European Climate Change Programme (2008)

• Climate Action Network Europe

  To enable the adoption of legislation contained in the European Climate and Energy Package to ensure that Europe plays a leadership role in international climate negotiations, and to enable the coordination of environmental NGOs' input to the Copenhagen process. The project will ramp up CAN-Europe's capacity in the domains of policy, communications and administration. (Over three years)

• Climate Action Network International (CAN)

  To support the Global Climate Equity Summit, whose goal is directly set within the broader strategic questions posed by the Bali Road Map. It concerns the balance of “burden sharing” and “benefit sharing,” and the problems of decisively breaking the international climate negotiations impasse. Through the Equity Summit process, CAN seeks to create a unifying vision as it pursues the elements for a potential breakthrough in Copenhagen, followed by the implementation of a global climate change policy.

• Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation – Partnerstvi, o.p.s.

  To change significantly the public and political discourse on how the issue of climate change is communicated and debated. Instead of developing or operating in a hostile environment, where an ambitious climate policy is far from reality, a positive attitude towards CO2 cuts will be engendered. Also, to win government support for effective climate policies, for example regarding the Czech Republic's position on post-2012 negotiations, its attitude towards the EU presidency in 2009, and nationally, in terms of domestic legislation. (Over two years)

• European Climate Foundation (ECF)

  To establish a new European entity and provide one year's start up funding. ECF is a five-year collaborative effort between five major funders – the Hewlett Foundation, the McCall MacBain Foundation, Arcadia Foundation, The Children's Fund (Chris Hohn) and Oak Foundation. The main scope of activity will be energy and transport, and the area of operations will be predominantly the European Union. ECF will make grants in Europe and thus complement Oak's climate change programme.

• European Federation for Transport and Environment

  To double the fuel efficiency of newly sold passenger cars in the EU by 2020 – which translates into an average CO2 emission figure for new cars of 80 g/km by 2020. The main avenue to achieve this should be an EU-level regulation with strong intermediate targets, such as 120 g/km by 2012. (Over two years)

• Friends of the Earth Europe

  To ensure every EU member state is legally committed to annual domestic cuts in emissions, starting from 2013. These cuts would contribute to a 30 per cent reduction of EU-wide domestic emissions by 2020 and a 90 per cent reduction by 2050. The aim of short-term, country-based targets is to make national political institutions accountable for delivering cuts while they are still in office. The campaign has two approaches: at the national level, to demand climate laws for annual emission cuts; and at the European-wide level, to ensure the EU cuts its emissions year on year. (Over three years)

• Institute for Sustainable Development

  To encourage Poland to become active in the creation of climate protection policy and its implementation in the European Union. The key objectives underpinning this goal are, firstly, to create and lobby for the adoption of an alternative nation-wide energy policy; secondly, to promote the use of EU funds in the transport and energy sectors in line with climate protection objectives; and thirdly, to increase public pressure on elected officials and the public administration to take strong action in favour of climate protection. Lastly, to transfer best practices to other coal-dependent new EU member states. (Over two years)

• Polish Ecological Club

  To ensure that Poland declares its commitment to taking ambitious action on climate change at the Conference of the Parties (COP) in Poznan, and to strengthen this declaration further before the COP in Copenhagen. To raise public awareness of the threats posed by climate change, which will in turn have a significant impact on convincing the Polish government, industry and civil institutions to commit to a global deal on climate change, and to the country achieving its climate policy goal of a 40 per cent reduction of greenhouse gas emission by 2020. (Over two years)

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