President Clinton launched the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) in August 2006 to make a difference in the fight against climate change in practical, measurable, and significant ways.
CCI is serving as the exclusive implementing partner of the C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group, an association of large cities around the world that have pledged to accelerate their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this capacity, CCI is working with partner cities to develop and implement large scale projects to improve energy efficiency and directly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in buildings, waste management, transportation, outdoor lighting, ports, and other areas.
CCI is also assisting a selected number of partner governments to develop and implement large scale projects that accelerate the deployment of clean energy generation technologies including carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) from fossil fuel plants and solar thermal energy (CSP). CCI is working with a selected number of tropical developing countries to structure and implement model forest preservation and reforestation projects as well as clean energy and waste management projects.
