CCAP recently submitted its views to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC Emerging from Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, ITMOs offer new ways for countries to cooperate towards they can’t include bilateral or plurilateral exchanges between Parties, mitigation outcomes emerging from ITMOs and climate finance (or other forms of support) may interact in a way that undermines ambition the source and user country, support achievement of ambition globally, and seek synergies with other forms

NDC highlights plans to regulate carbon pollution from existing power plants, the largest domestic source Court held that Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act “speaks directly” to emissions of carbon dioxide from Power Plan are reasonable, achievable, and reflect the pre-existing trend in the power sector away from If upheld by the courts, EPA’s guidelines will achieve meaningful emissions reductions from fossil fuel-fired Ignoring successful state approaches would result in a sub-par outcome that is well shy of “best” from

pipeline: As they approved the Fund’s second round of projects, many Board members and observers voiced concerned about the volume of funding requests and the quality of proposals. of entities accredited and a potential “exclusion list” that would bar certain types of institutions from Move from projects to programs: There was broad agreement in Songdo that the GCF must go beyond one-off Yet guidelines for programs were deferred amidst concerns of how such approaches can ensure consistency

transparency provisions allow pledges to be tracked and failures to be disclosed, but beyond this “name Walking away from our pledge means walking away from our ability to influence how these sums are spent

scale up their support to developing countries, the coming years will be pivotal in helping countries convert Drawing from CCAP’s policy brief, Next Steps for Converting INDCs into Action, there are several key initiative by financing more activities that are earlier in the project cycle, including the development of concept countries the opportunity to develop a broad climate finance strategy that can help attract financing from

The event was attended by approximately 50 family offices and foundations, and featured speakers from Principal, Capricorn Investment Group CCAP was pleased co-host this forum that brought together people from

Unbelievable, really. Supreme Court had put the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) modest rule to limit carbon pollution from CCAP had convened the meeting to allow Latin American countries to share their plans for converting the Representatives from Chile talked about the country’s goal of reaching 20 percent renewable power by So while our political national discourse may not reflect this reality, the world is moving forward to

Some of the key takeaways from the meeting are as follows: Clean Power Plan (CPP) compliance costs may Without the nuclear generation, current customers served by the nuclear power would need to buy power from system that values the specific benefits of DER can support a level playing field across distributed and conventional

Regional Dialogue, which brought together high-level developing country policy makers with representatives from Our paper on Converting INDCs into Action analyzed the INDCs from key developing countries. What we heard from our LAC partners affirms this analysis. Targeted support of the work by individual countries to convert their INDC’s into concrete measures, developing and developed countries and funding institutions to build a shared vision for how to make this a reality

this discussion, CCAP has partnered with the World Resources Institute and Sierra Club, with inputs from

administrations issued a joint statement that highlighted common goals to reduce methane emissions from In particular, the U.S. committed to begin immediately to develop regulations for methane emissions from In 2015, annual electricity production from natural gas was nearly on par with production from coal, Deployment of cost-effective solutions to mitigate methane emissions from oil and gas operations can In fact, best practices towards methane mitigation have started to emerge from the experiences of U.S

International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the number of countries using renewables auctions increased from auction not only evaluates projects on the basis of price, but also on the basis of job creation, local content