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U.S. Climate Change Technology Program
The U.S. Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP)17 is the technology counterpart to CCSP. It is a multi-agency planning and coordinating entity, led by the Department of Energy. The CCTP’s principal aim is to accelerate the development of new and advanced technologies to address climate change. The CCTP works with participating agencies (Table 1), provides strategic direction for the CCTP-related elements of the overall Federal R&D portfolio, and facilitates the coordinated planning, programming, budgeting and implementation of the technology development and deployment aspects of  U.S. climate change strategy. The CCTP operates under the direction of a senior-level official at the Department of Energy and reports through the IWG to the cabinet-level CCCSTI.
Table 1: Federal Agencies Participating in the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program
Agency |
Selected examples of Climate Change-Related Technology R&D Programs |
USDA |
Carbon Fluxes in Soils, Forests and Other Vegetation, Carbon Sequestration, Nutrient Management, Cropping Systems, Forest and Forest Products Management, Livestock, and Waste Management, Biomass Energy and Bio-based Products Development |
DOC |
Instrumentation, Standards, Ocean Sequestration, Decision Support Tools |
DOD |
Aircraft, Engines, Fuels, Trucks, Equipment, Power, Fuel Cells, Lasers, Energy Management, Basic Research |
DOE |
Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Nuclear Fission and Fusion, Fossil Fuels and Power, Carbon Sequestration, Basic Energy Sciences, Hydrogen, Bio-Fuels, Electric Grid and Infrastructure |
HHS* |
Environmental Sciences, Biotechnology, Genome Sequencing, Health Effects |
DOI |
Land, Forest, and Prairie Management, Mining, Sequestration, Geothermal Energy, Terrestrial Sequestration Technology Development |
DOS* |
International Science and Technology Cooperation, Oceans, Environment |
DOT |
Aviation, Highways, Rail, Freight, Maritime, Urban Mass Transit, Transportation Systems, Efficiency and Safety |
EPA |
Mitigation of CO2 and Non-CO2 GHG Emissions through Voluntary Partnership Programs, including Energy STAR, Climate Leaders, Green Power, Combined Heat and Power, State and Local Clean Energy, Methane and High-GWP Gases, and Transportation; GHG Emissions Inventory |
NASA |
Earth Observations, Measuring, Monitoring, Aviation Equipment, Operations and Infrastructure Efficiency |
NSF |
Geosciences, Oceans, Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Computational Sciences |
USAID* |
International Assistance, Technology Deployment, Land Use, Human Impacts |
* CCTP-related funding for the indicated agencies is not included in the totals for CCTP in the budget tables of Appendix B. However, the agencies participate in CCTP R&D planning and coordination as members of CCTP’s Working Groups. Agency titles for the acronyms above are shown in Appendix B |
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