
The Aluminium, Buildings and Appliances, Cement, and Renewable Energy and Distributed Generation Task Forces will hold their respective Task Force meetings and convene at a Joint APP Task Force Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, 21-26 March 2010, in conjunction with Globe 2010.
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The 6th Coal Task Force Meeting will be held in Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia on 11-12 March 2010.
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The APP held its third Ministerial Meeting and eighth PIC Meeting in Shanghai, China on 26-27 October 2009.
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The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate is an innovative new effort to accelerate the development and deployment of clean energy technologies.
APP partners Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Korea, and the United States have agreed to work together and with private sector partners to meet goals for energy security, national air pollution reduction, and climate change in ways that promote sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction. The Partnership will focus on expanding investment and trade in cleaner energy technologies, goods and services in key market sectors. The Partners have approved eight public-private sector task forces covering:
The seven partner countries collectively account for more than half of the world's economy, population and energy use, and they produce about 65 percent of the world's coal, 62 percent of the world's cement, 52 percent of world's aluminium, and more than 60 percent of the world's steel.
The APP has projects located in Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Korea, and the United States, which are organized into eight sectoral Task Force groups.
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