Bush to seek $52-mil for six-country climate partnership

Washington (Platts)--12Jan2006

The Bush administration plans to request $52-mil in fiscal 2007 to
support the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, a joint
program of the US and five other countries.

     Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman told the partnership officials at its
first ministerial meeting Wednesday in Sydney that the funding would
complement $3-bil spent now by the US on energy technologies that would
minimize climate change, according to a statement issued by the Department of
Energy Thursday. 

     Bush is expected to present his budget for fiscal 2007, which begins Oct
1, to Congress in February.

     "The greatest progress in addressing climate change will come through a
cooperative effort that combines the best strategies of our governments with
the technical know-how of the private sector," Bodman said. "In order to
achieve meaningful results, we must engage growing and emerging economies from
the outset and encourage the implementation of technologies that have
demonstrated success."

     The members of the partnership have established an initial set of
public-private task groups that focus on fossil fuels, renewable and
distributed generation, power generation and transmission, aluminum, steel,
cement, buildings and appliances, and mining, DOE said.

     The partnership plans to focus on the development and commercialization
of technologies capable of bringing about substantial reductions in greenhouse
gas emissions, DOE said.

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