Grants - State Environmental Initiative

The initiative enables the long-term transfer of U.S. environmental experience, technology, and practice to targeted Asian countries by matching appropriate U.S. technologies and state regulatory and environmental experience to Asian interests in environmental solutions.

What are the initiative’s specific goals?

How are these goals accomplished?

The CSG State Environmental Initiative fosters the export of U.S. environmental solutions and experience by:

How does the grants program work?

Each year, the CSG State Environmental Initiative solicits proposals for United States-Asian partnerships by distributing a Call for Proposals to all state governments. State environmental agencies, pollution prevention offices, economic development agencies, and/or export trade offices are encouraged to collaborate with each other, with environmental technology firms in their state, and with their proposed Asian partner in developing the proposal.

In addition to the state agencies, successful grant proposals draw on multiple resources, such as nongovernmental organizations, university research and development projects for environmental technologies, private sector firms specializing in environmental technologies and services, and existing public/private partnerships for environmental protection. Funded projects are expected to address the entire enabling process, including issues of policy, technology and infrastructure, research, community involvement, culture, investment, and implementation.

All applicants that request and receive funding, regardless of the amount, must match the grant funds with a 3:1, 2:1, or 1:1 match. The match ratio depends on the development status of the country proposed as a partner.

About the sponsoring and implementing organizations:

The Council of State Governments is a nonpartisan, multi-branch organization of U.S. states and territories that fosters excellence in state government by working with state leaders across the nation and through its regions to put the best ideas and solutions to problems into practice. To this end, CSG builds leadership skills to improve decision making, advocates multi-state problem solving and partnerships, interprets changing national and international conditions to prepare states for the future, and promotes the sovereignty of the states and their role in the U.S. federal system.

For more information, please contact:

Council of State Governments
3560 Iron Works Pike
P.O. Box 11910
Lexington, KY 40578-1910

+1 (859) 244-8000 - Voice
+1 (859) 244-8001 - Fax