Center for Climate Strategies

CCS collaborates with national, provincial and state governments worldwide to develop climate action plans, low carbon development plans, and low emissions development strategies. Through this assistance, CCS offers startup assistance, coaching, quality control, coordination, capacity building, training, education, technical and facilitative assistance, information exchange, and institutional partnerships. Our international program includes projects in China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the European Union, Guatemala, Mexico, Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Ukraine. Click the map to find out more about CCS' work with international partners.  

Asia and Pacific Islands

China's Low Carbon Development Planning is the an essential part of the CCS international program. CCS has been working in China since 2009 supporting the developement of a Low Carbon Development Planning and Analysis Toolkit and scale up program and state to provincial information exchange. CCS partners with the Beijing-based Global Environment Institute (GEI) to support China's advancement of climate change action. In 2011 the U.S State Department and China's National Development and Reform Comission (NDRC) formally recognized this U.S.-China partnership as an official EcoPartnership.

CCS also successfully partnered with USAID to provide third party review of greenhouse gas inventories and forecasts and verfiication of Climate Action Plans in Philippines. 

North and Central America

CCS works collaboratively with USAID and other partners in North and Central America on low carbon development, climate action planning, and low emissions development strategies, including Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Guatemala. Since 2007 CCS has helped the six Border States of Mexico develop greenhouse gas emissions baselines and climate action plans in partnership with the Border Environment Cooperation Commission, state agencies in the region, and other partners.

European Countries

CCS is partnering with the Delegation of the European Union to the United States to expand Transatlantic Dialog regarding overlapping successes and future opportunities to expand economic growth through climate action based on the US sub-national and the European Union (EU) member nations experiences. Countries included in the European Union include Sweden, Finland, Ireland, United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Malta, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus.

Ukraine

In Ukraine, CCS is collaborating with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Municipal Energy Reform Project to enhance the Ukrainian government’s capacity to develop a Low Emissions Development Strategy (LEDS). 

Africa

CCS is partnering with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ministry of Environment to provide outreach, capacity building, and startup assistance for a national Green Growth Plan and Low Emissions Development Strategy (LEDS).

United Nations

CCS is an official observer with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and has been active in hosting formal Side Events and delegations at meetings of the Conference of Parties (COP), as well as bilateral and other multilateral meetings. In this role CCS provides information exchange, technique development, and policy dialog between officials and institutions on key aspects of climate change policy. For more information, please clikc here.