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Center for Clean Air Policy

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Sustainable Development: Agriculture Capacity-building Climate change Disaster management and vulnerability Energy Forests Indicators Industrial development International cooperation for an enabling environment Major Groups Partnerships Protecting and managing the natural resources Sustainable development in a globalizing world Transport Waste (solid) Waste Management
Country of activity:	Belgium United States of America Malaysia Peru Thailand Argentina Chile Mexico Czechia Viet Nam Colombia Panama Brazil India Indonesia Philippines Uruguay Costa Rica China Pakistan Dominican Republic
Millennium Development Goals:	Ensure environmental sustainability Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	Since 1985 the Center for Clean Air Policy 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, national and international levels. CCAP 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 staff and consultants across the U.S. and around the globe, CCAP is developing pragmatic solutions that balance both environmental and economic interests. CCAP has been an active player in the international and national efforts to address global climate change for over twenty-five years. The objective overall of the international climate policy program at CCAP is to promote post-2012 mitigation actions in key regions that put the world on a path to achieving the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions needed to keep the global temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius. CCAP continues to advance its mission through a series of regional dialogues, entitled the Mitigation Action Implementation Network (MAIN) that assist developing countries in Latin America and Asia to implement Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs). As actions begin to move forward on the ground, this initiative will highlight success stories and will provide insight into best practices and serve as framework for future projects. As CCAP focuses on implementation of effective policies regarding successful climate mitigation actions in developing countries, collaboration and research involving the implementation and development of NAMAs in the waste, cement, transportation and small and medium housing sectors continues. Originally named the Future Actions Dialogue, CCAP hosts a series of global dialogue sessions bringing together more than thirty developed and developing countries for in-depth analysis and development of climate policy options for consideration in the post-2012 Kyoto Protocol negotiations. CCAP works to develop medium- to long-term climate change, energy and finance policy for Europe through the European Climate and Energy Dialogue. This program supports a series of meetings to bring together high-level representatives from key EU Member State ministries, industry, private-sector financial institutions and NGO stakeholders to create recommendations and provide working papers to the ongoing EU climate and energy debates. Through the Developing Countries program, CCAP has worked with local partners in China, Mexico and Indonesia to conduct applied research that emphasizes practical on-the-ground solutions and aims to: build on existing country strategies to design policies to mitigate GHG emissions and reduce deforestation in accord with the unique national circumstances; work with countries to examine how these policy options could be integrated with national development plans and implemented within international climate frameworks; analyze the implications of utilizing existing international carbon accounting methodologies and procedures in specific countries; and, feed the results directly into the international climate negotiation process. Domestically, CCAP has worked at the national and state levels to design policy recommendations that will help shape a pragmatic and cost-effective U.S. climate policy. This policy will need to overcome political resistance and, in combination with efforts of leading GHG emitting countries, support a global climate mitigation path that will stabilize atmospheric concentrations of GHGs at levels that will prevent some of the worst impacts of climate change. The key components of the CCAP national climate policy program are: 1) Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), 2) Transportation and Climate Change, 3) National Urban Climate Adaptation Policy, and 4) Targeted Policy Research and Outreach.
Year established:	1985
Year of registration:	1986
Organizational structure:	In 1985, the Center for Clean Air Policy was established in the District of Columbia and is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as tax-exempt under 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3) to conduct scientific and educational research. CCAP has been a recognized world leader in climate and air quality policy and is the only independent think-tank working exclusively on these issues at the local, national and international levels. CCAP 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 staff and consultants across the U.S. and around the globe, CCAP is developing pragmatic solutions that balance both environmental and economic interests. Headquartered in DC, CCAP has offices in Brussels and Montreal, and on-the-ground policy and research staff and consultants across the US, Mexico and Chile. CCAP is governed by a 19 member board of directors, who meet annually and operate under standard by-laws. The staff of 20 is headed up by Ned Helme, President of CCAP, and a management team consisting of managers of finance, administration, policy, development, and communications. The management team holds weekly meetings to discuss and coordinate organizational governance, policy and strategic issues for the organization.
Number and type of members:	CCAP is not a membership-based organization. As a think tank, it is accountable to its board of directors and the voluntary contributions of its donors. We do have a mailing list of about 4000 various NGO, governmental and corporate individuals who are interested in receiving news of CCAP’s research, but we do not have a membership.
Affiliation with NGO networks:	Climate Action Network (CAN), Climate Action Network (CAN) – Europe , Coordinated Low Emissions Assistance Network (CLEAN), Low Emissions Development Strategies (LEDS) Global Partnership, Research and Independent Non-governmental Organizations (RINGO)
Funding structure:	Donations and grants from domestic sources Foreign and international grants

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