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Causes: Energy Resources Conservation & Development, Environment
Mission: Promote sustainable and low-carbon fuels and transportation to mitigate climate change in china and around the world.
Programs: Clean energy: with support from the us department of commerce and sponsoring chinese cities, icet is establishing a us-china clean tech center to promote us clean energy and environmental technologies into the chinese market, and provide a cost-effective and strategic launching pad where us firms can showcase their products & services in chinas leading cleantech markets in order to increase market demand and investment for us clean tech companies.
transportation: icet brings together low carbon fuel policies and low carbon emission vehicle ideas from around the globe to offer a comprehensive set of policy suggestions to help china achieve real increases in transportation energy efficiency and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The specific tasks under this program are: 1. Low carbon fuel policy and standards development 2. Vehicle fuel consumption standards and policies 3. The green car china online rating system and methedologies 4. Electric vehicle promotion and policy research
climate change: with support from the rockefeller brothers fund, energy foundation and blue moon fund, icet is working in partnership with the climate registry of the united states and key chinese national and provincial governmental agencies to develop an online energy and carbonregistration system to monitor energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from various domestic and multinational corporations as well as local economic development areas. Icet is developing a pilot program to link transportation ghg emissions with local carbon exchange market. The goal of this project is to produce reliable, consistent and verifiable information on energy consumption and carbon emissions on the corporation and local municipality levels.