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Reaching Toward a Vibrant and Sustainable Coastal Louisiana through Enhanced Strategic Partnerships, Bolstered and More Effective NGOs, and Coordinated Philanthropic Investment

Organization

Environmental Defense Fund

Website

http://www.environmentaldefense.org

Date Awarded

June 22, 2010

Geographic Area

North America\Gulf Coast

Description

To support strategic engagement of on the ground partners in the Gulf to bring together, engage, and lead Coastal Louisiana recovery and resilience efforts.

Jefferson School Neighborhood Engagement Study

Organization

Jefferson Area Board for Aging, Inc.

Website

www.jabacares.org

Date Awarded

June 22, 2010

Geographic Area

North America\Chesapeake-Appalachia

Description

To support community engagement in discussions concerning programs to be offered at the Jefferson School City Center and incorporating these discussion into the overall development of the Center.

Sustain the Lower 9: Vision to Action

Organization

Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development

Website

None

Date Awarded

June 9, 2010

Geographic Area

North America\Gulf Coast

Description

To support CSED as a central organizing and communications hub for the lower 9th ward of New Orleans in light of the BP oil spill.

Integrating Conservation Incentive Agreement into Forest Tenure Reform Policy and Ecological Forest Compensation Program in China

Organization

Shan Shui Conservation Center

Website

http://www.shanshui.org

Date Awarded

June 8, 2010

Geographic Area

Asia\China

Description

To support China's forest protection program by promoting the conservation incentive agreement model as a vehicle for the distribution of government eco-compensation funds.

Habitat Restoration through Eco-Finance in Costa Rica's Balsa River Watershed

Organization

Nectandra Institute

Website

http://www.nectandra.org

Date Awarded

June 8, 2010

Geographic Area

Tropical Americas\Mesoamerica

Description

To support eco-financing as a model approach to protect and restore forests and secure water resources.

Community-based coastal restoration and sanitation in the Golfo Dulce

Organization

Asociacion Centroamericana para la Economia, la Salud y el Ambiente

Website

http://www.acepesa.org

Date Awarded

June 8, 2010

Geographic Area

Tropical Americas\Mesoamerica

Description

To support creation of a regional model of sustainable management of solid and liquid waste in coastal communities of the Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica.

Scoping Trip for Southern Peruvian Amazon

Organization

CAVU

Website

http://www.cavusite.org

Date Awarded

June 8, 2010

Geographic Area

Tropical Americas\Andes-Amazon

Description

To support creation of a database of aerial still and film photography of Madre de Dios's unique geography to assist in the mapping and monitoring of growing environmental threats.

Climate Action Planning Technical Exchange between China Provinces and U.S. States

Organization

Center for Climate Strategies

Website

http://www.eesi21.org

Date Awarded

June 8, 2010

Geographic Area

Asia\China

Description

To support US-China cooperation on climate change by supporting a US educational study tour for a Chinese delegation of NDRC and provincial leaders to learn about existing state climate action planning initiatives.

Creating Nested Models for REDD with Significant Social and Environmental Benefits

Organization

Conservation International Foundation

Website

www.conservation.org

Date Awarded

June 8, 2010

Geographic Area

Tropical Americas\Andes-Amazon

Description

To support development of 'nested' models for REDD systems that integrate site-based activities for private sector investment within national-level frameworks.

Capacity building for implementing indigenous REDD in the Pan-Amazon

Organization

Environmental Defense Fund

Website

http://www.environmentaldefense.org

Date Awarded

June 8, 2010

Geographic Area

Tropical Americas\Andes-Amazon

Description

To support indigenous groups of the Amazon Basin on advancing forest conservation through Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) programs

Nexus, Carbon for Development: Bringing Fairness and Transparency to the Carbon Market

Organization

Group for the Environment, Renewable Energies and Solidarity

Website

http://www.geres.eu and www.nexus-c4d.org

Date Awarded

June 8, 2010

Geographic Area

Asia\Himalayas

Description

To support Nexus Carbon for Development to provide energy and development practitioners greater access to carbon markets and to help establish an innovative funding mechanism dedicated to low carbon development projects.

Addressing China's Global Environmental Footprint and Rivers, Dams & Climate Change

Organization

International Rivers

Website

http://www.internationalrivers.org

Date Awarded

June 8, 2010

Geographic Area

Asia\China

Description

To support strong environmental standards by targeting the role of dam builders and financiers, and limiting the use of hydropower carbon offsets.

Appalachian Harvest Expansion

Organization

Appalachian Sustainable Development

Website

http://www.appsusdev.org

Date Awarded

June 8, 2010

Geographic Area

North America\Chesapeake-Appalachia

Description

To support the long-term viability of the Appalachian Harvest program by executing targeted program enhancements aimed at increasing market opportunities and on-farm productivity.

Sustainable Management of Alto Huayabamba Conservation Concession--Phase II

Organization

Amazónicos por la Amazonía

Website

http://www.ampaperu.info

Date Awarded

June 8, 2010

Geographic Area

Tropical Americas\Andes-Amazon

Description

To continue support for the community-based management of the Alto Huayabamba Conservation Concession in northeastern Peru.

Verified Conservation Performance on Farms in the Muddy Creek Watershed, VA with Water Quality Monitoring to Document Impacts

Organization

Water Stewardship

Website

http://corporatewaterstewardship.org

Date Awarded

June 8, 2010

Geographic Area

North America\Chesapeake-Appalachia

Description

To support improvements in water quality in the Muddy Creek watershed of the Shenandoah Valley by working with farmers to implement holistic on-farm best management practices including monitoring water qualityimprovements in water quality.

Building Capacity to Implement REDD Projects: Catalyzing Action in Lao PDR

Organization

Wildlife Conservation Society

Website

www.wcs.org

Date Awarded

June 8, 2010

Geographic Area

Asia\Greater Mekong Subregion

Description

To support the long-term conservation of Lao PDR's forest by building government capacity to launch a national REDD strategy built on the existing system of National Protected Areas.

Securing Governance and Leveraging Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Sustainable Development of the Rio Madeira Complex

Organization

World Wildlife Fund, Inc.

Website

www.worldwildlife.org

Date Awarded

June 8, 2010

Geographic Area

Tropical Americas\Andes-Amazon

Description

To support the environmental impact monitoring of the construction of the Madeira dams complex and to develop ecologically rigorous methodologies for mitigating impacts from hydropower development.

Dragon Run Forest Conservation

Organization

The Nature Conservancy

Website

http://www.nature.org

Date Awarded

April 6, 2010

Geographic Area

North America\Chesapeake-Appalachia

Description

To support protection and restoration of the ecologically unique Dragon Run watershed in eastern Virginia through land acquisition and sustainable forest management.

The European Union and China Collaboration to Drive the International Process on Climate Change

Organization

The Climate Group

Website

http://www.theclimategroup.org

Date Awarded

April 6, 2010

Geographic Area

Asia\China

Description

To support the EU-China leadership on energy security, climate change and low carbon development by deepening bilateral collaboration in clean and alternative energy, environmentally-friendly technologies, and energy and environmental service industries.

Renewing U.S.-China Climate Relations After Copenhagen

Organization

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Website

http://www.carnegieendowment.org

Date Awarded

April 6, 2010

Geographic Area

Asia\China

Description

To support continued Track II communications between the United States and China and to provide technical assistance in support of an international agreement on energy-related climate policy measures.

Shifting China's Power Sector toward a Low Carbon Future

Organization

China Research Center for Public Policy, China Society of Economic Reform

Website

http://www.crcpp.org

Date Awarded

April 6, 2010

Geographic Area

Asia\China

Description

To support a low-carbon transformation of China's power sector by determining the policy and structural adjustments needed to help reduce power sector carbon intensity, to reach low carbon power generation targets, and to make recommendations regarding new regulatory instruments and clean technologies.

Building an Economic and Institutional Basis for Smart Grid Development in China

Organization

Energy Transition Institute

Website

None

Date Awarded

April 6, 2010

Geographic Area

Asia\China

Description

To support the launch of an initiative with the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) to identify and address China's institutional and economic needs for smart grid development.

Investigation and Research into China's Forest Management Policies

Organization

Green Beagle

Website

http://www.bjep.org.cn

Date Awarded

April 6, 2010

Geographic Area

Asia\China

Description

To support in-depth research and investigative environmental journalism into the on-the-ground results and efficacy of China's existing policies on forest conservation and management.

Development of Standards and Sustainability for Global Biochar Deployment

Organization

International Biochar Initiative

Website

http://www.biochar-international.org

Date Awarded

April 6, 2010

Geographic Area

Asia\China

Description

To support universal sustainability guidelines for biochar production and utilization systems, and to enhance interactions between the IBI and colleagues in China in support of biochar research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) in China.

Development of Amazon Hydroelectric Dam Program

Organization

International Rivers

Website

http://www.internationalrivers.org

Date Awarded

April 6, 2010

Geographic Area

Tropical Americas\Andes-Amazon

Description

To support baseline analyses for program development focused on countering major hydroelectric dams planned for Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.

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