The Foundation has awarded the following grants in 2008:

Climate Policy – Adaptation and Forested Landscapes

Ecotrust
Portland, OR
($30,000/one year)
April 2008
To support leadership of a collaborative effort to shape the forest-carbon offset provisions in the emerging Western Climate Initiative.

Maine Philanthropy Center
Portland, ME
($2,000/six months)
April 2008
To support the University if Maine’s development of a Catalog of Climate Change Investment Opportunities, which will assess all of the climate-related research, advocacy, energy and conservation work that is currently underway in the State of Maine.

Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks
($25,000/one year)
April 2008
To organize and stage a conference on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Building on the 2007 McKinsey & Company greenhouse gas emission report, the conference will address the role of the U.S. in reducing emissions through public abatement policies and private sector initiatives emphasizing energy efficiency.

The Pinchot Institute for Conservation
Washington, DC
($40,000/one year)
April 2008
To organize, convene and facilitate a series of four regional workshops to engage the energy and forestry communities in an effort to assess the risks of wood-based bioenergy development to important forest ecosystem values, and to develop recommendations for strengthening existing policy safeguards to ensure sustainability in the face of these increased demands on forests.

The Trust for Public Land
San Francisco, CA
($30,000/one year)
April 2008
To support coordination of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a collaboration of organizations working to develop consensus-based policy recommendations on forest carbon sequestration protocols in the context of emerging federal climate policy.