ABOUT US
The Climate Change Policy Partnership
The Climate Change Policy Partnership (CCPP) was established at Duke University in October 2005 through a gift from founding partner Duke Energy. The CCPP takes a systems approach to researching carbon-mitigating technology, infrastructure and institutions. Our goal is to inform lawmakers and business leaders as they lay the foundation of a low-carbon economy. By identifying barriers and offering policy options for overcoming those barriers, we help determine practical strategies to respond to the pressing challenges of global climate change.
Contributions
The CCPP strives to be a resource for lawmakers. Our staff has responded to requests from congressional staffers, federal regulators, and the private sector for information regarding carbon capture and storage (CCS), carbon market oversight and transparency, barriers to technology deployment, integration of state and federal greenhouse gas markets, and offset protocols.
Moving forward, the CCPP will focus on answering the following questions:
- How do we design a CCS system that most effectively moves CO2 emissions from the sources to the best storage locations?
- How do we create an electricity system that takes advantage of a diverse mix of low-carbon energy resources and efficiently transports the power to the load centers?
- How do we design a transportation system that allows citizens to minimize the CO2 they emit as they conduct their day-to-day lives?
- How do we design a carbon market system that causes emitters to internalize the cost of GHG emissions while minimizing the risk of market failures?
Participants
The CCPP leverages the resources of Duke University. The three primary participants in the project from Duke are two interdisciplinary centers—the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Solutions and the Center on Global Change—and the Nicholas School of the Environment. Our corporate partners play an important role, lending their expertise to help develop research projects, providing valuable feedback on the technical and economic issues, and providing the funds necessary to conduct the research. Current corporate partners include Duke Energy, ConocoPhillips and MeadWestvaco.
