to support the international travel in 1999 and 2000 by American and Russian participants in a project organized by the Center for Russian Environmental Policy in Moscow on regional training in environmental policy planning and implementation.

to provide support in 1998 for the exchange of Russian and American scientists engaged in research activities associated with the preservation of the Veprinstev Phonoteka of Animal Voices of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

to enable environmental experts from Russia, Hungary, and the United States to attend a workshop organized by Duke University and the Russian Academy of Sciences entitled The Caspian Sea: A Quest for Environmental Security in 1999.

to support the exchange in 1999 of specialists from the Institute’s Center for Safe Energy and from the Center for Nuclear Ecology and Energy Policy in Moscow engaged in issues relating to environmental risks associated with nuclear energy.

to support participation by American and Russian environmental experts in a conference in Moscow in 1999 entitled Chemical Weapons Destruction: Opportunities for Regional Development and Civil Society.

to enable American environmental specialists to travel to Russia in summer 1998 to conclude the final stage of a multiyear project on land use and sustainable development in the Altai Republic.

to support international travel and related expenses involved in the Center’s internship and GIS training programs in Russia and in Eastern and Central Europe in 1998.

to provide support in 1998 for EDF’s work with the Polish Foundation for Energy Efficiency in Warsaw on developing plans to integrate renewable resources of power into Poland’s energy program.

to enable a lawyer and a scientist from the environmental advocacy organization Ecopravo’s offices in Kharkiv and Lviv, Ukraine, to participate in E-LAW’s Working Exchange Fellowship Program in fall 1998.

to enable public interest environmental advocates from Russia, Ukraine, and other countries in Eastern and Central Europe to attend a conference in Monterey, California, in fall 1998 on the enforcement of environmental regulations.

to enable a team of specialists to travel to Russia in 1999 to meet with local leaders among the Keto, Shorets, and Udege communities to discuss development and environmental issues in connection with a project entitled First Peoples Worldwide Native American-Siberia Indigenous Cultural and Environmental Exchange.

to support international travel and related activities in 1998 of American and Eastern and Central European participants in activities of the Environmental Partnership for Central Europe.

to enable Russian and American environmental experts to participate in conferences in Russia and the United States in 1998 on issues related to the safe destruction of chemical weapons and toxic materials.

to support international travel by Russian and American environmental specialists participating in workshops in 1998 held in connection with the project entitledRussian Ecological Hotspots.

to enable Russian environmental activists to participate in a training and internship program in the United States in 1999 in connection with a project entitled Uniting to Reduce Persistent Organic Pollutants in Human Beings and the Environment.

to support international travel in 1999 by experts involved in a project promoting energy efficiency in the Russian construction sector organized in collaboration with the Center for Energy Efficiency in Moscow, the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C., and the Research Institute for Buildings Physics in Moscow.

to enable Ukrainian and Polish participants in ISC’s Community-Based Environmental Education Project in Western Ukraine to undertake a study tour of environmental organizations in the United States in 1998.

to enable environmental specialists from Russia to travel to the United States in 1998 in connection with the Nizhnii Tagil Solid Waste Management Project.

to enable Russian environmentalists from the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology in Yekaterinburg to participate in an international workshop in 1999 entitled The Human Role in Reindeer/Caribou Systems.

to provide assistance, including support from TMU’s Paulette Rosselet Travel Fund, to enable women environmental activists from Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine to meet with colleagues and participate in training workshops in the United States in summer 1998 in connection with ISAR’s Grassroots Cooperation Project.

to support the exchange in summer 1998 of environmental educators from the United States and the Russian Far East as part of an effort to promote the development of outdoor environmental education centers in Russia.

to enable American environmental activists and experts to visit Russia to provide training in organizing citizen advisory commissions at chemical weapons sites and to participate in a workshop in Moscow in 1999 as part of the U.S.-Russian Cooperation Project in the Safe Disposal of Chemical Weapons.

to enable scientists from Eastern and Central Europe and Russia to participate in the XVI International Botanical Congress at the Garden in summer 1999.

to support American participation in a trilateral meeting of environmental specialists from Russia, China, and the United States held in Khabarovsk in 1998 in connection with the Ussuri River Watershed Land Use Allocation Project.

to enable Russian environmental scientists to participate in workshops in Anchorage and in Kamchatka in 1999 as part of a collaborative biodiversity assessment of the Bering Sea prepared in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund.

to enable American environmental lawyers to participate in a conference in Szentendre, Hungary, in fall 1998 on public participation in environmental decision-making organized in collaboration with the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe in Budapest and Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C.

to enable American environmental activists and specialists to conduct seminars and workshops in 1999 in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and Russia on citizen advocacy for sustainable energy solutions.

to support international travel in 1998-1999 by environmental specialists from the United States and Russia participating in a project entitled Protecting Natural Resources in Siberia and the Russian Far East: A Series of Four Exchanges Focusing on Fisheries, Oil and Gas, Mining, and Forests.

to enable the mayor of Severodvinsk and the director of the Zvezdochka shipyard IN Russia to visit Portsmouth in 1999 in connection with efforts to develop a cooperative agreement regarding issues of environmental protection and public health.

to enable QLF’s Atlantic Center for the Environment to extend its Central European Stewardship Program to include activities in Poland in 1999-2000 and to conduct an assessment of its previous work in the region.

to support international travel by Russian and American environmental lawyers and specialists participating in a bilateral exchange project entitled Continuing Legal Education and Exchange: Environmental Advocacy and Enforcement in Russia in 1998.

to enable Hungarian environmental specialists selected by the Environmental Partnership Foundation in Hungary to take part in leadership training programs in the United States and to be in residence at American NGOs in 1999 in connection with a project entitled Integrated Organizational Development for Sustainability.

to enable environmental specialists from Ukraine, Moldova, and Mongolia to participate in an exchange program organized by the Tahoe-Baikal Institute in summer 1998.

to enable American environmental professionals to travel to Eastern and Central Europe in 1998-99 in connection with a training project entitled Strengthening Executive Education for Environmentally Sound Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe.

to provide support for the international travel of Russian and American participants engaged in collecting data in 1999 in connection with the publication of the Pacific Wild Salmon Report.