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Several international collaborative activities involving China and India take<br />

place outside the framework of IEA Implementing Agreements. For example,<br />

both countries participate in the $1-billion FutureGen project being developed<br />

by the US Department of <strong>Energy</strong>. FutureGen aims to create a zero-emissions<br />

coal-fired power plant that will produce hydrogen, capture the carbon dioxide<br />

emitted and store it underground. The successful deployment of this<br />

technology could transform future energy supply, making it possible to use coal<br />

resources in a more environmentally sustainable way and lowering reliance on<br />

less secure hydrocarbons for power generation, transport and other end uses.<br />

China has established a complementary domestic programme called GreenGen,<br />

led by the Huaneng Group. India and China also collaborate with the United<br />

States and the European Union on other coal-based power generation<br />

technologies, including integrated gasification combined-cycle and CCS.<br />

Role of the Clean Development Mechanism<br />

The CDM provides an increasingly important conduit for investment in more<br />

sustainable energy technology in China and India. The CDM is a flexible<br />

mechanism that can be used to help countries meet their commitments to limit<br />

their greenhouse-gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. The CDM<br />

provides incentives for Annex I countries with greenhouse-gas emission<br />

commitments to undertake projects to reduce emissions in developing<br />

countries, including China and India, which do not have such commitments.<br />

The resulting certified emissions reductions can be used in Annex I countries<br />

to assist in complying with their national targets. 6 The marginal emissionabatement<br />

cost in developing countries is often much lower than in Annex I<br />

countries, so the CDM can help the latter reduce the overall cost of meeting<br />

their commitments. The mechanism also provides a means of transferring<br />

advanced technology and/or resources to developing countries, with positive<br />

knock-on effects for the more widespread deployment of cleaner, more efficient<br />

technologies in the longer term.<br />

China and, to a lesser extent, India have emerged as major recipients of CDM<br />

investments. China initially lagged behind Latin America in developing CDM<br />

policies and institutional arrangements because of concerns about the integrity<br />

of the Kyoto Protocol and the CDM. However, CDM activity in China has<br />

recently grown extremely quickly and the country has emerged as the<br />

dominant recipient of CDM-related investments (see Box 9.6 in Chapter 9).<br />

Together, China and India account for around two-thirds of all the projected<br />

emissions credits for CDM projects for the period through to 2012 that have<br />

6. A more detailed description of CDM can be found at<br />

http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/mechanisms/items/1673.php<br />

238 <strong>World</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> <strong>Outlook</strong> <strong>2007</strong> - GLOBAL ENERGY PROSPECTS: IMPACT OF DEVELOPMENTS IN CHINA & INDIA

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