Union of Concerned Scientists
For Accelerating Emissions Reductions Through Transportation Innovation
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Amount$400,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/17/2014
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is one of the leading organizations on promoting vehicle efficiency and new technologies in the United States. The proposed grant aims at accelerating transportation emissions reductions and their impacts on human health through innovation. In the next two years there is a critical window for moving toward wider-spread adoption of clean vehicles nationwide, and setting the foundation for transformative change in the freight transportation sector. UCS will prioritize the support to the eight states who signed the Memorandum of Understanding, with California to achieve 3.3 million of electric cars by 2025, which would reduce emissions by 60 million tons by 2030.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.ucsusa.org
Address
Two Brattle Square, Cambridge, MA, 02138-3780, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Clean Transportation program
The Union of Concerned Scientists, a national nonprofit organization, uses rigorous, independent science to solve our planet’s most pressing problems. The union works to advance equitable and sustainable transportation electrification of both passenger and heavy-duty vehicles; improve access to low- and zero-carbon mobility options beyond electric vehicles; and promote guardrails in policies to decarbonize transportation fuels, while planning for petroleum phaseout. (Substrategy: Electrification)
for support of the Union of Concerned Scientists' Kendall Science Fellow program
The Kendall Science Fellows Program was established in 2010 to foster innovative and exploratory analysis on emerging, policy-relevant technical issues and to enhance science dialogue among NGOs by engaging a diverse group of both early-career and senior scientists from academia and other sectors. This grant is to the Union of Concerned Scientists to develop two sets of policies with regards to the California Renewable Energy Standard. First, what are the policies that will be necessary to ensure the California meets it Renewable energy goals in a low cost manner. Second, while Renewable Energy Standards have been remarkably effective in promoting renewable energy, there need to be a new set of policy frameworks that go beyond the RES. This grant seeks to develop that framework. Specifically, the grant will fund a fellowship at UCS to answer these questions.
