Supported by Energy Foundation China, the Asia-Pacific Consulting Center for Environment and Development and the Center for Global Environmental Policy at Beijing Normal University jointly assessed the co-control effects of industrial deep decarbonization and designed co-control roadmaps for China’s iron and steel and cement sectors.

In 2020, Energy Foundation China supported Planet-Data Inc. to investigate consequences that thermal power plants have on water temperature, chlorophyll concentration, and transparency in China’s southwestern province of Yunnan.

Supported by Energy Foundation China, Peking University and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention assessed health effects of air pollution and corresponding medical and mortality costs, to lend support to decisions relevant to air pollution control and public health improvement strategies. In September 2020, the National School of Development at Peking University released this report with their findings.

Supported by Energy Foundation China, ChinaIOL released this report in October 2020. It fixes its eye on China’s export residential air conditioning products and benchmarks energy standards of 12 countries in six continents against China’s current minimum energy performance standard to understand how well China’s exports perform in this area.

A joint effort by experts from China National Institute of Standardization, Peking University, and the cooling industry, this scoping study report was released in November 2020 with support from Energy Foundation China.

In December 2020, Energy Foundation China launched this new report, which provides an overall picture of pathways to support China’s 2060 carbon neutrality pledge and its new vision for growth and development.

In 2020, the Green Finance Committee of the Chinese Society for Finance and Banking and the City of London expanded their joint pilot of environmental information disclosure from 9 to 13 Chinese and British financial institutions, with support from Energy Foundation China.

Since the beginning of 2019, Energy Foundation China has supported the China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute to study on clean energy cooperation among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

With support from Energy Foundation China, the China Academy of Building Research completed this research in 2020 on how to promote nearly-zero energy buildings in a large scale.

In 2020, the Center for Global Sustainability at University of Maryland completed this policy research on building sector decarbonization, with support from Energy Foundation China.