APPEA's climate change partnerships

Asia-Pacific Partnership

The Asia–Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (APP) consists of Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, South Korea and the United States. This organisation works to accelerate the development and deployment of clean energy technologies.

The seven partner countries collectively account for more than half of the world’s economy, population and energy use. They also produce most of the world’s coal (65 per cent), cement (62 per cent), aluminium (52%) and steel (60%). The huge economic growth of China and India, and the continuing strength of the US and Japan, mean APP is likely to constitute an even greater proportion of global economic activity in the decades ahead.

The Australian upstream oil and gas industry is a member of one of the eight APP taskforces and during 2008/09 APPEA completed its work on the Asia-Pacific Gas Market Growth Project. The project was finalised and its report released in September 2009. This project is aimed at developing a larger gas market in partner economies to promote energy security, air pollution reduction, and the mitigation of carbon emissions in a way that promotes sustainable economic growth.

Australian Industry Greenhouse Network

APPEA is active in the Australian Industry Greenhouse Network, a group of industry associations and individual businesses that contributes to climate change policy debate. AIGN’s members see value in joint industry action on climate change policy issues in order to promote sustainable industry development.