...olombia and Chile have such sustainable-development policies in place and are looking to go further. These countries want to build on the momentum and government leadership that has already been established for these home-grown, anti-air-pollution, pro-business programs. The Copenhagen summit will put together a very large group of donors and NAMA developers who will talk about implementing these promising policies.” ***... continue reading »
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CCAP at Durban
...s. During the COP negotiations CCAP hosted several events promoting more on-the-ground action and private sector investment in developing countries to reach emissions reductions pledges. Actions Policy Dialogue Breakfast Saturday, Dec. 3, 07:30 – 09:45 CCAP and the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment will host a policy dialogue to discuss the private sector and the Green Climate Fund. The breakfast will provide a space for senior nego... continue reading »
Pro-Business, Pro-Environment Programs to be Aired in Copenhagen
...worst. “The Copenhagen summit is a vital step in the development of these home-grown, anti-air-pollution, pro-business programs called NAMAs,” said Helme, whose organization has been instrumental in promoting them. “Several developing countries like Colombia and Chile already have such sustainable-development policies in place and are looking to go that next step. These countries want to build on the momentum and government leadership that has al... continue reading »
CCAP Hosts Fourth Latin American Regional MAIN Dialogue
Contact: Star Dodd, Communications Director sdodd@ccap.org 202-621-5665 CCAP Hosts Fourth Latin American Regional MAIN Dialogue PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic – Developing climate change mitigation actions and determining ambitious policy strategies will be a key focus of the Center for Clean Air Policy’s upcoming dialogue. CCAP’s fourth Latin American regional dialogue of the Mitigation Action Implementation Network (MAIN) will take place from O... continue reading »
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Climate Finance Works in Nepal
...ves, and 9,000 small solar home photovoltaic systems. It commissioned 2.5 MW from micro-hydropower plants, which provided electricity to 63,000 households. ESAP II also assisted on the policy level and helped the government of Nepal build a subsidy policy for alternative energy systems. According to NORAD estimates, the micro-hydropower plants reduced CO2e emissions by about 5,000 tonnes per year.... continue reading »
New Report Highlights Success Of European Climate Finance
...contributing countries together with NAMA developers to foster development and finance of NAMAs that meet the needs of all parties. “This report demonstrates how European Member States have maintained momentum in delivering climate finance to developing countries around the world,” CCAP-Europe Director Tomas Wyns said. “The success stories outlined in ‘Climate Finance Works’ not only help to reduce emissions, but also provide social and economic g... continue reading »
Sustainable DC Plan Targets Emissions and Climate Resilience
...issues at the local, national and international levels. It is an independent non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. that helps policymakers around the world to develop, promote and implement innovative solutions to major climate, air quality and energy problems. With on-the-ground policy and research activities across the U.S. and around the globe, CCAP is developing pragmatic solutions that balance both environmental and econo... continue reading »
The Municipality of Santiago de Cali Signs International Cooperation Agreement in the Solid Waste Sector
...SANTIAGO DE CALI, COLOMBIA – The Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP), a non-governmental organization based in Washington D.C., and the Municipality of Santiago de Cali, through the Administrative Department of Environmental Management (DAGMA) have signed an agreement for public private partnership for the elaboration of a feasibility study in Santiago de Cali for the design of an integrated solid waste management project in Colombia, which would... continue reading »
Proper Management of Methane in Developing Countries Essential to International Climate Policy
...is an independent non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. that helps policymakers around the world to develop, promote and implement innovative solutions to major climate, air quality and energy problems. With on-the-ground policy and research activities across the U.S. and around the globe, CCAP is developing pragmatic solutions that balance both environmental and economic interests. For more information about CCAP, please visi... continue reading »
Climate Change Programs Like Colombia’s Transit Initiative to be Unveiled in Copenhagen this Week
...Nations Meet to Advance Home Grown Ideas WASHINGTON, D.C., May 13, 2013 – The government of Colombia will present an innovative transit hub program at the CCAP Global NAMA Financing Summit in Copenhagen this week to senior representatives from developing countries and international financial institutions. The Colombia program is one of dozens of so-called NAMAs, nationally appropriate mitigation actions, which will be spotlighted at the summit be... continue reading »
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Now is the time to get all bets on the table
...that our reduction efforts are comparable to everyone else’s. Despite all the theatrics emanating from Copenhagen in recent days, negotiators are making progress, albeit more slowly than anyone would like. But the stakes are high and now is not the time to be on tilt. Each nation must demonstrate leadership by not only taking bold actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but setting the bar high for accurate, transparent reporting and review. N... continue reading »
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Financial Advisers are Key Players in Early NAMA Design
...ng groups is to ultimately produce NAMA financial mechanisms that have host-government support, donor acceptance, and financial credibility. CCAP has highly qualified legal/financial experts on our team with extensive experience in designing financial programs that successful utilize donor resources to leverage private sector financing of clean energy projects. Within CCAP’s MAIN program, we are currently working with several countries on the desi... continue reading »
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Extreme Weather Trends, Climate Science, and Public Opinion
...ion of climate change. What does the Public think? Despite some variations over the last 5 years, approximately two thirds of Americans think that climate change is occurring (Figure 1) according to recent surveys from Gallup (52%), Pew (63%), Brookings (65%), Yale (66%), and Stanford (73%). A recent Stanford/Reuters/Ipsos survey found that of those respondents who believe that global warming is happening, 72% believe it is either mostly or partly... continue reading »
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Chilean Energy Strategy: A Positive Step Forward Toward A Sustainable Energy Sector
...(http://www.minenergia.cl/documentos/estudios/resumen-ejecutivo-del-informe-de-la.html) of the challenges of the energy sector, and so this strategy includes the vision of different stakeholders, which is valuable and important to validate a plan like this. The strategy is founded on six pillars: the promotion of energy efficiency as a priority public policy to reduce energy consumption and decouple energy from economic growth increase the partici... continue reading »
Environment Canada Partners With Ccap To Help Latin American Nations To Reduce Ghgs From Landfills And Wastewater Treatment Facilities
WASHINGTON, DC – Recognizing the importance of supporting localized, on-the-ground actions to reduce climate threatening emissions in developing countries, Environment Canada has provided funding to the Center for Clean Air Policy(CCAP) to facilitate the development of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) involving landfill gas and waste management in Latin American countries. Methane gas released during the waste management process... continue reading »
New Report Finds Urban Growth Strategies Provide Economic Benefits and Improve Quality of Life
...come increased by only 25 percent. Thus, the experience for most Americans over the last 40 years was one of driving substantially more but not sharing proportionately in income growth. The report also examines how reducing “empty miles,” driving that contributes little or nothing to the economy, will help meet climate protection goals while also yielding positive economic impacts. Communities that are realizing the economic benefits of smart grow... continue reading »
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Calling on President Obama to Fulfill his Promise to Lead on Climate Change
...astrophic events as well as the more persistent effects of climate change. The post-partisan collaboration that continues in the wake of Hurricane Sandy affords an opportunity to forge broader bipartisan collaboration towards these ends. Play a more constructive role in forging a pathway to a future international agreement that would commit all major emitters to binding action. Critical to this is maintaining and renewing the US commitment to prov... continue reading »
COP16 Agreement Lays Groundwork for Delivery of Future Success
...is an independent non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. that helps policymakers around the world to develop, promote and implement innovative solutions to major climate, air quality and energy problems. With on-the-ground policy and research activities across the U.S. and around the globe, CCAP is developing pragmatic solutions that balance both environmental and economic interests. For more information about CCAP, please visi... continue reading »
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Fast-start Finance: One more year to go
COP-17 marks the two-year point of the Fast-Start Finance period which was conceived out of the Copenhagen climate talks. Developed countries made the collective commitment to “provide new and additional resources, including forestry and investments through international institutions, approaching USD 30 billion for the period 2010–2012.” There is also recognition for a balanced approach between adaptation and mitigation initiatives. Since there i... continue reading »
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We were all his students – In Memory of Lee Schipper
...nny transport photos, including his signature green car? I got to know Lee over the past decade through wonky work on improving transportation data, sustainable transport research and numerous climate policy dialogues. While I was not one of his closest colleagues, he treated me with tremendous warmth and was generous with his time. Wherever he did roam, no matter the hour, Lee was always happy to help with a research question, provide a lead on a... continue reading »
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Weathering Transportation Sector Climate Risks
...ion on local, non-climate factors – such as infrastructure elevation, state-of-repair, soil saturation and tide levels – is as important as climate science information. The Federal government should enhance research on the costs and benefits of climate change preparedness measures. Key recommendations for federal agencies include: Update flood maps taking climate change scenarios into account. Provide technical assistance to help transportation pr... continue reading »
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EPA Uses Flexible Approach in Setting GHG Standard for New Fossil-Fuel-Fired Power Plants
...urce Performance Standards for greenhouse gas emissions from certain fossil-fuel-fired power plants ensures new power generation will be at least as clean as new natural gas combined cycle plants. Specifically, EPA is proposing that new fossil‐fuel‐fired power plants meet an output‐based standard of 1,000 pounds of CO2 per megawatt‐hour (lb CO2/MWh). As any new electricity capacity would be expected to last for at least forty years, this standard... continue reading »
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Conectando los Puntos: Sinergias Entre la Adaptacion y la Mitigacion
...ntera en esta área, al igual que el ( Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety ) con su programa Fortified . Véanse, asimismo, los informes del Equipo de Trabajo sobre Resiliencia en la Construcción de la Municipalidad de Nueva York . Protección del transporte público. Tal como demostró Steve Winkelman en el Centro del Sistema Nacional de Transporte ( Volpe National Transportation System Center ), los sistemas de prevención de inundación p... continue reading »
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Connecting the Dots: Adaptation + Mitigation Synergies
...t, and helps communities and water utilities prepare for droughts. State-of-the-art wastewater treatment facilities in King County, Washington and Clayton County, Georgia are saving money, reducing GHGs and enhancing climate resilience. Connecting Adaptation and Mitigation efforts can be thought of as a continuum. The Connect-the-Dots process can start from either an adaptation or mitigation measure, or can result from Asking the Climate Question... continue reading »
U.K. and Germany Launch Seed Money Effort for Pro-Development Environmental Programs
...hborhoods and path-breaking solid waste policies that will finance state-of-the-art waste reduction investments in Colombia. The Germany-U.K. regulations can be found here. CCAP’s new video provides a developing-country perspective on NAMAs, and Helme’s op-ed for The Energy Daily explains the huge potential of NAMAs. For more information about these win-win policy solutions, check out CCAP’s blog. If you wish to discuss the Germany-U.K. NAMA Facil... continue reading »
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Advancing a Shared Vision on Effective NAMAs and Finance
...cedents are ambitious and unassailable), encourage expanded funding, shape the design of the evolving GCF, and later help advance the UNFCCC negotiations. Contributing countries that disburse climate finance have traditionally been most interested in seeing significant and well-documented emissions reductions, maximization of investment impact, and accountability. Developing countries have long been interested in these funds supporting efforts tha... continue reading »
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Advancing Smart Greenhouse Gas Standards for Existing Power Plants under the Clean Air Act
...standard resulting from EPA’s guidance. Similarly, states with existing cap-and-trade programs should be able to apply emissions reductions achieved through this mechanism towards their compliance if they can show that the reductions would be equivalent to what EPA requires. Finally, a flexible path can create opportunities for economic development. In particular, combined heat and power (CHP) technology—where heat and power are produced together... continue reading »
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Chilean Government Takes Great Step Forward in Climate Mitigation with Unilateral Renewable Energy NAMA
...nt levels. Preparing for this increased demand, Chile took several actions over the past few years to promote renewable energy deployment. A Renewable Portfolio Standard Law, which requires 10 percent of energy sold to come from renewable sources by 2024 is now in place, along with several programs from the Chilean development agency, CORFO, to promote renewables, including soft loans, financing for pre-investment studies, and subsidies for the in... continue reading »
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Has British Columbia Shown the Way?
...re not subject to a carbon price) has been an issue for the cement sector. The BC government is evaluating options to limit impacts on the competitiveness of these industries. As a province, BC does not have the option to enact border adjustments. Instead, BC is looking at ways to tax the product (e.g., through the cement blender) rather than the carbon content of the fuels purchased, so that cement imports would be treated equally to cement produ... continue reading »
New CCAP Reports Find Local Climate Adaptation and Green Infrastructure Efforts Enhance Resilience and Economic Performance
...marizes the main findings on advancing local climate adaptation discovered over the course of CCAP’s Urban Leaders Adaptation Initiative. This partnership with government leaders from ten cities and counties served to empower local communities to develop and implement climate resilient strategies. The project aimed to catalyze climate adaptation at the local level, spread adaptation best practices from partners to other local and professional comm... continue reading »
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Mexican General Law on Climate Change Serves as a Model for Mitigation and on-the-Ground Action
...ng countries that also strive to address their climate change issues via on-the-ground action. In the Senate, the bill was approved 76-2 (with 5 abstentions) and on March 29, the Environment Commission of the Chamber of Deputies voted on the bill – another step closer to its approval. The law aims to: Establish an inter-ministerial Commission on Climate Change Create a climate fund to collect and channel resources for climate change initiatives to... continue reading »
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International Climate Mitigation in 2013: Fallow Ground or Transformational Change?
...ust 2013. (See https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/information-about-the-nationally-appropriate-mitigation-actions-nama-facility.) …so we just need to bring it all together. What we need now is a way to accelerate the matching of promising NAMA concepts with enabling investment flows. The Center for Clean Air Policy is responding to this need by organizing a Global NAMA Financing Summit in Copenhagen on 15-17 May 2013. Developing countries... continue reading »
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The Potential Contribution of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in a 2015 Climate Agreement
...both significant emissions reductions and national development priorities. Over the past year CCAP has been working with a group of developing countries and developed country donors to develop such vision of what ambitious and transformational NAMAs could be. Under this shared vision, NAMAs should strive to be sector-wide rather than project-based and couple policy and financial instruments to reduce key barriers to deploying low-carbon solutions.... continue reading »
Statement from Ned Helme in Preparation for UN’s Conference on Climate Change
...at causes climate change. They will also provide examples of the kind of on-the-ground actions that the GCF should support and that climate negotiators can build on as the basis for the next climate agreement in 2015. ### Since 1985, the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) has been a recognized world leader in climate and air quality policy and is the only independent, nonprofit think tank working exclusively on those issues at the local, U.S. nati... continue reading »
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Building Partnerships to Reduce Emissions from the Municipal Solid Waste Sector
...Stockholm to Vina de Mar. The Chilean Ministry of Environment aims to scale-up the successes of Vina del Mar’s experience, and will create guidelines that facilitate the replication of similar initiatives across the country. These efforts will complement the national NAMA and together shift Chile’s waste sector onto a low carbon trajectory over the long-term. Finally, the work conducted through the NAMA as well as the city-level efforts supported... continue reading »
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CCAP Submissions to the UNFCCC
...actions in developing countries. CCAP recently made two submissions to the UNFCCC discussing how a core vision for transformational NAMAs can be operationalized in the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the role NAMAs can play in contributing to a 2015 climate agreement.... continue reading »
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CCAP Supports the STRONG Act to Strengthen Resiliency against Extreme Weather
...optimize government resources and funding by coordinating federal efforts. Over the last two years, the U.S. has experienced twice the average frequency of record extremes in temperature, precipitation, drought, and tropical cyclones (NOAA). And the price tag from Sandy seems to keep rising. With the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, legislation that bolsters community and economic resilience will become even more imperative. By prov... continue reading »
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Prevailing Winds: How the Mexican Government Harnessed its Renewable Energy
...ctric utility to private sector participation in wind energy. For example, the government was able to require full-scale demonstration projects, adjust the rules for private sector access and developed a new “open season” bidding system to facilitate finance of new transmission. Thanks to these and other policy changes and new incentives for renewable energy that were established in the last decade, the average time to develop new wind projects in... continue reading »
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Fourth Latin American Regional MAIN Dialogue
...e in a breakout session on designing successful NAMAs informed by CCAP’s on-the-ground work in the waste sector. Finally, CCAP’s Michael Comstock will present on potential criteria to be used in selecting NAMAs for financial support, in order to advance a shared vision between developing countries and contributing countries on what constitutes an effective and financeable NAMA. The MAIN initiative is undertaken with generous support from Environme... continue reading »
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Large Scale Infrastructure to Protect against Flooding and Sea Level Rise, images from UK Environment Agency
...ding and sea level rise. Many great examples come from current projects in the Netherlands; roughly two-thirds of its area is currently vulnerable to flooding, while the country is among the most densely populated on Earth. Note large-scale infrastructure adaptation techniques may not be appropriate for many communities; even when deployed, these techniques should be coupled with other measures such as green infrastructure that reduce stormwater r... continue reading »
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Electric Utilities and Climate Resilience in the Toronto Region
...r in climate adaptation and is embedding climate change adaptation into day-to-day risk management processes. The Gulf Coast electric utility, Entergy, is assessing vulnerabilities to its assets, operations, customers and employees to extreme weather and climate change impacts, with $50 billion identified in investments that would avert $135 billion in losses from extreme weather. Entergy is in regular discussions with major customers to assess th... continue reading »
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NAMA Funding Available through Germany-UK NAMA Facility
...for NAMA proposals opened in July and will run through September 2, 2013. Over the last two years, developing countries have made significant progress in developing NAMAs. CCAP has worked with developed and developing countries to create a shared vision for NAMAs and the role they can play in achieving climate mitigation and sustainable development goals. CCAP has worked closely with a number of developing countries to structure specific NAMAs in... continue reading »
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NAMAs: Opportunity Knocking
...ossible climate change pathways toward 2020. The first delays meaningful on-the-ground action and places needed stabilization scenarios virtually out of reach. The second focuses international investment resources to enable low carbon development policies and actions in the near-term, improving quality of life while avoiding the worst climate change impacts. The second pathway requires sustained policy change in key sectors supported by significan... continue reading »
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Climate Finance Works in Bangladesh
...at Farida Begum makes tea and serves local snacks to her patrons at the tea-cum-small restaurant she runs with her husband. With electricity generated by the solar panels, she can keep her small restaurant open even during the evenings and till late at night. Her business is booming, and her family lives much more comfortably with their increased income, she said. Begum also has electricity, generated by solar panels, at her home. Her children can... continue reading »
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Wind Preparedness, Floods and Storm Surge, courtesy of Steve Weinstein at Renaissance Reinsurance
...hored in the earth, the structure rests on the ground and is fastened to 15-foot-long mooring posts with sliding rings, allowing it to float upwards in times of flood. All the electrical cables, water and sewage flow through flexible pipes inside the mooring piles. This post is part of CCAP’s blog series, “What Does Climate Resilience Look Like,” which highlights adaptation images from around the world addressing a variety of climate impacts and r... continue reading »
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Inspiring Sessions and Real Actions: Reflections on MAIN- Bogota Dialogue
...the policy actions being developed on the ground by the country teams. Take-home messages included: “Involve the financiers and private-sector players early in the design process so proposed NAMAs win financing support ” “There are multiple financing options – pick one that fits your situation ” “International dollars need to ensure that the underlying project or program can produce competitive returns for investors” Some participants worried that... continue reading »
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Whither Copenhagen?
...the final key sticking points in that document. I think the proverbial take-home message is that these five countries and their larger set of counterparts committed to stand by that Accord. I was told by one developing country minister present at the meeting of the five that a spirit of “bonhomie” pervaded the scene as the final negotiations moved toward agreement. But that was not expected at the initial moment of truth when the President knock... continue reading »
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Obama’s International Gamble
...as and China needs the United States for creative input. One cannot attain the other without sacrificing the conditions that sustain their political systems. It is hard to imagine Chinese double digit growth under a US type democracy. Therefore we are in a world where US outsources production and China does the same with creativity. If Obama was able to bring China to the table without giving in on ideas, the more power to him. However, it will be... continue reading »
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India, Consensus and the COP-15
...vels by 2020 target. Although, it remains to be passed through the senate, the US government can claim it has seriously engaged its constituents, be it the opposition, the civil society, private sector or the general population before walking up to the negotiating table. We have hardly seen such wide-spread involvement of various stakeholders in India in analyzing the intensity reduction target. The one day that it was discussed in the parliament,... continue reading »
The Missing Link of Climate Change: Single-Family Suburban Homes
It doesn’t solve the problem to buy a hybrid and retrofit your house if all of that takes place 20 miles from your job. You’d still consume more energy (“suburban single family green”) than an urban household without the latest green tech (“urban single family”). And that has as much to do with associated transportation emissions as the size and efficiency of your home. continue reading »
Cali Announces Plans for a New Waste Management Model
...modities such as recyclables, compost, and refuse-derived fuel (RdF). Nevertheless, the implementation of this type of technology could be dependent on the receipt of international NAMA financing. In addition, Ms. Mozo announced that Cali will be launching a pilot of their innovative source separation policy in two neighborhoods. If successful, this policy could be a global model to integrate informal waste pickers into municipal waste management... continue reading »
Notes from Ned: Obama’s Climate Change Plan
...On the Record Reporter roundtable Details: Helme will discuss climate change and EPA regulations Contact: Star Dodd, Center for Clean Air Policy, sdodd@ccap.org, (202) 621-5665 Jeff Birnbaum, BGR Public Relations, jbirnbaum@bgrpr.com, (202) 661-6367... continue reading »
Statement from Ned Helme in Preparation for the Announcement of Obama’s Climate Action Plan
...s focused heavily on the potential opportunities involving existing regulatory tools, new measures within the manufacturing sector that foster renewed growth in industrial efficiency and modernization including the use of combined heat and power (CHP) and overall cost-effective and pragmatic policy options to reduce greenhouse gases in the United States. In addition, CCAP’s Weathering Climate Risks program works closely with cities and companies t... continue reading »
Press Availability for Ned Helme during the UN Conference on Climate Change
...at causes climate change. They will also provide examples of the kind of on-the-ground actions that the GCF should support and that climate negotiators can build on as the basis for the next climate agreement in 2015.” ### Since 1985, the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) has been a recognized world leader in climate and air quality policy and is the only independent, nonprofit think tank working exclusively on those issues at the local, U.S. nat... continue reading »
CCAP Honors a Legacy and Welcomes New Leadership
...the Decin region to use cleaner-burning natural gas co-generation. Led by then-Wisconsin Electric’s CEO Richard Abdoo, three American utilities were brought together to finance the project in return for the world’s first carbon emissions credits. This policy framework later served as a model for the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism system as it was the first such project in the world. “I am immensely proud of the Center for Clean Air... continue reading »
Independent Think Tank Finds California’s GHG Targets Can Likely Be Met at No Net Cost to Consumers
...the costs of the measures we have analyzed. In addition to likely meeting the Governor’s 2010 target at no net cost, we conclude that the 2020 target can likely be met with consumers enjoying savings in gasoline costs and energy bills in 2020. This is great news for California consumers and for the global climate,” CCAP President Ned Helme said. Specifically, combining cost-effective measures analyzed by the Center with measures already underway... continue reading »
Statement by Ned Helme, President of the Center for Clean Air Policy
...of the Union address to rally the American people to the cause and enable the U.S. government to stand out as a worldwide leader in clean air policies.” # # # Since 1985, the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) has been a recognized world leader in climate and air quality policy and is the only independent, nonprofit think tank working exclusively on those issues at the local, U.S. national and international levels. Headquartered in Washington, D.... continue reading »
Quote and Press Availability: Ned Helme of the Center for Clean Air Policy
...y. A noted adviser to government officials and corporate executives around the world, he is the author of more than 50 studies on climate change and air quality, and has testified before Congress and international organizations. With more than thirty years of experience in climate and air policy, Ned has a deep understanding of ways to address air pollution that also advance economic development. Please contact Star Dodd or Jeff Birnbaum if you wi... continue reading »
CCAP at Bonn
...Friday, May 18, 2012 Workshop on the State of NAMAs AWG-LCA workshop to further the understanding of the diversity of NAMAs by developing country Parties, underlying assumptions, and any support needed for implementation of these actions. This workshop included presentations from the following NGOs and countries: Brazil AOSIS Gambia Republic of Korea Bangladesh Georgia China Chile “Workshop for Further Understanding of the Diversity of NAMAs by De... continue reading »
Colombian Delegates Tour DC to Learn Best Practices in Sustainable Urban Development
...urban development in Colombia, as well as the DC region. As part of our on-the-ground work in Latin America, CCAP is hosting Colombian officials from ministries of environment and transportation to not only learn from their expertise in urban transport systems, but also to initiate a knowledge exchange of best practices for urbanization in support of project implementation. Both domestically and internationally, sustainable urban development allo... continue reading »
Advancing Sensible Standards to Control a Major Source of Carbon Pollution
...ause of climate change, which threatens public health and fuels extreme weather. These standards will create new demand for low carbon electric generation and a new revenue source for low carbon electric technologies that would help move the energy sector on a lower carbon trajectory. Technologies like CHP will result in lower energy costs for consumers. For industrial sources and communities, this will translate into improved economic competitive... continue reading »
