North American Climate Change Programme (2006)

• Center for Public Interest Research

  To reduce global warming pollution from the Northeast’s major emitters – power plants, cars and trucks – by implementing the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in four to six states, winning commitments from three to four governors to reduce emissions from vehicles by controlling vehicle miles travelled, and from three governors to dramatically increase energy conservation and efficiency. (Over two years)

• Clean Air-Cool Planet

  To expand its core programmes working with communities, corporations, and universities in the US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (Over two years)

• Clean Air Task Force

  • To strengthen the New England Diesel Initiative with additional resources to help it achieve diesel emission reductions of 75 per cent in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island by 2020. (Over two years)

  • To support a study that will measure black carbon deposition and its impact on Arctic snow and ice in an effort to better understand the effect black carbon has on the Arctic climate.

• Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies

  To work with businesses and investors in the Northeast of the US and in Canada on climate change and to launch a campaign with Co-op America to build consumer and individual investor support. (Over two years)

• Connecticut Fund for the Environment

  To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from light-duty vehicles through a comprehensive clean car initiative. (Over two years)

• Conservation Law Foundation

  To continue and expand efforts across New England to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. (Over two years)

• Ecology Action Center

  To reduce Atlantic Canada’s electricity sector’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions by promoting the creation of consistently funded energy efficiency agencies in each province and developing a regional strategy for sustainable energy development.

• Ecotrust Canada

  To identify possible sites that are suitable for alternative electricity generation on Vancouver Island, based on low electricity transmission distances, high site potential, and low ecological and cultural impact.

• Equiterre

  To convince the Quebec government to become one of the driving forces behind the Kyoto Protocol inside the Canadian federation through public education and media efforts.(Over two years)

• National Environmental Trust

  To provide guidance and support to the Canadian Centre for Policy Ingenuity as it undertakes a high impact public education campaign on global warming.

• New Brunswick Lung Association

  To assist municipalities in the inventory, reduction, and tracking of greenhouse gases from vehicle fleets in New Brunswick. (Over two years)

• Ontario Sustainable Energy Association

  To facilitate the development of renewables-based community power projects throughout Ontario. (Over two years)

• Pembina Institute

  To cover the costs of organising and facilitating an international conference on renewable energy and the Clean Development Mechanism held in Montreal in 2005.

• Pollution Probe Foundation

  To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from one of Canada’s largest sources – light-duty vehicles. (Over two years)

• Sage Foundation

  To launch a public and media relations campaign to persuade the Government of Canada to halt planned policies that would weaken Canada’s commitment to combating climate change.

• Surface Transportation Policy Project - STPP

  To change the nature of the US transportation system by strengthening the capacity of STPP Coalition members to become more effective at pursuing initiatives that transform US transportation investments and priorities.

• Tides Center

  To develop an Interfaith Power and Light programme in Alaska and help support the Regeneration Project’s Interfaith Power and Light national campaign. (Over two years)

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