Energy Foundation
For The China Sustainable Cities Initiative
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Amount$6,000,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2013
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Term18.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The China Sustainable Cities Initiative (CSCI), a program of the Energy Foundation in China, aims to reduce carbon emissions and air pollution in new and existing Chinese cities by improving urban planning and urban transportation. CSCI’s strategy is to conduct pilot projects that spark the design and adoption of effective national policy while building technical capacity to implement its policies locally. Renewed funding for the seventh year of this initiative would produce the following results:
Urban planning: Pilot areas of Chenggong in Kunming and Yuelai in Chongqing will finish construction of their projects’ first phases with at least 2 million square meters of low-carbon development by 2014. Other pilot cities, Changsha and Zhuhai, will develop zoning plans that follow new principles for urban planning. At least five additional cities will be selected as "National Green Eco-Neighbourhood Demonstration Projects" and receive implementation subsidies from the national government.Urban transportation: CSCI grantees will work on implementing newly adopted policies for achieving urban planning and transit goals in China’s 12th Five Year Plan. These public transit policies address pricing mechanisms, indicators and evaluations systems, standards, and incentive policies for sustainable development of urban public transit.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.efchina.org
Address
50 California Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA, 94111, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Energy Foundation seeks to achieve prosperity and a safe climate through sustainable energy. This grant supports the Energy Foundation’s work, including activities to promote greenhouse gas emissions neutrality, world-class air quality standards, energy access, and green growth in China. (Substrategies: China National Policy and Philanthropic Capacity)
for green finance work to support subnational energy and economic transition in China
Energy Foundation works to achieve prosperity and a safe climate through sustainable energy. This grant will support the foundation to continue its efforts on sustainable investment to facilitate the zero-carbon transition of the real economy in China. This grant will strengthen the integration of green finance into key programmatic areas, help build and leverage a net-zero-aligned finance system with more resources flowing into the real decarbonizing economy, and develop a net-zero-aligned trade and supply chain strategy for the foundation and its partners. (Substrategies: China National Policy and Finance)
for the Strategic Communications Program
The Energy Foundation aims to achieve prosperity and a safe climate through sustainable energy. As China embarks on a new economic model that will ultimately shape the trajectory of its national emissions, the foundation’s communications program will seek to build conversations to inspire, inform, and elevate constructive and socially responsible energy transition solutions. (Substrategies: China National Policy and Communications)
