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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...
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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...
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
Workshop Supports Information Exchange for Methane Mitigation in Mexico’s Oil and Gas Sectors
At a well-attended workshop earlier this month in Mexico City on Regulatory Options for Methane Mitigation in Mexico’s Oil and Gas...
Stacey Davis
Sep 21, 2016
U.S. and China Joining the Paris Agreement Sends a Strong Signal to Developing Countries
On Saturday, the U.S. and China formally joined the Paris Agreement by delivering their official instruments of ratification to United...
Bill Tyndall
Sep 7, 2016
Building the Plane as We Fly It: Progress and Next Steps for an Effective Green Climate Fund
“We are building the plane as we fly it.” This is a phrase often repeated by GCF Board members Leonardo Martinez of the U.S. and Tosi...
Paolo Cozzi
Aug 8, 2016
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