Accomplishments
CCAP has made its mark on climate and air quality policy and earned respect around the globe for its innovative policy development and market-based solutions. With active on-the-ground policy and research activities and through its unique stakeholder dialogues, CCAP has advanced market-based, pragmatic climate change and air quality policies that balance environmental protection with economic development.
CCAP’s major accomplishments include:
- Playing a major role in passage of the landmark U.S. SO2 trading program in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments;
- Crafting the original design for the European Union’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS);
- Helping lead development of the NOx reduction and trading program in the eastern U.S.;
- Developing comprehensive climate policy strategy for New York state, which directly led to the successful creation of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI);
- Convening three U.S. utilities to successfully finance the retrofitting of a coal-fired plant to natural gas in the Czech Republic; and
- Producing the original design rules with key international stakeholders for the Clean Development Mechanism, adopted as the Marrakech Accords, which allowed countries to proceed toward ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.
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