ECF 2011 Annual Report - European Climate Foundation

Our grantee community
OUR GRANTEE
COMMUNITY
time supporting a set of European
grantees that help create the political
support in Member States. With
UNEP we are creating the Emissions
Gap Report series, funding the
secretariat and some of the essential
scientific analysis that the report
relies upon. On green growth we
have initiated the Green Growth
Best Practice project, a platform that
will enable the sharing of best practice
knowledge among practitioners
on green growth planning.
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Each ECF programme supports a
community of grantees who are
vital partners in our efforts. Our
work together provides strategic
input to policymaking processes
across Europe, contributing to
the overall goal of economy-wide
decarbonisation.
Although the ECF operates with a
single mission, in order to coordinate
the field of players to tackle
very different topics, different
grantee collaboration approaches
are required.
In the power sector, for example,
the ECF and its partners convened
a research and communications
platform to create the Roadmap
2050 and Power Perspectives 2030
reports. Through this group effort
we have reframed the energy
debate in Europe and worked with
industry and civil society to map
the fundamental issues that need
to be addressed for power sector
decarbonisation.
Meanwhile, the under-resourced
energy efficiency community is challenged
by a diverse and fragmented
set of stakeholders on a largely
invisible topic. Our Energy Efficiency
programme, therefore, has focused
on building technical and advocacy
capacity and supporting alignment
through new platforms and coalitions.
In the transport sector, the ECF has
concentrated funding at the EU level
on influencing car fuel-efficiency
standards that set the pace for innovation
not just in Europe, but around
the globe.
The work of the Global Climate Policy
team is multifaceted: on climate
finance, we are working directly with
EU governments while at the same
Finally, our EU Climate Policies team
incorporates themes from each
of the other programmes at the
Brussels and Member State levels, in
particular by tackling structural policies
and frameworks. Through work
on long-term mitigation targets,
financing, cap-and-trade, etc, this
programme reinforces the work of
the sectoral programmes.
The ECF’s programmes work
to complement one another,
weaving together a consistent
and well-resourced field that can
help policymakers access the
balanced argumentation, information,
and constituencies they
need for progressive climate policy
development.
We are grateful to our grantees for
partnering with us in this endeavour
and are proud of the impact we are
achieving together.
work with the ECF on a number of projects [..] We look forward to working with the ECF again to communicate the challenges but also the opportunities of moving towards a low carbon economy.”
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