CCAP-Europe
Global Sectoral Approaches as Part of the Post - 2012 Framework
The European Commission has awarded a $3million grant to an international consortium led by the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) – Europe together with its partners: the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels; the Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI), Paris; the Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftforschung (ZEW), Mannheim – Germany; and Climate Change Capital (CCC), London.
CCAP-Europe is a nonprofit association in Brussels supported by the staff and expertise of its sister organization, the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP), headquartered in Washington, D.C. With this grant, its work will focus on “sectoral approaches” to reduce GHG emissions, which the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted as part of the Bali Roadmap at its December 2007 international climate change negotiations.
This project’s main objective is to explore actions necessary for sectoral approaches to become a tool in the mitigation of GHG emissions and in necessary links to the global carbon market.
Work Plan Elements include:
- Quantitative analysis and capacity building;
- Modeling benefits of sectoral approaches; and
- Policy element to determine what is needed to make the sectoral approaches operational as part of a post-2012 climate framework.
This work will consist of both a country-specific dimension with studies and workshops being carried out in China, India, Brazil and Mexico with a focus on the electric power, aluminium, cement, and iron and steel sectors. It will contain a transnational dimension looking at industry sectors in global context. Other industries and/ or projects are encouraged to make contact and collaborate with the study team.Interim results were released at COP 14 in Poznan, Poland and final results will be available prior to COP 15 in 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
For more information, please visit www.ccapeurope.org.
