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CCAP's mission is to support every step of climate action, from ambition to implementation. A recognized world leader in climate policy and action, CCAP creates innovative, replicable climate solutions, strengthens capacities, and promotes best practices across the local, national, and international levels to accelerate the transition to a net-zero, climate resilient future.


We Can Have Reliable Energy and a Clean Environment
The much anticipated Department of Energy (DOE) Staff Report to the Secretary on Electricity Markets and Reliability confirms that recent...
Stacey Davis
Aug 29, 2017


CCAP Continues Work to Reduce Methane Emissions in the Mexican Oil and Gas Sector
As part of the oil and gas regulatory support project, CCAP and the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) organized a workshop on Regulatory...
Stacey Davis
Aug 16, 2017


CCAP’s Waste Program launches work with the Municipality of Quito, Ecuador
CCAP’s Waste Program officially launched work with the Municipality of Quito, Ecuador, in July 2017. The overarching goal of this work is...
Brooks Shaffer
Aug 15, 2017


California's AB 617: A New Frontier in Air Quality Management... If Funded.
Last week, Governor Brown signed AB 617 —a law relating to criteria air pollutants and toxic air contaminants from sources other than vehicles. This new law, which passed alongside AB 398 extending California’s cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gas emissions, has the potential to make meaningful progress in reducing air pollution impacting disadvantaged communities and improving health outcomes. Rather than relying on greenhouse gas requirements to yield air quality impro
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Aug 1, 2017


The Paris Agreement - You Can Pull Out, You Can Ignore It, But Here's What You Can't Do
US President Donald Trump has made it clear that he is no fan of the Paris Agreement. After all Candidate Trump repeatedly stated he...
Paolo Cozzi
Apr 16, 2017


CCAP Expanding Waste Program Through Deepening Partnership with CCAC
Building on its experience developing Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions for the waste sector in Chile, Colombia and Peru, CCAP is deepening its partnership with the Climate and Clean Air Coalition’s (CCAC) Municipal Solid Waste Initiative (MSWI) and expanding the impact of its waste program to new countries and cities through several activities described below. Together with CCAC, CCAP is launching the first Latin American Regional Waste Network, comprised of cities f
Brooks Shaffer
Mar 28, 2017


Supporting a Peruvian Energy Transition through Distributed Generation
On February 23, 2017, CCAP and Peruvian non-profit Libélula co-organized a workshop on distributed generation in Peru, hosted by the...
Paolo Cozzi
Mar 20, 2017


Transforming the Energy Sector in the Philippines
The Philippines program, Enabling Distributed Solar Power in the Philippines, was preliminarily selected for funding by the NAMA Facility...
Stan Kolar
Mar 9, 2017


Transformation Ahead: Colombia TOD NAMA
Implementation is on track for the Colombia Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) NAMA, funded by the NAMA Facility, with financial support...
Steve Winkelman
Feb 23, 2017


The Green Climate Fund – Making the Case to Trump Voters
My in-laws live in a small town in Northeast Ohio that could serve as the set for a documentary on the decline of manufacturing in the...
Bill Tyndall
Feb 6, 2017


Are Transport NAMAs the Key to NDCs?
Transport mitigation actions can be complicated, and their effects are notoriously hard to measure. Successful transport Nationally...
Chuck Kooshian
Nov 16, 2016


Continuing the Fight for Climate and Clean Energy
The election of Donald Trump has profoundly altered the political landscape on clean energy and climate in the United States. We have...
Bill Tyndall
Nov 10, 2016


The Paris Agreement Enters into Force!
Today, the world celebrates the Paris Agreement’s entry into force. No other multilateral treaty has had the momentum that Paris had....
CCAP
Nov 3, 2016


CCAP Applauds the Kigali Agreement to Reduce HFCs
This weekend, more than 190 countries adopted an amendment to the 1989 Montreal Protocol in Kigali, Rwanda, to reduce global levels of...
Bill Tyndall
Oct 17, 2016


Impact Opportunities in Clean Energy
CCAP, in collaboration with the impact investment firm, The Alberleen Group, recently hosted a forum on Impact Opportunities in Clean...
Bill Tyndall
Oct 15, 2016


Driving Climate Ambition Through UNFCCC Rulemaking
The landmark Paris Agreement represents a fundamental shift in the landscape of international climate policy and diplomacy. The Agreement...
Paolo Cozzi
Oct 5, 2016


Transfers in the Paris Agreement: Can they enable greater ambition?
CCAP recently submitted its views to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) regarding some of the issues that...
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Oct 4, 2016


How NAMAs Can Make Projects Bankable
Achieving national climate goals under the Paris Agreement will require substantial low-carbon, climate-resilient investment— and most of...
Leila Yim Surratt
Sep 29, 2016


From Concept to Reality: Colombia TOD NAMA Moving to Implementation
The Colombia Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) NAMA, a concept that was conceived in 2011 and preliminarily selected by the NAMA...
Steve Winkelman
Sep 27, 2016


The DC Circuit Court Should Uphold the Clean Power Plan
Today a federal appeals court heard arguments on the cornerstone of the U.S. nationally determined contribution Near-term global climate...
Stacey Davis
Sep 26, 2016
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