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Video: Spurring Sustainable Development through NAMAs

CCAP explains pro-development, pro-environmental initiatives in renewables, waste and transportation in Colombia and Chile in a newly released video. On the ground projects that spur sustainable development, decrease emissions and reduce poverty through catalytic finance and policy assistance. Watch Video »

Moving to the Green Economy

Mitigating Climate Change is an Opportunity for Growth
NAMAs can reduce GHG emissions through sectoral policy changes. This presents opportunities for developing countries to engage in low-carbon sustainable development, which contributes to reducing poverty, and providing health, mobility and quality of life benefits to citizens. MORE »

Video: Reducing Methane in Colombia’s Waste Sector

CCAP’s program to mitigate methane emissions in Colombia is a leading example of an evolving climate policy that benefits the environment as well as local businesses. Working toward a nationally appropriate mitigation action (NAMA), the initiative utilizes financial mechanisms from developed nations. Watch Video »

Global NAMA Financing Summit

CCAP and the Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Building will hold a Global NAMA Financing Summit in Copenhagen from May 15-17. The event will convene high-level representatives from developing countries and key contributing countries, along with private-sector investors, and other financial institutions, with the goal of encouraging financing for the implementation of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs). MORE »

The New Deal

CCAP-Europe Director Tomas Wyns outlines his new report in Carbon Finance, arguing the EU ETS could be the catalyst for long-term economic growth and significant innovation in the European manufacturing sector, if reforms are undertaken. The report puts forward seven measures to mitigate the surplus of EU allowances in the system and align the EU ETS caps with the long-term EU climate goal to reduce emissions by 80-95 percent by 2050. MORE »

Reducing Methane in Colombia's Waste Sector

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Climate Mitigation in 2013: Fallow Ground or Transformational Change?

The Doha climate change conference marked the end of a major negotiation cycle and the start of a new one. Parties are proceeding with two workstreams: one to deliver a new legal agreement by 2015 to take effect from 2020, and the other to enhance mitigation ambitions. Alongside implementing a second Kyoto commitment period, parties are working to achieve pledges under the convention, operationalize the Green Climate Fund and the Technology Mechanism, develop a new market-based mechanism and establish institutional arrangements on loss and damage. Without a clear pathway to the 2015 agreement, it appears likely that the next year of international negotiations will be one of regrouping, coupled with a fermentation of new ideas as Parties seek a comprehensive legal approach. continue reading »

Global NAMA Financing Summit
CCAP and the Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Building will hold a Global NAMA Financing Summit in Copenhagen from May 15-17. The event will convene high-level representatives from developing countries and key contributing countries, along with private-sector investors, and other financial institutions, with the goal of encouraging financing for the implementation of Nationally Appropriate... continue reading »
Future of EU Emissions Trading Scheme Hangs in Balance
After a failed backloading vote, CCAP-Europe Director Tomas Wyns discusses the potential impact a second vote could have on the future of the EU ETS.

The Role of NAMAs Explained in One Picture

Coinciding with the Global NAMA Financing Summit, CCAP released An Emerging Architecture for NAMA Finance, which describes how nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) can drive climate mitigation in developing countries. continue reading »