Greenpeace Fund

This grant would support the Fund’s efforts to encourage development of clean energy in East Asia. The Curbing Coal in China Campaign would take advantage of increasing public health concerns over coal pollution, Chinese Communist Party political priorities to ensure water security and social stability in ethnically sensitive and ecologically fragile north and west, as well as China’s position as a major player in renewable energy technologies. Greenpeace would leverage this opportunity to encourage regulations that would increase the cost of coal burning in China, curb coal consumption and expansion in eastern and western China, and support significant uptake of renewables. Greenpeace is currently the only NGO campaigning against coal in mainland China. If successful, Curbing Coal in China would increase the profile of public debate on the negative impacts of coal-fired power plants on air quality and the threat that continued reliance on coal poses to valuable water sources. The Campaign would also encourage the development of renewable energy resources, the reduction of the development of coal in the eastern, northern, and western provinces of China, and the reduction of China’s carbon emissions in the long term.