European Climate Change Programme (2005)

• CEE Bankwatch Network

  To campaign to stop or change government plans to build large and environmentally damaging infrastructure projects in Central and Eastern European countries; and to divert finances from environmentally destructive modes of transportation towards sustainable ones. (Over two years)

• Clean Air Action Group

  To raise public awareness of the damage and costs caused by heavy trucks, and possible solutions. Specifically, to have the external costs of road freight transport internalized through the application of a per kilometre tax; the revenues gained to stimulate increased use of rail freight. (Over two years)

• European Federation for Transport and Environment

  To organise maximum public and political pressure for an effective system which limits carbon dioxide emissions from new passenger cars sold on the EU market as of 2008, the year the current voluntary industry commitment in this field ends. (Over three years)

  Friends of the Earth Europe

  To orchestrate a public awareness campaign across Europe to ensure the speeding up of political action on climate change. (Over three years)

• Greenpeace International

  To generate the public and political will necessary to jumpstart the large-scale uptake of renewable technologies and energy efficiency measures. (Over three years)

  The Climate Group

  To provide core funding for the Climate Group’s communications, information and stakeholder programmes. This will enable the continuing documentation and communication of how leading organisations are reducing emissions and of the benefits of their action. (Over two years)

• World Resources Institute

  To replicate the successful US-based Green Power Market Development Group project in Europe. “Group-EU” will be a unique corporate renewable energy “buyers’ group” comprising major commercial and industrial energy users dedicated to building corporate markets for green power within the EU as a means of building them up to a global scale. (Over two years)

Active Grants From Previous Years

• Assoxiaçao Nacional De Conservaçao da Natureza Quercus

  To effect change in the behaviour of the Portuguese public regarding energy consumption at home, with the aim of saving energy and thus directly or indirectly reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Portugal. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Climate Action Network Europe

  To develop an advocacy project on the key questions surrounding the implementation of the emissions trading system in the EU in the period 2008-2012; to analyse the options for extending the EU emissions trading system to new sectors (including transportation) and gases; and to ensure subsequent implementation of an enlarged system in the second commitment period, starting 2012. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Energy Club Environmental Association

  To develop reliable information resources with the aim of influencing and leading public opinion and to inform and educate decision-makers in order to facilitate the development of renewable energy sources in Hungary. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Friends of the Earth Ireland

  To support the building and development of a new environmental organisation based in Ireland and a member of Friends of the Earth International with a special emphasis on campaigning on climate change and on waste. (Second year of three-year grant)

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