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 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 coalition to reduce oil use in transportation
The Sierra Club’s Beyond Oil Coalition has led and re-engaged environmental organizations and other allies to develop a more comprehensive strategy around oil to achieve more carbon reductions from the transportation sector. We recommend renewing support to the Sierra Club to facilitate the continued coalition building, and to refine strategy and start elements of the strategy addressing communication, redefining the debate around oil in the United States in the midst of an oil boom, and seeking strict environmental regulations for oil production.
for the Beyond Coal Campaign
This is our third year funding the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, which seeks to retire at least one-third of the nation’s coal-fired power plants by 2020. This campaign is a major component of the Hewlett Foundation’s U.S. climate and energy strategy for 2014. Over the next three to five years, utilities will face market and regulatory pressures that could make coal plant operation more expensive than cleaner energy alternatives. This project is designed to seize those opportunities, with the aim to retire 105 gigawatts of existing coal capacity in the United States and replace that output with clean energy.
