Climate Action Partnership
The Climate Action Partnership (CAP) is a coalition of major corporations which includes Alcoa Inc., General Electric Co., DuPont Co., Duke Energy Corp., Caterpillar, PG&E, the FPL Group, PNM Resources, BP and Lehman Brothers, Reuters reported January 19, 2007.
CAP was identified in the online publication ClimateBiz as "a program of Environmental Defense and numerous collaborating companies." CPA's stated URL www.pca-online.org is inactive. [1]
The coalition "plans to publicize its recommendations on Monday [January 22, 2007], a day ahead of" President George W. Bush's State of the Union 2007 address, which "will outline a policy on global warming." The group wants a "firm nationwide limit on carbon dioxide emissions that would lead to reductions of 10 to 30 percent over the next 15 years" and "will discourage the construction of conventional coal-burning power plants and a cap on greenhouse-gas emissions." [2]
U.S.-Australia Climate Action Partnership
The establishment of the U.S.-Australia Climate Action Partnership was announced February 27, 2002, by the governments of the United States and Australia "following meetings on climate change" held in Washington, D. C., "between Dr. David Kemp, Australian Minister for the Environment and Heritage", and "several senior members" of the Bush administration, including U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman; James Connaughton, Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality; Frances Blake, Deputy Secretary of Energy; and Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs. Partnership participants included the EPA, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Department of State and their Australian counterparts." [3]
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- "Companies press Bush, Congress on climate: reports," Reuters (Washington Post), January 19, 2007.
