Environmental Defense Fund
For Support Of Pathways To Carbon Neutrality In China
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Amount$500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/29/2021
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Term12 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
This grant aims to work with existing policy frameworks in China to help align China’s new climate announcements with its existing social and economic reform agenda. EDF will promote a faster, lower, and more robust emission reduction pathway that can potentially avoid 28 billion tons of CO2 by 2035 in China. It will help build a foundation of technical knowledge, shared understanding, and leadership so that China can be on track for faster and lower level of emissions peaking by 2025. (Substrategy: China National Policy)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.edf.org
Address
257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY, 10010, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for agricultural decarbonization and methane reduction in China and along the BRI
This grant supports the Environmental Defense Fund’s scoping study of agricultural methane reduction opportunities in the Global South. EDF will use this project to identify the main levers in China, and within major developing economies, to significantly reduce agricultural methane emissions, both within and across the national borders. This work will unveil in-depth analysis and solutions for three key barriers for agricultural methane mitigation in the Global South: (a) a lack of political will and global momentum, (b) insufficient research and development investments in technical solutions; and (c) insufficient funding and support for deployment and solution adoption in developing countries. (Substrategy: China National Policy)
for the Natural Gas and the Electric Grid project
This grant would complement other grants aimed at coal plant retirements. Its funding falls into two categories: (1) the Environmental Defense Fund would promote rules in the coal rich regions of Texas and the Mid-Atlantic that will accelerate coal retirements and the encourage the deployment of renewables and efficiency and (2) the organization would work to secure better regulatory safeguards for shale gas development and a better understanding of the life-cycle carbon footprint of natural gas compared to coal.
