THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN COOPERATION WITH THE UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION COMMIT TO COOPERATION ON LOW CARBON DEVELOPMENT TO PROMOTE THE NCSD’S CHINA-U.S. LOW CARBON DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION PROGRAM.
(Beijing, CHINA, February 25, 2010) – On December 16, 2009, the National Center For Sustainable Development (“NCSD”) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, International Institute for Monitoring and Management of Environment and Resources (“UNIDOIMR”) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding for a strategic alliance to cooperate on and support the China-U.S. Low Carbon Development Cooperation Program (the “Program”) for systemic cooperation between China and the U.S. on sustainable low carbon development. The Program was officially launched by the NCSD and the China CDM Fund Management Center (“CDM Fund”) in November 2009. Under the agreement, UNIDOIMR has entered into a strategic alliance with the NCSD to provide various forms of assistance and support to NCSD to realize and maintain the Program, including assistance in organizing conferences and activities, recommend relative cooperative partners and potential funding organizations, assist in fund raising efforts, and join in research projects and similar activities consistent with promoting the NCSD’s Program. This important and significant relationship with UNIDOIMR is in keeping with the NCSD’s heritage and mission as a U.S. not-for-profit organization in fostering sustainable economic development through the promotion of pollution abatement and other low carbon demonstration projects that lead to recognition of methods and practices that can be adopted as a matter of public and commercial practice and which will lead to reductions in the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The objectives to be demonstrated by the NCSD Program, and that will be further supported through the strategic alliance with UNIDOIMR, are to improve communities globally with examples of sustainable low carbon development through the sponsorship of relevant comparative studies on policy, demonstration and scale-up of investment projects with market-based mechanisms and financial instruments, the purpose of which is to promote sustainable economic and low carbon development by participating in, supporting […]
