Clean Development & Climate Program (CDCP)

The ECO-Asia Clean Development & Climate Program promotes regional policy and market transformation in Asia that promotes investment in clean energy technologies while addressing Asia’s economic productivity, energy security, and environmental challenges, particularly Asia’s contribution to global climate change. This three-year program is strategically focused on identifying and promoting viable near-term solutions that will clearly benefit from the cooperative efforts of governments and industry in China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Launched in October 2006, the program will:

• analyze regional priorities and opportunities for climate change mitigation and prepare a regional analysis report;
  
• build government capacity to enable clean development through access to finance, policy incentives, and improved standards;
  
• improve the ability of focus countries to measure and report GHG reductions;
  
• leverage private sector participation to scale-up development and demonstration of clean energy technologies and practices; and
  
• promote regional cooperation.

The program is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and managed by the Regional Environment Office of the USAID Regional Development Mission/Asia in Bangkok.