Contact:
Mitchell F. Stanley
202.621.1808 (o)
202.302-4759 (c)
mfstanley@ncsdusa.org
Damian Omar Valdez
212-634-5260 (o)
dovaldez@ncsdusa.org
Eric Fang
+86-10-6561-1089 (o)
efang@ncsdusa.org
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
and potentially financing projects in the U.S. and
China that avoid, reduce, or sequester anthropogenic
emissions of greenhouse gases and that employ existing,
improved and new technologies in service in the marketplace
related to energy savings, energy efficiency, clean
and renewable energy and other kinds of climate-friendly
actions.
The NCSD is a U.S. based
501(c)3 not-for-profit organization focused on sustainable
low carbon economic development and global climate
change. The NCSD has launched the China-U.S. Low Carbon
Development Cooperation Program through its strategic
alliance with the CDM Fund. The mission of the Program
is to explore and develop new non-governmental cooperative
channels and mechanisms, and promote sustainable low
carbon development and pragmatic cooperation in association
with bilateral governmental cooperation between China
and US. The NCSD will support policy study to limit
and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and will harness
the resources and concrete efforts of Chinese and
U.S. government-based agencies, business, industry,
academia and non-profit communities of both countries
and channel them into public-private initiatives promoting
capacity building, the development of low carbon funding
models and mechanisms, sustainable economic development
and demonstration investment projects, and practical
applications in low carbon, climate resilience and
clean-energy technologies. The NCSD is inviting US
industry and financial institution collaboration to
join and support the Program implementation with UNIDOMR.
UNIDOMR is an organization
established by the United Nations Industrial Development
Organization which is dedicated to environmental protection
and resources recycling. The mission of UNIDIMR is
to raise the awareness of environmental resource crisis
among governments and people worldwide; to promote
the application of new ideas in the ecology industry
and to establish an economical chain of recycling.
UNIDOIMR commits itself to accelerate the adoption
of new techniques in environmental protection and
resources utilization through practical efforts and
solutions to promote the sustainable use of existing
resources in a responsible manner. The ultimate goal
of UNIDOIMR is to establish a harmonic new order for
an international recycling economy so that a win-win
solution can be achieved through a framework of sustainable
development.
In direct support thereof,
UNIDOMR is pioneering new collaboration on sustainable
development, eco-industry project demonstration and
recycling throughout the economic development chain.
To this end, UNIDOMR's work will seek to establish
and take a global lead in:
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Developing a Management
Certification Standard and system in the field of
environment and resources recycling, a Healthy Working
Environment Certificate and the Certificate of New
Technology or Products in Energy;
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Making evaluations
on the current situations of environmental protection
and resources recycling;
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Enhancing the sustainable
development capabilities of all countries worldwide.
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Building a database
regarding environment and resources projects and
intellectual property;
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Designing and managing
a comprehensive and accurate e-business platform
for technology and projects transfers between nations
and for facilitating cross-nation investments;
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Establishing and managing
an Environment and Resources Development Fund; coordinate
with international finance organizations, investment
institutes and public fund departments to provide
financial services and capital for developing countries
in the world in implementing innovative technology
and projects;
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Speeding up the development
of the global recycling industry;
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Setting up the World
Environment and Resources Prize to encourage and
to award organizations that have made substantial
contributions to the world environment protection
and resources recycling; and
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Cooperating with other
countries and different regions to provide professional
training in the environmental protection field to
cultivate advanced talents and to accumulate managerial
experiences for the recycling industry.
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Under this work program
and application development, UNIDOMR will cooperate
closely with governments, regional organizations
and business and industry entities to provide support
and assistance on innovative technology and projects
and exchange, as well as information service and
fund collaboration.
Mr. Li Jianjun, Director
of UNIDOIMR in Beijing added "We are very happy
to work with NCSD on its low carbon development program
and plan to jointly initiate some of the key demonstration
projects supported by the CDM Fund in China".
"With the official
joint launch of the China-U.S. Low Carbon Development
Cooperation Program by the NCSD and the CDM Fund in
November 2009, we are now focusing our efforts on
identifying and partnering with relevant groups and
are pleased and honored to be working with such a
prestigious and effective organization as UNIDOIMR,"
commented Damian Omar Valdez, one of the founding
partners of the Program in association with the CDM
Fund, and a Trustee of the NCSD. "We believe
that our respective groups have similar and complimentary
missions and objectives and believe that a [public-private]
initiatives such as what w are embarking on with UNIDOIMR,
and that we now have in place with the CDM Fund, provide
an idea framework for our respective groups to achieve
real and measurable progress on the challenges presented
by climate resiliency and sustainable low carbon development,
and we are looking forward to working with UNIDOIMR
on demonstration projects that we are now in the process
of identifying," added Valdez.
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For more information on the NCSD visit www.ncsdusa.org.
For more information on the CDM Fund,
visit www.cdmf.org.
For more information on UNIDO and UNIDO-IMR
visit www.unido.org and www.unido-imr.org.
