European Climate Foundation
For Global Strategic Climate Communications
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Amount$1,000,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/19/2016
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
This grant will fund the European Climate Foundation’s Global Strategic Climate Communications program. This is an international effort that seeks to promote and defend sound climate science; support clean energy solutions to climate change; and communicate the true costs of fossil fuels globally. The program employs a staff of communications professionals who work with grantees in the E.U., Turkey, India, China, Brazil, Australia, and the United States.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.europeanclimate.org
Address
Riviervismarkt 5
The Hague, 2513 AM Netherlands
The Hague, 2513 AM Netherlands
Grants to this Grantee
for the Strategic Climate Communications Funder Advisory Unit
This grant will support European Climate Foundation’s Global Strategic Communications Council. The council is an international communications network that supports NGO activity all over the world. Their focus is on unbranded communications that support climate science and scientists, promotes clean energy and transportation solutions, and counters fossil fuel opponents of climate mitigation. This grant will fund the council’s core program and its India program. (Substrategy: Communications)
for support of COP25 Green Zone
The European Climate Foundation plays an international leadership role in climate change mitigation. This grant supported the European Climate Foundation’s efforts in facilitating the Climate Action gathering space ("Green Zone") for civil society and non-state actors at COP25 in Madrid, as well as provide support for communications staff. The Green Zone is designed as an open space for dialogue and exchange between academia, scientists, NGOs, the private sector, youth, children, indigenous peoples, and more, to discuss contributions to a carbon neutral and climate resilient planet by 2050. The Green Zone had over 300 activities, including workshops and debates, with a particular focus on youth.
for defending the European transition beyond petroleum
The European Climate Foundation’s transport program serves as the regranter for our transport electrification substrategy in Europe; our priority growth area is in zero-emission road freight. ECF’s grantees will work to electrify all road transport on the continent by 2050. (Substrategy: Transport Electrification)
