China
Led by WRI in partnership with WBCSD and local partners, the GHG Protocol team launched an ambitious initiative to develop GHG standards and programs and pursue capacity building in China. This will be a major step forward in China’s ability to measure— and therefore manage—its greenhouse gas emissions.
Our activities focus around four major goals:
• Develop National GHG Standards
• Design and Implement Training and Capacity-building Programs based on the GHG Protocol
• Develop Customized GHG Calculation Tools and Software
• Establish National, Provincial, or Industrial-level GHG Registries
ABOUT THE CHINA ENERGY AND GHG MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
The China Corporate Energy Conservation and GHG Management Program was launched June 1, 2007 in Beijing, China. It is a joint initiative between WRI, WBCSD, and the China Business Council for Sustainable Development.
The program links energy conservation with GHG emission reductions under the motto “energy conservation is GHG emission reduction” (jie neng shi jian pai), coined by the CBCSD. The program strategy is built upon the basis that to meet energy reduction goals, enterprises will have to gather much of the same information that can then be used to measure GHG emissions. By developing GHG inventories as well as energy inventories, companies can gain additional understanding of their GHG-related risks and opportunities at little additional cost.
The program is being executed in two phases that target the most energy- and GHG-intensive industries in China: the cement, oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical, power generation, and iron and steel sectors. The first phase of the program aims to customize GHG calculation tools to Chinese conditions in each of the identified sectors and then to establish those tools and protocols as national standards. The second phase seeks to assist businesses in developing solutions to reduce energy consumption and GHG emissions.
PARTNERS
• CBCSD - China Business Council for Sustainable Development
• CBMA - China Building Materials Academy
• ERI - Energy Research Institute
• NDRC - National Development and Reform Commission
• CSCC - China Standard Certification Center
• Sinopec
• Beijing Shuoren Hitech Energy Co., Ltd.
• Energy Foundation
• BP Foundation
• Alcoa Foundation
• Asia Pacific Partnership - Cement Task Force
