Title:	Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate
Coordinating Institutions:	Member nations are Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and the United States
Objective:	The agreement of the six nations aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through technology and voluntary partnerships. The intent is to develop, deploy and transfer existing and emerging clean technologies to meet increasing energy demands to find solutions to reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of economies to build human and institutional capacities to strengthen the cooperative efforts to seek ways to engage the private sector to promote next-generation nuclear power, fusion power, hydrogen energy distribution, biotechnology and nanotechnology (Link to Process)
Project Description:	The Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate (APPCDC) is an international agreement announced July 28, 2005 at an Association of South East Asian Nations Regional Forum meeting. The participating countries, which account for around 50% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, agreed to cooperate on development and transfer of technology. The cooperation focuses on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency, clean coal, carbon capture and storage, methane capture and use, integrated gasification combined cycle, liquefied natural gas, civilian nuclear power, advanced transportation, rural/ village energy systems, building and home construction operation, bioenergy, agriculture and forestry, hydropower, wind, solar, for example. The partnership is consistent with the UNFCCC efforts on Climate Change. It will complement, but not replace, the Kyoto Protocol. Missing, in contrast to the Kyoto Protocol, are reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions. The Inaugural Meeting of the Asia-Pacific climate pact, took place in Sydney, Australia on January 12, 2006. The second and third Policy and Implementation Meetings took place in April and October 2006.

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