As China’s government moves to more assertively reduce air pollution, Energy Foundation China and its partners Clean Air Alliance of China, ClimateWorks, and the Regulatory Assistance Project have compiled a list of 10 key principles for sound air quality management. These principles are offered to China’s local governments to assist them in meeting their increasingly demanding air quality improvement targets. They can also help reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) – an environmental issue that China is also now taking stronger actions on. These principles help reduce air pollution and GHGs at the same time, bringing synergy and cost-effectiveness to air quality and climate policy.

This project is aimed at evaluating recent innovative schemes for incentivizing sustainable vehicle and fuel production and financing clean transportation technology development through the industry players themselves. The first, the California Zero Emissions Vehicles (ZEV) credit scheme, is unique program that evolved over a twenty year period and was able to drive local low-emissions vehicle innovations through a mandate combined with market-based implementation mechanism. The second is a recent Cap-andTrade scheme aimed at incentivizing energy and fuel supply through market forces. The two programs, although not officially linked, are both serving similar air-quality improvement and fuel and GHG emissions reduction targets under the state’s scoping plan for better air quality and later on - reduced GHG emissions. After outlining these programs’ development and evaluating their success, this report will highlight the potential and impediments for similar programs design for implementation in Chinese cities.

This report is aimed at introducing the California ZEV-Credits Program, a recent innovative scheme for incentivizing sustainable vehicle production and financing clean transportation technologies development through the transportation sector. The Program’s success will be evaluated through a single case study of world’s leading California-based electric vehicle manufacturer, Tesla Motors. This report will end with initial suggestions for policy-makers and related stakeholders on how a similar program could be evaluated and tailored for use in China.

In this study, we combined Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regional emission inventories and Community MultiScale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling to evaluate the air quality improvement effect in the region.

This study shows that coal consumption control can significantly contribute to both air pollution control and Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) reduction.

The Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation (iCET) is a unique China-based non-profit third party organization that has been involved in the development of fuel economy policies in China since 2002. Leveraged by its deep market understanding and regulatory outreach, iCET developed China’s first and most comprehensive vehicle database from 2006. This year’s report is iCET’s fourth annual report, which tracked China’s fuel economy implementation status, trends and recommendations.

This project analyzed the causes of building demolition, identified the existing problems in management level and the approval process, and also surveyed the advanced experience in building demolition management of other countries with the intention to provide solid and sound suggestions in the strict management of building demolition in China.

This project has analyzed the construction waste recycling and reutilization situation at home and abroad, which included laws and regulations, preferential policy, supervision mechanism, technical system and so on, and then it has made clear the gap and problems between China and foreign countries. Through establishing the production amount estimation model of construction waste in China, the project has realized the estimating of production amount of every year, the total amount, and the forecasting amount in 2020.

This report is aimed at introducing the California ZEV-Credits Program, a recent innovative scheme for incentivizing sustainable vehicle production and financing clean transportation technologies development through the transportation sector.