Chinese Sustainable Development Projects Focus Of American Groups
August 2, 2007 |
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Business Council for Sustainable Development are targeting China in a new campaign to promote international sustainable development projects.
"Promoting clean power solutions and clean energy innovations both domestically and internationally is an EPA commitment," said EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. "Through today's MOU signing, we're joining forces with US BCSD to deliver an economically- and environmentally-brighter tomorrow."
EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and Sabrina Watkins, chairman of the US BCSD and environmental technology manager at ConocoPhillips, signed a memorandum of understanding at the US BCSD Summer Meeting in Chicago to promote cooperation on environmental and sustainable development initiatives around the world.
The focus initially will be on China, where the parties will build on existing relationships with the China Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Chinese EPA to develop projects that assist in China's transition to a sustainable economy that efficiently uses and reuses materials and is powered by renewable energy and other clean energy sources.
They will collaborate in three areas. They will work to create a more sustainable strategy for cement production in China, the world's leading producer. They will expand development and deployment of clean technologies to convert biomass waste to renewable energy. Finally, they will implement by-product synergy, a system that allows companies from one industrial sector to use the wastes, or by-products of another sector as raw materials for other companies.
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