context to Building Codes, an effort to focus attention on the regulatory and cultural barriers associated with more traditional and sustainable low-impact building methods.
Forest Stewardship Council, International (FSC, A.C.) - $65,000
Support for FSC’s Strategic Planning Process. Founded in 1993, the FSC is currently the only fully operational, independent, third-party accreditor of sustainable forestry certification bodies.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) - $100,000 over two years
Support for the Consumer’s Choice Council’s Eco-Labeling Campaign. In an increasingly global marketplace, production processes are often beyond the reach of domestic regulations. Eco-labels aid consumers in understanding the environmental and labor costs incurred in the production of the products and services they buy.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) - $15,000 over two months
Travel support for staff to ensure meaningful and consistent participation by the NGO community in the international and national standard-setting process.
Pacific Forest Trust (PFT) - $75,000
Support for Creating a Domestic Forest Carbon Market. In addition to education and constituency building on the important role of forests in addressing global climate change, PFT is working to create the financial instruments and mechanisms that will enable a domestic market for US forest carbon, based on sustainable forest management and conservation.
Rainforest Alliance - $150,000 over two years
Support for the international activities of the SmartWood program. Founded in 1989, SmartWood remains the oldest and largest forestry certification program in existence, and the only major non-profit forestry certifier.
The Wilderness Society - $100,000
Support for the Forest Stewardship Council’s (US) Sustainable Forestry Public Education Project, a nationwide campaign to promote and build a constituency for sustainable forestry practices, countering industry efforts to weaken and moderate change.
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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
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Center for Health and the Global Environment - $100,000
Continued support for the Center’s educational and policy programs aimed at promoting a wider understanding of the human health impacts of global environmental change.
World Resources Institute (WRI) - $100,000
Continued support for WRI’s efforts to document the links between environmental policy, health and development in China.
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