The first seminar of U.S.-China Climate Change Working Group is held in Beijing on April 22. The seminar aims to promote cooperation between enterprises in two countries, and implements CCUS demonstration project. Invited organizations introduces the latest work progress and plans about CCUS cooperation. The U.S-China Enterprises Cooperation Agreement proposed by the working group will be included in the third quarter China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogues in Beijing. Researcher LI Xiaochun from IRSM is invited as the special guest to answers questions from the host and audiences.

Given the latest scientific understanding of accelerating climate change and the urgent need to intensify global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and to achieve the goal of promoting large scale climate work cooperation, representatives from the U.S.A and China signed Joint U.S.-China Statement on Climate Change and initiated the U.S.-China Climate Change Working Group (CCWG).

In the seminar, CCWG summarizes present cooperation, explores potential of enhancing cooperation, determines new action initiatives and develops specific implementation plans to promote the development of green and low carbon economy.

The working group has 5 new action initiatives, one of them is the action initiative of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). In the CCUS action initiative, the two countries will support large scale demonstration projects in favor of CCUS policy, technology information, and experiences exchange.

With the action initiatives, the U.S.and China will encourage transform from research to commercialized scale demonstration. The two countries will surmount obstacle in CCUS arrangement and cooperate in the implementation of several overall projects to promote the development of trade and business. They will analyze CO2 utilization method and innovation mode and develop cooperation in CO2 capture and storage.