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Overview
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CSEP supports China's policy efforts to increase energy efficiency and renewable energy in six sectors: low-carbon development paths, transportation, buildings, industry, electric utilities, and renewable energy. The program strives to build institutional capacity in China to analyze energy-saving and renewable-energy opportunities, to support policy development furthering energy efficiency and renewable energy in accordance with China's policy priorities, and to assist with the implementation of those policies at both the national and provincial levels. The program is geared toward helping Chinese agencies, experts, and entrepreneurs solve energy challenges for themselves, bringing in international expertise when requested by Chinese government officials or organizations.
In this section we describe our programs and illustrate them with the grants given over the past two years.
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Low-Carbon Development Paths
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The Low-Carbon Development Paths Program (LCDP) focuses on developing analytic tools to help China’s energy planners anticipate the future impacts of today’s policy decisions.
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Transportation
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The Transportation Program supports China’s policy efforts to reduce carbon emissions and improve air quality from the transportation sector by promoting cleaner vehicles and alternative transportation options, including advanced bus rapid transit systems (BRT).
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Renewable Energy
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The Renewable Energy Program supports China’s policy efforts to encourage bulk purchases of renewable energy by China’s electric utilities and independent power producers in order to drive down costs and speed the broad introduction of renewable energy technologies.
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Electric Utilities
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The Electric Utilities Program supports China’s efforts to shift power-sector investments away from fossil-fuel-based electricity generation and toward end-use energy efficiency and renewable energy.
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Buildings
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The goal of the Buildings Program is to encourage construction of energy efficient buildings, as well as the development of efficient appliances and equipment.
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Industry
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The Industry Program supports China’s goal to decrease energy consumption in large industrial enterprises
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Environmental Management
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Although China’s Law on Environmental Protection was issued in 1979, at the very initial stage of China’s industrialization and urbanization, due to lack of enforcement, this law and the numerous environmental regulations and standards under the law have failed to curb environmental degradation caused by fast-growing fossil fuel combustion and motorization. Despite the adoption of ambitious energy efficiency and pollutant reduction targets, only 2.4% of China’s medium and large cities met the State’s ‘Grade One’ air quality standards in 2007.
Also rapid growth of motorization, industry, buildings, and electricity generation is undermining gains in energy efficiency. Strict environmental regulation will increase the cost of fossil fuel combustion, set environmental constraints on the growth of energy intensive sectors, and promote the best available pollution control technologies, reinforcing the implementation of sustainable energy policies and clean technologies
Beijing successfully achieved its Olympics clean air commitments, creating political momentum for environmental regulatory reform. Though short-term measures, including taking half of the city’s vehicles off the road and shutting down factories before and during the Olympics, played a critical role in Beijing’s temporary clean-up, Beijing’s 14-phase Clean Air Action plan has been taking aggressive steps since 1999 to tighten environmental regulations and implement sustainable energy policies. Existing research projects also indicate that the implementation of Beijing's Olympic Clean Air Action Plan will achieve savings of 38.5 million MtCO2 by 2030.
China environmental management program aims to enhance the capacity of China’s environmental regulatory system in order to confront its dual challenges from severe local pollution and global warming, which are separate, but intrinsically related because of common sources. Program focuses are in three areas including environmental governance, Climate-friendly Air Quality Management (AQM) planning and environmental levy by supporting policy research and efforts to achieve the following objectives:
Capacity-building in environmental administration to facilitate rigorous enforcement of China's ambitious clean energy and environmental laws.
Utilization of Air Quality Management (AQM) planning as a tool to address local pollution and global warming in order to achieve clear air goals as well as CO2 and Non-CO2 GHG emission reduction.
Raising environmental levies, especially levying an energy or carbon tax on fossil fuels.
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Regulatory Assistance Project |
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The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) is a U.S. non-profit, non-governmental organization formed in 1992 by experienced former utility regulators who provide research, analysis, and educational assistance to public officials on electric utility regulation. RAP's work in China began in 1999.
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China Automotive Technology and Research Center |
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Established in 1985, the China Automotive Technology & Research Center (CATARC) is China's leading motor vehicle technical analysis group and primary think tank for several government agencies.
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