
The Policy and Implementation Committee is pleased to announce that on 20 May 2009 it has endorsed two new projects under the Renewable Energy and Distributed Generation Task Force; one new project under the Cleaner Fossil Energy Task Force; and two new projects under the Buildings & Appliances Task Force, one of which is a Flagship.
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The Policy and Implementation Committee is pleased to announce that on 17 April 2009 it has endorsed one new project under the Aluminium Task Force.
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The Policy and Implementation Committee is pleased to announce that on 12 March 2009 it has endorsed three new projects under the Buildings and Appliances Task Force.
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The Cement Task Force will hold its 7th Task Force meeting July 14-15, 2009 in Seoul, Korea.
The Policy and Implementation Committee held its seventh meeting 19-20 May 2009 in Gold Coast, Australia.
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The Steel Task Force held a Task Force Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, USA from 4-5 May 2009.
The Renewable Energy and Distributed Generation Task Force held a Task Force Meeting in Tokyo, Japan from 22-25 April 2009.
The Cleaner Fossil Energy Task Force held a Task Force Meeting in Seoul, Korea from 31 March-2 April 2009.
The Buildings & Appliances Task Force held a Task Force Meeting in New Delhi, India from 8-10 April 2009.
The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate is an innovative new effort to accelerate the development and deployment of clean energy technologies.
APP partners Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Korea, and the United States have agreed to work together and with private sector partners to meet goals for energy security, national air pollution reduction, and climate change in ways that promote sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction. The Partnership will focus on expanding investment and trade in cleaner energy technologies, goods and services in key market sectors. The Partners have approved eight public-private sector task forces covering:
The seven partner countries collectively account for more than half of the world's economy, population and energy use, and they produce about 65 percent of the world's coal, 62 percent of the world's cement, 52 percent of world's aluminium, and more than 60 percent of the world's steel.
The APP has projects located in Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Korea, and the United States, which are organized into eight sectoral Task Force groups.
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