(Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
he global climate is changing at a rate that jeopardizes our environmental, economic and social welfare. The choices we make now about how we generate and use energy can either dramatically worsen the situation or set the stage for a sustainable future. Recognizing global climate change as one of the great challenges of our time, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation made a commitment to help build a clean-energy economy and, in early 2007, launched its five-year Climate Change Initiative.
Strategy
The Climate Change Initiative, which will wind down by 2011, supports analytical work that informs technology innovation policies. These are the domestic and international policies that are needed to help foster technological innovation in the energy sector and accelerate the emergence of new clean-energy technologies.
Current funding is focused on understanding and improving:
- The energy technology innovation system in the United States (i.e., the complex of incentives, regulations, markets, and public and private institutions within which the development, demonstration, early adoption, and diffusion of new energy technologies takes place);
- Mechanisms and institutions that support clean-energy technology development and deployment around the globe (including finance mechanisms).
Future Grants
In 2011, the foundation does not anticipate inviting grant proposals under this strategy.
For information on the availability of grants for specific projects, review the Environment Program’s Grantmaking Process & Funding Opportunities page.