Published: Dec. 20, 2006

EESI recently received two grants: one to improve their international assessment database and one to gather and report climate change proposals. EESI received an international award from the Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) to expand and refine the International Sustainable Energy Assessment (ISEA) Database. EESI is the only U.S. entity to have received major awards from REEEP. The ISEA project will supply the unmet global need for a comprehensive, systematic, and empirical (as distinct from an impressionistic) treaty implementation database. It also will expand the ISEA database to include additional international energy agreements from Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and South Africa. EESI also received a grant from the Wirth Chair at the University of Colorado in Denver to create a comprehensive report of U.S. policy proposals dealing with, or highly relevant to, climate change to be included in a President's Climate Action Plan, titled 100 Days of Climate Action: A Leadership Plan for the Next President. EESI will gather the most promising proposals for new climate change policies, programs, legislation, regulations, incentives, and agency authorities.