Dec 1, 2017
Green Transportation and Low Carbon City Financing
This report reviews the current status of China's urban green transport financing, analyzes possible problems, and introduces domestic and international experiences. It also explores how municipal governments can help launch sustainable investment and financing of green transportation by installing optimal institutional settings, transaction structure, and implementation procedures.
The innovative model of investment and financing proposed in this report is a potential alternative to the traditional model that cannot satisfy the huge investment demand of green transportation in Chinese cities.
The research was supported by the Bloomberg Philanthropies, and released by Energy Foundation China and the Beijing Chaoyang Yuheng Sustainable Transportation Research Center in December 2017.
Sep 28, 2017
Green Development of Construction Enterprises
This report summarizes green development and construction practices at the China Railway Construction Group and presents a green development model for construction enterprises. Taking the group as an example, the project looks into how to promote green development in construction enterprises. After analyzing policy obstacles the new model faces, the report puts forward policy recommendations in response.
It was supported by Energy Foundation China and conducted by the China Railway Construction Group in 2017.
Aug 16, 2017
Changing Cities in 5 Steps
China’s urbanization is transitioning from an era of sprawling expansion to the pursuit of livability. Only cities that are designed and constructed for people can be livable and sustainable.
Aug 1, 2017
Urban Renewal Planning in the Jiangsu Province
In 2017, Energy Foundation China supported the Urbanization and Urban-Rural Planning Research Center of Jiangsu to study on urban renewal planning in the province.
In this report, researchers propose a planning methodology to guide systematic urban renewal and try to improve its policy analysis and planning guidelines based on Jiangsu’s current policy framework. The goal is to guide an orderly and gradual renewal in cities across the province.
The research helps promote urban renewal planning and practice in Jiangsu and other Chinese provinces.
Jun 23, 2017
Public Private Partnership for Building Energy Efficiency
The report finds that, the funding gap in building energy saving will expand to 1.53 trillion RMB in the next five years, but the current government-led investment model is proved to be unaffordable and unsustainable. It is an imperative to attract private capital to the field, which will not only broaden funding channels, but also stimulate innovation and application of energy-efficient technologies and advanced management methods.
This report was supported by Energy Foundation and released by the China Energy Conservation Association in 2017.
Jun 1, 2017
Driving Forces of Low Carbon Development in Chinese Communities
Through questionnaires and field interviews in typical communities, this report analyzes the current status and possible trends of China's low carbon communities, identifies their problems in terms of policy, funding, and technology, and proposes feasible solutions.
It helps to better understand the status quo, and provides a pathway of promoting low carbon development in communities first, and then expanding them to the city level.
The research was supported by Energy Foundation China and released by the Institute for Sustainable Communities and the Beijing Chaoyang Yuheng Sustainable Transportation Research Center in 2017.
Dec 31, 2016
Comprehensive Utilization of Solar Energy in Public Buildings
Researchers select three representative Chinese cities—Xining, Yinchuan, and Xichang—in the western region of abundant solar resources to investigate energy performance of public buildings. Combined with local building characteristics and meteorological data, the analysis establishes an evaluation model for comprehensive utilization of solar energy in typical public buildings. Based on the model, the report identifies the optimal combination of solar energy utilization in a typical public building in a solar-rich region.
This research was supported by Energy Foundation China and conducted by the China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute and the China Architecture Design Group.
Dec 1, 2016
Institutional Reform of Urban Thermal Supply System
This report summarizes best practice of comprehensive utilization of low temperature heat, discusses its current status and weakness in China, explores how to reform the heating system, and puts forward recommendations for the reform.
The report was compiled by the Social Development Division of the Development Research Center of the State Council, with support from Energy Foundation China.
Nov 11, 2016
Creating the Market for Energy Efficient Operations and Maintenance Services in Urban Buildings
Through a review of typical energy retrofit projects, the report analyzes how policies, technologies, and market mechanisms of energy efficient operations and maintenance services work in urban public buildings. It also explores a feasible pathway to achieve large-scale, sustainable energy saving operations in public buildings based on technical and market analysis.
The report was written by Technovator Beijing, with supported from Energy Foundation China.
Sep 1, 2015
2014 Beijing Low carbon design joint studio
In June 2014, Tsinghua University invited total 52 faculty and students from four famous universities to participate in the four-week “2014 Beijing Low Carbon Urban Design Joint Studio.”
