Areas For Collaboration
The intent is to create a voluntary, non-legally binding framework for international cooperation to facilitate the development, diffusion, deployment, and transfer of existing, emerging and longer term cost- effective, cleaner, more efficient technologies and practices among the Partners through concrete and substantial cooperation so as to achieve practical results; promote and create enabling environments to assist in such efforts; facilitate attainment of the Partners' respective national pollution reduction, energy security and climate change objectives; and provide a forum for exploring the Partners’ respective policy approaches relevant to addressing interlinked development, energy, environment, and climate change issues within the context of clean development goals, and for sharing experiences in developing and implementing respective national development and energy strategies.
The Partnership's inaugural Ministerial meeting established eight government/business taskforces through its Work Plan, posted on the APP website.
- cleaner fossil energy
- renewable energy and distributed generation
- power generation and transmission
- steel
- aluminum
- cement
- coal mining
- buildings and appliances
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