Transition to Clean Energy for Sustainable Development

2. 1. Mission Foster a truly secure, equitable and sustainable development by accelerating the transition from a resource depleting economy to a clean growth model accessible to all and based on the development of renewable energy. Combat global climate change and energy poverty through efficient use of energy, community-based solutions and the promotion of renewable energy.

3. 2a. Status (supplementary information from the adopted strategy) Steering committee is established and have met in Paris in Feb. 2007, Global Green has part time consultant (strategic partnership with the University of California Davis Energy Efficiency Center), part time staff dedicated to intelligent energy program and will hire full time coordinator by mid year. Feasibility study of global solar initiative (and fund) was completed, but not followed up on (also due to emergence of other projects, for instance concerning food waste) and then overtaken by the establishment of the Green Climate Fund and by having a whole sustainable development goal (SDG 7) focused on our working field. The solar report card (grading instrument for governments) is being drafted for 14 nations and California.

4. 2a. Status (continued) Developed a climate change and coastal cities campaign or initiative based on our work in New Orleans - global conference held in December 2008 in New Orleans. Solar for Sandy effort launched in 2013 to help increase resiliency against future storms (solar systems on community hubs to mitigate future power blackouts). Since 2015 projects for enhanced resilience in small island development states (in the South Pacific). Given the high US carbon emissions (not to speak of the country‘s recent decision concerning the Paris agreement) the US focus of the program is an advantage. Program turnover is about 3 Mio. USD per year.

5. 2b. Long term targets Spur renewable energy support and energy efficiency measures Foster a value shift in energy consumption habits Community-based projects using green building (especially to help increase resiliency in coastal cities), energy efficient appliances and techniques Reduce energy poverty Help bring electricity to 1 billion people Accelerate investment in clean technologies and transfer of new energy models to the developing world Foster government action via the report card 5 MUSD Program Turnover – 20 GCNOs involved

6. 3. Market description: market segmentation/trends donor market (supplementary information from the adopted strategic plan) Donor market is very large but complicated by the many competitors. Successful? Foundations growing moderately yes (with economy/climate change) Governments: OECD countries growing *yes Private sector growing yes Individuals growing yes

7. 3. Market description: market segmentation/trends Donor market (continued) Successful? International Organizations: EU worth exploring not yet (EU, GEF, Green Climate Fund of UNFCCC, Clean Technology Fund of the World Bank, etc.*) Local contributions growing yes (from recipient or from recipient‘s government)

8. 3. Market description: market segmentation/trends Donor market (continued) * The global environment facility GEF (where Green Cross Switzerland has a specific access to) donates a lot for implementing climate change adaptation projects for poor communities (build resilience, fight energy poverty) and specifically concerning land degradation (see https://www.thegef.org/topics/climate-change-adaptation and https://www.thegef.org/topics/land-degradation ). The new Green Climate Fund has the same focus (see for instance https://www.eda.admin.ch/deza/en/home/partnerships-mandates/partnerships-multilateral-organisations/weitere-organisationen-netzwerke/fvc.html ) but it needs to be seen how it can best be approached (UN institutions which also helped Green Cross Switzerland access GEF?). As a whole sustainable development goal (number 7) focuses on access to clean energy this objective will in general see tremendous support from many national and international organizations. And because the international organizations concluded that in Sub-Saharan Africa (besides small island developing states) climate change adaptation projects are most needed (a region where the EU is an extremely important donor) it can be expected that specifically the EU is another important donor in our working field. Besides these international organizations many OECD countries directly fund such projects thanks to SDG number 7. In Switzerland any project giving lasting access to clean energy sources in such a country or substituting fossil fuels there gets funded (since years). Given its size (as big as the Green Climate Fund) and that GGUSA found it promising for climate change adaptation projects in poor countries, the world bank’s Clean Technology Fund (and other climate investments funds of the multilateral development banks) have to be assessed concerning fundraising too.

9. 3. Market description: market segmentation/trend (supp- lementary information from the adopted strategic plan) Recipient market „Recipient market is very large but complicated by political instability, economical incompatibilities etc.“ Successful? Families, local communities, growing yes governments, media, private sector very much

10. 3. Market description: critical success factors (supple-mentary information from the adopted strategic plan) Critical success factors for donors High profile (visibility), media attention and influence Tangible results, and past successes that you can point to Personal relationships Enjoyable experience in previous collaborations Attractive projects like New Orleans! Psychologically seductive (solar is more attractive in every bodies mind than wind)

11. 3. Market description: critical success factors (supple-mentary information from the adopted strategic plan) Critical success factors for recipients Competence in the implementation of the program and technical expertise (leads to good project results). Education of the recipients about the management/maintenance of the infrastructure given to them. Change in policy (as promoted by the global solar report cards of Green Cross) Cost-effectiveness of the services

12. 4. Partners and competitors (supplementary information from the adopted strategic plan) GCNO Partner organizations: AR, AU, BF, BO, BR, BY, CI, DK, ES, FR, IT, JP, LK, NL, PL, PK, RO, RU, US* Future targets and plans of these GCNOs: Help foster government action (via the report card) and implement local solar, renewable and energy efficiency projects

13. 4. Partners and competitors (supplementary information from the adopted strategic plan) * Main projects: AR (promotion of energy efficient buildings and other climate protection activities), AU (youth clean energy education and video competition, see www.futuresparks.org.au), BF (irrigation systems powered by solar panels), BO (energy alternatives for economic growth, with minimal impact on conservation areas), BR (staff member Peter Irving dedicated to smart energy program, events - Mina Gerais 2008 and Rio 2012), BY (replication of RU biogas project), CI (concrete community-based smart energy demonstration project planned), DK (national software project to promote energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources in the business sector), ES (climate coalition, see www.coalitionclimat21.org), FR (events to promote the use of renewable energy sources, climate change adaptation projects in small island development states in the South Pacific), IT (irrigation systems in Senegal powered by solar panels), JP (promotion and implementation of solar streetlight projects), LK (solar park in Colombo), NL (events to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy sources), PL (promotion of renewable energy sources via events and business ratings / surveys), PK (events to promote the use of renewable energy sources), RO (energy alternatives for economic growth, with minimal impact on conservation areas), RU (biogas project), US (promotion of energy efficient buildings, behavior and use of renewable energy sources)

14. 4. Partners and competitors (supplementary information from the adopted strategic plan) Other Partner organizations: Existing partners: Vday’s City of Joy (Congo, concrete community-based solar energy demonstration project for war victims), Habitat for Humanity / Artists for Peace and Justice (Haiti, concrete community-based solar energy demonstration project for earthquake disaster victims to help increase resiliency against future electricity shortages), Empowered By Light (Zambia, concrete community-based solar energy demonstration project for reducing energy poverty), ENEA / CNTS / SAED (Senegal, irrigation systems powered by solar panels) Potential partners: energy delivery companies (which are local installers), E+CO (nonprofit organization, investor and fund manager, fundraising partner) to help increase resiliency against

15. 4. Partners and competitors (supplementary information from the adopted strategic plan) Competitors: Greenpeace (advocacy/exposure they better, we implement, they don‘t) national NGO Climate group (government relations better, we implement they don‘t) WWF (our program is more focused, but their projects are excellent) Woodrow Wilson Center – maybe also potential partner, as they are only a think-tank not a real NGO

16. 5. SWOT (supplementary information from the adopted strategic plan) Strengths Projects with concrete results and benefits Media exposure (also thanks to GCI’s prestigious climate change task force and GGUSA’s film star network) Weakness Insufficient program leadership (no comprehensive program reports with all the aforementioned projects for the Council meeting therefore, for example)

17. 5. SWOT (supplementary information from the adopted strategic plan) Opportunities Global warming awareness is exploding Even more pressure after Fukushima for global sustainable energy transition Rising energy prices Threats Political, commercial and consumer inertia until it is too late... Perception that solar and other renewable energy is too expensive and not commercially viable

18. 6. Strategy • Short term strategy: • Erika De Leener (Program Director at GGUSA) begins to coordinate the program (convenes STECO members - energy programme responsibles in the aforementioned GCNOs and GCI’s climate change task force - to plan feasible projects under the energy program). • Release Solar Report Card, raise awareness about solar energy. Present report card for instance at important international conferences (for solar power, COP). • Long term strategy (on heels of report card campaign): • Where international agreements enter into force in our working field (UNFCCC, SDGs) equipped with significant funding (GEF, Green Climate Fund) the program needs to be visible beforehand (during negotiations of the agreement to have access to decision makers, and with successful pilot projects for which usually funding is available to accelerate the agreement’s entry into force) to be in the first row concerning access to funding from these agreements.

19. 6. Strategy • Long term strategy (continued): • Consequently, the Green Cross resilience building projects (especially in countries highly vulnerable and affected by adverse climate events as Sub-Saharan Africa, rest of the least developed countries and small island developing states – GGUSA’s solar for Haiti and GCFTs projects in the South Pacific fall hereunder – but also GGUSA’s extremely successful projects holy cross in New Orleans and solar for Sandy) as well as GCBF’s large and respected projects in Sub Saharan Africa against land degradation (tree planting, sustainable agriculture) must be presented together at COP 23 in Germany (with support of GCI’s prestigious climate change task force). In connection new proposals in other eligible countries where there is a GCNO (in Ghana, Swaziland and Ivory Coast sustainable agriculture projects as implemented already by Green Cross in Senegal and Burkina Faso; in Sri Lanka increased resilience in coastal cities project as implemented already in New Orleans, New York, Haiti and the South Pacific) will be shown to potential donors (projects in Sub Saharan Africa to the EU and in addition to OECD countries particularly supportive of SDG number 7; all projects mentioned above to the GEF and UN institutions in close collaboration with the Green Climate Fund). As also Sub-Saharan very poor Zambia and Congo perfectly fit the donors criteria above (where Green Cross could already successfully reduced energy poverty) follow-up projects will be proposed there too.

20. 6. Strategy • Long term strategy (continued): • In addition the specific access of Green Cross Switzerland to the GEFwill be transferred by including the smart energy program in a GEFfinanced ESS project and the program be included in skilled consortiums for applying for grants at the European Union (successful consortiums to be found and approached probably easiest directly at the COP 23 in Germany). • Green Cross Switzerland will offer the above mentioned proposals also to the mentioned (see market description under point 3 above) Swiss donors. To these donors also the replication of Green Cross Russia’s successful biogas project in other former soviet countries will be offered for funding. • Global Green USA will similarly clarify whether all these proposals can be offered tothe world bank’s Clean Technology Fund and other climate investments funds of the multilateral development banks.

21. 6. Strategy • Long term strategy (continued): • The biogas project of Green Cross Russia and the foodwaste project of Global Green USA in the US address an important upcoming problem (methane gas emissions, a powerful greenhouse gas on the rise). On the basis of these projects and with support of the climate change task force (experts in the field) there should be a respective Green Cross appeal at COP 23 in Germany. • Once counter measures are broadly accepted Green Cross can easily (as we are already known as experts) propose further respective projects to donors.

22. 7a. Key performance indicators / milestones 1 From 2016 on planned results. 2 AR, AU, BF, BO, BR, BY, CI (from 2015 on), DK, ES, FR, IT, JP, LK, NL, PL, PK, RO, RU, US 3 Plus Congo and Zambia 4 Plus Haiti and Senegal

23. 7b. Projects / strategic actions planned for 2017

24. 7b. Projects / strategic actions planned for 2017 (continued) * Alexandra Kravetz (who did the 2008 and 2009 Solar report cards) ** Erika De Leener