Sierra Club Foundation
For Implementation Of The India Planning And Research Project
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Amount$420,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2012
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The Sierra Club’s International Climate Program works in China, India, and other parts of the developing world to promote a transition away from coal to clean energy solutions. The Sierra Club seeks to take the experiences gained in their Beyond Coal campaign and assist local networks in India already opposing new coal plants. The project will provide technical assistance to local groups and work to enlist international development agencies such as the World Bank in efforts to deny financing to coal plants. By the end of 2013, the project seeks to have laid the foundation to delay or have cancelled a total of 203 gigawatts of proposed coal-fired power by 2017—an amount that is equal to almost half the installed capacity in the United States.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.sierraclubfoundation.org
Address
2101 Webster Street, Suite 1250, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Clean Transportation for All campaign
The Sierra Club Foundation was founded in 1960 to administer funds in support of scientific, educational, charitable, and literary efforts to preserve, protect, and restore the natural environment. The Sierra Club Foundation’s Clean Transportation for All campaign aims to reduce climate and air pollution, create jobs, and expand access to transportation by ensuring that 100% of the road vehicle fleet in the U.S. is electric. This grant supports the program’s plans to work within federal regulatory and state policy to advance clean trucks and buses and secure funds for EV charging infrastructure. (Substrategy: Electrification)
for the Beyond Coal campaign
The Sierra Club Foundation’s Beyond Coal Campaign is focused on reducing global warming emissions and other air pollutants by transitioning away from fossil-fired electricity and toward clean-energy sources in the United States. The campaign aims for a 100 percent clean electricity system by 2030 to improve air and water quality, protect land and wildlife, develop an efficient and resilient economy, and ensure that the U.S. meets and exceeds its international climate change commitments.
