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WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 2010 The National Center for Sustainable Development (NCSD) announced today the visit to Washington, D.C. of Madame He Bangjing, Chair of the Strategic Development Committee of the China CDM Fund and former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Finance of China for talks with the NCSD Board of Trustees and several prominent Washington officials to enhance promotion of bilateral cooperation towards low carbon economic development. Madame He and her delegation including high-ranking members of the China CDM Fund met in the morning with senior officials of the World Bank and in the afternoon with former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger and Ambassador Paula Dobriansky, former Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs. Madame He Bangjing, Chair of the Strategic Development Committee of the China CDM Fund, and Mr. Chen Huan, Deputy Director General of the China CDM Fund met with former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger. “The meetings with Sandy Berger and Paula Dobriansky helped to reinforce the message that there are vital channels of communications at the NGO and business level which can serve to clarify and accelerate work done at the government to government level,” said Mitchell F. Stanley, President and Trustee of NCSD. Madame He’s message of the need to begin tangible implementation of the goals of the China-US Low Carbon Development Cooperation Program was clear and immediate. “China’s environmental, sustainability, and low carbon development goals are consistent with its worldview as a developing country with a population of 1.4 billion people, many of whom still live in rural poverty,” said NCSD Trustee Damian Omar Valdez, “and deserve access to the basic benefits of the economic development and innovation the developed world has enjoyed for over a century, and will surely lead to economic development returns for both China and globally.” As often noted […]

BEIJING, CHINA, February 25, 2010 – On December 16, 2009, the National Center For Sustainable Development (“NCSD”) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, International Institute for Monitoring and Management of Environment and Resources (“UNIDOIMR”) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding for a strategic alliance to cooperate on and support the China-U.S. Low Carbon Development Cooperation Program (the “Program”) for systemic cooperation between China and the U.S. on sustainable low carbon development. The Program was officially launched by the NCSD and the China CDM Fund Management Center (“CDM Fund”) in November 2009. Under the agreement, UNIDOIMR has entered into a strategic alliance with the NCSD to provide various forms of assistance and support to NCSD to realize and maintain the Program, including assistance in organizing conferences and activities, recommend relative cooperative partners and potential funding organizations, assist in fund raising efforts, and join in research projects and similar activities consistent with promoting the NCSD’s Program. This important and significant relationship with UNIDOIMR is in keeping with the NCSD’s heritage and mission as a U.S. not-for-profit organization in fostering sustainable economic development through the promotion of pollution abatement and other low carbon demonstration projects that lead to recognition of methods and practices that can be adopted as a matter of public and commercial practice and which will lead to reductions in the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The objectives to be demonstrated by the NCSD Program, and that will be further supported through the strategic alliance with UNIDOIMR, are to improve communities globally with examples of sustainable low carbon development through the sponsorship of relevant comparative studies on policy, demonstration and scale-up of investment projects with market-based mechanisms and financial instruments, the purpose of which is to promote sustainable economic and low carbon development by participating in, supporting […]

The NCSD Issues National Call to Action to Business, Industry and Government in The U.S. and China to step up efforts on bi-lateral practical Cooperation for A Sustainable Low Carbon Economy (WASHINGTON, D.C., February 2, 2010) – On November 10, 2009, marking a first-of-its kind innovative initiative and significant efforts by the Government of China, for systemic cooperation between China and the U.S. on sustainable low carbon development, the National Center For Sustainable Development (“NCSD”) initiated a groundbreaking commitment to launch the China-U.S. Low Carbon Development Cooperation Program – exemplifying its expanded mission statement and its next generation of innovative and sustainable low carbon development initiatives. As a first step in demonstrating the commitment of both parties to the Program, on November 10, 2009 the Board of Trustees of the NCSD welcomed Mr. Chen Huan, Deputy Director General of the China CDM Fund Management Center (“CDMF”), Ministry of Finance (“MOF”) of China and Dr. Wen Gang, Deputy Director of Research and Development Department of the CDMF, to join in guiding and managing the Program. Their involvement shows the close cooperation between the CDMF and the NCSD. The launch and implementation of the Program is in keeping with the NCSD’s heritage and mission as a U.S. not-for-profit organization in fostering sustainable development through the promotion of pollution abatement demonstration projects that lead to recognition of methods and practices that can be adopted as a matter of public and commercial practice and which will lead to reductions in the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The objectives to be demonstrated are to improve communities globally with examples of sustainable low carbon development through the sponsorship of relevant comparative studies on policy, demonstration and scale-up of investment projects with market-based mechanisms and financial instruments, the purpose of which is to promote […]

Washington, D.C., December 1st, 2009 – Marking a first-of-its kind innovative initiative and significant efforts by the Government of China, for systemic cooperation between China and the U.S. on sustainable low carbon development, the National Center For Sustainable Development (“NCSD”) today announced a groundbreaking commitment to launch the China-U.S. Low Carbon Development Cooperation Program – exemplifying its expanded mission statement and its next generation of innovative and sustainable low carbon development initiatives. As a first step in demonstrating the commitment of both parties to the Program, on November 10, 2009 the Board of Trustees of the NCSD welcomed Mr. Chen Huan, Deputy Director General of the China CDM Fund Management Center, Ministry of Finance (MOF) of China (“CDMF”) and Dr. Wen Gang, Deputy Director of Research and Development Department of the CDMF, to join in guiding and managing the Program. Their involvement shows the close cooperation between the CDMF and the NCSD. The launch and implementation of the Program is in keeping with the NCSD’s heritage and mission as a U.S. not-for-profit organization in fostering sustainable development through the promotion of pollution abatement demonstration projects that lead to recognition of methods and practices that can be adopted as a matter of public and commercial practice and which will lead to reductions in the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The objectives to be demonstrated are to improve communities globally with examples of sustainable low carbon development through the sponsorship of relevant comparative studies on policy, demonstration and scale-up of investment projects with market-based mechanisms and financial instruments, the purpose of which is to promote economic and low carbon development by financing projects in the U.S. and China that avoid, reduce, or sequester anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and that employ existing, improved and new technologies in service in […]

Washington, D.C., November 10, 2009 – The National Center for Sustainable Development (NCSD) announced today the visit to Washington of Mr. Chen Huan and Dr. Wen Gang of the CDM Fund Management Office (CDMF) in Beijing, China and the execution of a comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to guide the further interaction of both organizations. The visit is the culmination of the development stage of a strategic collaboration and partnership between the two not for profit organizations focused on climate change. The development stage conclusion coincides with Mr. Chen joining the NCSD Board of Trustees and Dr. Wen Gang joining the Executive Management Team. Mr. Chen and Dr. Wen reside in Beijing and work there for the CDM Fund Management Office, which administers the CDM Fund under the authority of the CDM Fund Board and directly the Ministry of Finance. Mr. Chen’s participation of the Board of Trustees and Dr. Wen’s participation on the Executive Management Team will signal the beginning of the implementation phase of the joint efforts. Also, the NCSD Board will adopt and launch the China-US Global Warming and Low Carbon Development Cooperation Program. Mr. Chen will be part of a much larger delegation attending meetings at the World Bank in preparation for joining China’s delegation to the Copenhagen Climate Summit. Mr. Chen expressed the CDM Fund commitment to taking an active role in helping to support projects and efforts to show practical solutions for joint China-US reductions in GHG emissions and to more actively promote the goals of the new low carbon economy.

Beijing, China December 4, 2008 – Sinoaccess Investments signed the ERPA Agreement with Yuxi-Xinhua Water Resources & Hydroelectric Investment Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Xinhua Water Resources & Hydroelectric Investment today. Xinhua is one of the largest professional water resources and hydroelectricity projects investment company under Ministry of Water Resources of China. Start from this ERPA Agreement, Sinoaccess Investments and Xinhua Company will start to jointly develop renewable energy projects in China and CER trading in global carbon market. Mr. Wang Wenke, Chairman of Xinhua Corporation, Mr. Ding Shuangyue, General Manager of Xinhua, Mr. Eric Fang, Chairman of Sinoaccess Investments and Mr. Damian Valdez, President of Sinoaccess Investments presented the Agreement signing ceremony, and expressed that all parties are very pleased on the great successful beginning of the cooperation, and looking forward to the great achievements in the renewable energy field in China.