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CCAP's mission is to support every step of climate action, from ambition to implementation. A recognized world leader in climate policy and action, CCAP creates innovative, replicable climate solutions, strengthens capacities, and promotes best practices across the local, national, and international levels to accelerate the transition to a net-zero, climate resilient future.
Chuck Kooshian
Oct 3, 2018
The Start of an Urban Renaissance: Colombia TOD NAMA Expands to Monteria
The Colombia transit-oriented development (TOD) NAMA has recently expanded to encompass a fourth city. Monteria, a city of 400,000, is...
Pablo Lopez Legarreta
Jul 30, 2018
Mexico Advances Leadership Climate Regulations
Even as the US aims to backtrack on its climate commitments, the rest of the world continues to move forward. The latest success comes...
Steve Winkelman
Apr 26, 2018
Colombia TOD NAMA: Disruptive Urban "Technology" and Superblocks
CCAP project leads Steve Winkelman and Chuck Kooshian have just returned from their latest mission during which they guided CIUDAT...
Stacey Davis
Apr 16, 2018
Facilitating Participation for Distributed Energy (and Avoiding the Pitfalls)
Last week FERC held a two-day technical conference on the participation of aggregated distributed energy resources (DER) in the wholesale...
Chuck Kooshian
Jan 8, 2018
Transportation MRV: It's Complicated
As the international community moves on from negotiating climate change agreements to implementing agreed actions that reduce GHG...
Stacey Davis
Oct 26, 2017
Budget Reconciliation: The US Electric Grid Requires Immediate Attention to Early Stage Research
With the deadline fast approaching to pass a budget for FY 2018, there is a significant risk that critical early stage research programs...
Stacey Davis
Oct 4, 2017
Secretary Perry's Narrow Directive to FERC
Contradicting the findings from the Department of Energy’s August 2017 Staff Report to the Secretary on Electricity Markets and...
Stacey Davis
Sep 26, 2017
Linking Mitigation Transfers to Long-Term Action Under the Paris Agreement
“Cooperative Approaches” and “Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes” under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement are among the most...
Stacey Davis
Aug 30, 2017
We Can Have Reliable Energy and a Clean Environment
The much anticipated Department of Energy (DOE) Staff Report to the Secretary on Electricity Markets and Reliability confirms that recent...
Stacey Davis
Aug 17, 2017
CCAP Continues Work to Reduce Methane Emissions in the Mexican Oil and Gas Sector
As part of the oil and gas regulatory support project, CCAP and the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) organized a workshop on Regulatory...
Brooks Shaffer
Aug 16, 2017
CCAP’s Waste Program launches work with the Municipality of Quito, Ecuador
CCAP’s Waste Program officially launched work with the Municipality of Quito, Ecuador, in July 2017. The overarching goal of this work is...
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Aug 2, 2017
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...
Paolo Cozzi
Apr 17, 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...
Brooks Shaffer
Mar 29, 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...
Paolo Cozzi
Mar 21, 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...
Stan Kolar
Mar 9, 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...
Steve Winkelman
Feb 23, 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...
Bill Tyndall
Feb 6, 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...
Chuck Kooshian
Nov 16, 2016
Are Transport NAMAs the Key to NDCs?
Transport mitigation actions can be complicated, and their effects are notoriously hard to measure. Successful transport Nationally...
Bill Tyndall
Nov 10, 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...
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