European Climate Foundation

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The European Climate Foundation (ECF) is an international foundation with its headquarters in The Hague and branches in Brussels , Berlin , London and Warsaw . Its goal is to “promote a climate and energy policy that significantly reduces European greenhouse gas emissions.” The ECF also works to ensure that Europe takes on an international leadership role in climate protection .

The foundation was established in early 2008. It is directed by Laurence Tubiana .

financing

The work is carried out by six main sponsors, most of whom are foundations:

  • Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), funded by The Children's Investment Fund
  • KR Foundation
  • McCall McBain Foundation
  • National Postcode Loterij , Amsterdam (Dutch Charity Lottery)
  • Oak Foundation
  • Good energies Foundation

Individual projects are supported by other foundations, including the ClimateWorks Foundation , the Finnish Sitra Foundation, the Mercator Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation .

Promotion activity

In particular, the ECF supports organizations working for the transition to a low-carbon economy in Europe. It allocates the majority of its funds to non-governmental organizations and think tanks that work towards political changes in the area of ​​climate protection. Individuals are not supported. The ECF has an annual budget of around 25 million euros. In 2012, it awarded 181 grants to 102 organizations.

network

The ECF is part of a global network around the San Francisco- based ClimateWorks Foundation , which works for climate protection worldwide. Through this network, it works together with other regional foundations , including the Energy Foundation in India , the Energy Foundation's China program and the Latin American Regional Climate Initiative founded in 2013 .

Fields of work

The Foundation's fields of work are: "Providing approaches that justify new theoretical concepts", "Creating a sound knowledge base as an argument for the need for change", "Bringing suitable actors together" and "Raising awareness of the facts and the need for action".

In terms of personnel and structure, the work of the EFC is divided into three main areas: program areas , cross-cutting initiatives and geographic initiatives .

  • The power generation program area deals with a reorientation away from fossil fuels towards renewable energies. The Energy Efficiency program area examines the energy efficiency of buildings, industrial products and devices, and the Transport program area focuses primarily on tightening CO 2 emission standards for cars, light commercial vehicles and trucks.
  • The cross-sectional initiatives of the ECF want to “provide well-founded arguments for sustainable growth, strengthen the engagement of international and regional forums” and “provide facts about climate change and its consequences”. These include the EU's climate policy topics, CO 2 low-carbon economy, International Climate Policy and Strategic Communication.
  • The geographic initiatives focus on the European Union or EU politics, Germany, Great Britain, France and Poland.

organization structure

The foundation employs around 60 people at five locations. The work of the foundation is controlled by a board of eleven members. Its members (as of November 2019) :

  • Stephen Brenninkmeijer (Chairman of the Board of Directors)
  • Kate Hampton (Vice Chair)
  • Jonathan Pershing (Vice Chair)
  • Sharan Burrow
  • Connie Hedegaard
  • Leonardo Lacerda
  • Pascal Lamy
  • Charlotte Pera
  • Antha Williams
  • John McCall McBain
  • Laurence Tubiana ( Chief Executive Officer )

Info portal

Since the beginning of 2014, the ECF has been co-financing the information portal Klimafakten.de in order to provide a broader public with basic knowledge about the issues of climate change and climate protection. The affiliated scientific advisory board, made up of 17 researchers from climate research institutions in Germany and Switzerland, checks the texts for topicality and correctness. In addition to a glossary that explains scientific terms, the portal deals with controversial claims and offers specialist articles on the topic of climate change.

In 2017, the Klimafakten.de editorial team was awarded the Environment Media Prize in the “Online” category. The reasoning states: "The team [...] impresses with its technical and journalistic quality and makes klimafakten.de compulsory reading for all those who do persuasion in matters of climate protection today."

literature

  • Andreas Jahn: Demand management in the German electricity system - the untapped resource for security of supply. Berlin 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EuropeanClimate.org website , accessed on November 1, 2019.
  2. ↑ Susanne Ehlerding: Climate change - grassroots movement for more climate protection. In: Der Tagesspiegel. January 7, 2019. From Tagesspiegel.de, accessed November 1, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b sponsors. In: europeanclimate.org. European Climate Foundation, accessed October 27, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Who we are. In: europeanclimate.org. European Climate Foundation, accessed October 27, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Who we are. In: europeanclimate.org. European Climate Foundation, accessed October 27, 2016 .
  6. ↑ europeanclimate.org ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / europeanclimate.org
  7. ^ Board. In: europeanclimate.org. European Climate Foundation, accessed November 1, 2019 .
  8. ^ The 2017 award winners . In: UmweltMedienpreis. Deutsche Umwelthilfe, accessed on November 1, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Demand management in the German electricity system: the untapped resource for security of supply. In: Knowledge Center. Regulatory Assistance Project. RAPonline.org, accessed November 1, 2019.