Vision and Framework for Strategy and Planning
Published August 2005

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Appendix B – CCTP Participating Agency FY 2004 to FY 2006 Budgets and Requests

Table B-1: Categorization of R&D Funding To Climate Change Technology Program (Funding, $ Millions)

Criteria for Including Activities Related to the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program

Research, development, demonstration, and deployment activities³⁷ classified as being climate change work or associated with the goals and objectives of the Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP) must be activities that are relevant to providing opportunities for:

• Current and future reductions in or avoidances of emissions of GHGs
• GHG capture and/or long-term storage, including biological uptake and storage
• Conversion of GHGs to beneficial use in ways that avoid emissions to the atmosphere
• Monitoring and/or measurement of GHG emissions, inventories, and fluxes in a variety of settings
• Technologies that improve or displace other GHG emitting technologies, such that the result would be reduced GHG emissions compared to technologies they displace
• Technologies that could enable or facilitate the development, deployment, and use of other GHG-emissions reduction technologies
• Technologies that alter, substitute for, or otherwise replace processes, materials, and/or feedstocks, resulting in lower net emission of GHGs
• Technologies that mitigate the effects of climate change, enhance adaptation or resilience to climate change impacts, or potentially counterbalance the likelihood of human-induced climate change
• Basic research activities undertaken explicitly to address a technical barrier to progress of one of the above climate change technologies
• GHG emission reductions resulting from clear improvements in management practices or purchasing decisions

Specific examples of climate change technology activities include, but are not limited to

• Electricity production technologies and associated fuel cycles with significantly reduced, little, or no net GHG emissions
• High-quality fuels or other high-energy density and transportable carriers of energy with significantly reduced, little, or no net GHG emissions
• Feedstocks, resources or material inputs to economic activities, which may be produced through processes or complete resource cycles with significantly reduced, little or no net GHG emissions
• Improved processes and infrastructure for using GHG-free fuels, power, materials, and feedstocks
• CO₂ capture, permanent storage (sometimes referred to as sequestration), and biological uptake
• Technologies that reduce, control or eliminate emissions of non-CO₂ GHGs
• Advances in sciences of remote sensing and other monitoring, measurement and verification technologies, including data systems and inference methods
• Technologies that substantially reduce GHG-intensity
• Voluntary government/industry programs designed to directly reduce GHG emissions
• Programs that result in energy efficiency improvements through grants or direct technical assistance.