Beijing


Roger at CBEEX

Back in Beijing again in late July & early August – this time on behalf of Winrock International, a well-known NGO, and home of the American Carbon Registry. USAID recently solicited applications for a new US-China Clean Energy & Climate Partnership, and I was in Beijing to help Winrock put together their partnership team and technical proposal. We have some really great partners, including Peking University’s College of Environmental Science & Engineering; the Asia Foundation; and the China Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Another very interesting partner is the China Beijing Environment Exchange (CBEEX). I had first met with CBEEX folks on a previous visit, and this time they invited me to the signing ceremony for their first domestic (i.e, China-to-China) Voluntary Emission Reduction (VER) transaction. Check out the CCTV coverage… [& maybe you can find the back of my head??] The Chicago Climate Exchange got its start with exactly such transactions, and we hope that the partnership will open up a new venue in the US for Chinese VERs — much like the Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol currently sold (mostly) in Europe.