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News: 2015 EcoPartnerships Solicitation Open Through 3/20/15 02/20/2015

News: U.S. – China EcoPartnerships Newsletter - Issue#2 - January 2015 01/21/2015

News: EcoPartnerships Signing Ceremony and Workshop held July 11-12, 2013 06/27/2013

News: Under Secretary Hormats speaks on EcoPartnerships in Nanjing 12/06/2012

News: Secretary Clinton welcomes new EcoPartnerships at 4th S&ED in Beijing 05/03/2012

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Duke Energy-Charlotte-ENN-Langfang EcoPartnership

Duke Energy and ENN, the founding private sector partners, will focus their activities on technology exchange, trials and demonstration projects. An action plan has already been developed for five technology projects.

Purdue – CAS EcoPartnership

The Purdue University/University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory partnership with the Chinese Academy of Sciences will continue a 5-year successful collaboration in the China-U.S. Joint Research Center for Ecosystem and Environmental Change.

Utah-Qinghai EcoPartnership

The Utah-Qinghai EcoPartnership (UQEP) is the only State-Province US-China EcoPartnership jointly supported by the State of Utah and Qinghai Province.

Columbus/Franklin County-Hefei EcoPartnership

The city of Columbus/Franklin County and the city of Hefei in Anhui Province, sister cities for 25 years, along with potential private sector partners will facilitate the exchange of information and best practices to foster innovation and develop soluti

US and China Business Councils for Sustainable Development EcoPartnership

The U.S. and China Business Councils for Sustainable Development have formed an EcoPartnership to investigate material reuse opportunities in Hebei province that will increase revenue and economic development while reducing waste, energy use, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Mississippi River - Yangtze River EcoPartnership

Known as the Mississippi-Yangtze EcoPartnership, this partnership will focus activities on experience sharing, technique exchange and demonstration projects in areas including fisheries monitoring and habitat conservation.

Case Western - CNOOC New Energy EcoPartnership

Case Western Reserve and CNOOC New Energy Investment are teaming up to work on advanced and next generation electric vehicle battery solutions.

ICMA China Center - CUPL EcoPartnership

The ICMA China Center is developing collaborative projects that further energy security, promote economic sustainability, and advance environmental sustainability in the U.S. and China.

Center for Climate Strategies and Global Environment Institute EcoPartnership

The DC-based Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) and Beijing-based Global Environmental Institute (GEI) have been working together since 2011 on U.S.-China exchanges and capacity building to integrate energy and climate considerations into subnational p

Portland - Kunming EcoPartnership

This EcoPartnership will leverage the clean technology expertise of Portland, one of America’s greenest cities, to develop low carbon strategies for the city of Kunming as it develops, implements, and evaluates its own low carbon programs.

UCLA - Peking University EcoPartnership

This EcoPartnership will enlist a consortium of clean energy and climate change leaders from American and Chinese universities, think tanks, and the private sector to conduct joint research on smart grids, intelligent vehicles, and electric vehicles.

SBU-Tongji Innovative Biogas Management EcoPartnership

History:

SBU visit to Tongji in 2009 identified complementary expertise in biogas management.

CocaCola-YRD–CEIT: Sustainable Bio-Plastics EcoPartnership

Concept: The aim of this partnership is to identify and advance commercial technologies for converting local agricultural residues or wastes (e.g., excess corn stover) into the base ingredients for manufacturing polyester resin/fiber.

NYIT-PKU: Clean Water Management EcoPartnership

The EcoPartnership brings together a strong core team from Peking University (PKU), Wuhan University (WHU), New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), the International Society for Water Solutions (ISWS) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AI

RRR-GZICCEP: Coal Mine Methane EcoPartnership EcoPartnership

Concept: Chinese coal mine enterprises will be offered the opportunity to learn through the management experiences of American mining experts, incorporate American know-how into mine planning and degasificati

NRDC-BEEC: Beijing Demand Side Management EcoPartnership

Concept: Help Beijing build a successful and replicable DSM city pilot through result-oriented collaboration which include policy research, technical support, program design and

ISC-NCSC: Low-Carbon Urban Development EcoPartnership

Concept: ISC and NCSC will establish a Low-Carbon Champions Alliance (LCCA) and equip its members to translate Chinese government strategic objectives and national policy directives related to the TYF into practical development strategies and effective

LBL-SAS Low Carbon Eco-city Development in Shandong Province EcoPartnership

Learn from US experience in planning and policy formulating in low-carbon eco-city development and the pertinent software tools LBNL has developed, can take advantage of its location and staffing to better serve local governments and enhanc

Philadelphia-Tianjin/TEDA Urban Clean Energy Infrastructures EcoPartnership

Relying on 30 years of experience with innovation-based entrepreneurship, this partnership is creating an innovation, entrepreneurial-based commercialization, job creation ecosystem within & between the sister cities

PoLA-SMTC EcoPartnership on Shore Power EcoPartnership

Shanghai Port and the POLA are friendship ports. Both ports have extensive information exchange in the area of air emissions reduction.

EDF-SCDF Incorporating Mobile Sources into Shenzhen’s Carbon Trading System EcoPartnership

Currently, few Emissions Trading Systems (ETS) in the world cover mobile sources.

GE-Harbin Advanced High Efficiency, Low-emissions Gas Turbine Combined Cycle EcoPartnership

The demonstration project will employ significantly improved technology that will result in substantial reductions of CO2 and other Greenhouse Gases.

Sapphire-SINOPEC Producing Green Algae Crude Oil EcoPartnership

Sinopec and Sapphire are partnering to address the important environmental goal of jointly exploring the opportunities of producing clean transportation bio-fuels that result in cleaner air.

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