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7 U.S.-Chinese Cooperation
7 U.S.-Chinese Cooperation
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reducing emissions from coal-based power; (2) promoting energy efficiency and conservation; and (3)
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. In 1995–1996, the Protocol for Cooperation in the Fields of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technology Development and Utilization was signed by DOE and various Chinese ministries.
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Specific target areas included urban air quality, rural electri fication, clean energy sources, and energy efficiency. The initiative, which involved many agencies and a number of business sectors, was perhaps the first U.S.-Chinese initiative to link energy development and environmental protection.
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the conservation of forest and wetland ecosystems. In July 2009, the Obama administration made its first announcement on U.S.-Chinese energy cooperation in conjunction with Secretary of Energy Steven Chu's first trip to China.3 Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang, Chinese National Energy Administrator Zhang GuoBao, and Chu signed a proto col announcing plans to develop a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center to facilitate joint R&D on clean energy by teams of scientists and engineers from the United States and China, and to serve as a clearinghouse for researchers in both countries.
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, which will include the development of common standards, demonstration projects in more than a dozen cities, technical road mapping, and public education projects; this initiative builds on the U.S.-China Electric Vehicle Forum held in Beijing in September 2009.6 Third, the presidents announced a new U.S.-China Energy Efficiency Action Plan that includes the development of energy efficient building codes and rating systems, energy efficiency benchmarking of industrial facili ties, training for building inspectors and energy efficiency auditors for industrial facilities, the harmonizing of test procedures and performance metrics for energy efficient consumer products, the exchange of best practices in energy efficient labeling, and the convening of a new U.S.-China Energy Efficiency Forum to be held annually, alternating between the two countries (OPS, 2009d)
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, and the U.S.-China Energy Cooperation Program to leverage private-sector resources for project development work in China on a broad array of clean energy projects. Founding members include more than 20 companies and will involve collaborative projects on renewable energy, smart grid, clean transportation, green building, clean coal, combined heat and power, and energy efficiency.
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Other nongovernmental forums include cooperative programs between U.S. and Chinese universities, such as the Tsinghua–MIT Low Carbon Energy Research Center; public-private partnerships, such as the U.S.-China Clean Energy Forum; and regional and local partnerships, such as the mayoral training program run by the Joint U.S.-China Collaboration on Clean Energy.
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For example, the agreements outlining the new China-U.S. Clean Energy Center and Renewable Energy Partnership refer to existing funding sources for implementing domestic actions in both countries, rather than to additional funding sources for collaborative projects.
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If collaborations on clean energy are carefully designed, they can improve the economic prospects of both nations without conferring an unfair competitive advantage on either of them. Recent events have shown how both countries can act cooperatively to expand access to clean energy markets.
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Both countries should have access to the best, lowest cost, wind turbine technology available, and healthy competition in domestic and international markets should encourage both countries to produce it. Clearly, it will take time to build a foundation of trust, but in the long run, that trust will be crucial to scaling up the clean energy cooperation between the United States and China that will benefit the entire world.
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provide one such example. Both countries could benefit from understanding all of the strategic studies being developed, because they are both facing similar technical and political challenges related to the increased deployment of renewable energy technologies.
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Cost-sharing arrangements involving multiple countries can be beneficial to all concerned, both developers and the countries in which the products will be commercialized. One clean energy technology often considered appropriate for joint demonstration is CCS applied to coal-fired power plants -- a technology that would be very costly for adopters but would benefit everyone by greatly reducing harmful emissions.
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Renewable energy cooperation between the United States and China should be coordinated under an overarching framework linked to a comprehensive program of U.S.-China energy and climate cooperation agreed to by the leaders of both countries. The 2009 U.S.-Chinese clean energy cooperation agreements may provide such a framework, but it is too early to assess their achievements.
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The proposed U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center provides one such model for organizing consortia of participants from government, academia, business, and nongovernmental organizations in both countries around pressing research issues that were jointly identified by the governments of both sides. The U.S.-China Presidential Summit in Beijing in November 2009 resulted in a significant set of new agreements on joint energy and climate cooperation between the two countries, which if implemented effectively could serve as a platform for enhanced cooperation on renewable energy.
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basic research in fields that can contribute to future breakthroughs in renewable energy technologies; (2) joint strategic studies advising policy makers; (3)
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