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Case study: cutting energy use in Chinese factories
In 2015-16, IIP worked with three energy-intensive factories in Yunnan Province, China, helping them to implement an energy management system (EnMS) and cut their energy use.
The pilot project, which ran from August 2015 to April 2016, resulted in around 30,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases being avoided across the three pilot facilities.
The three companies were Zexin...
Circular economy: Lessons from China
This article is written by John A. Mathews& Hao Tan in March. China's consumption of the world's resources is reaching crisis levels. To produce 46% of global aluminium, 50% of steel and 60% of the world's cement1 in 2011, it consumed more raw materials than the 34 countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) combined: 25.2 billion tonnes. In 2025, China...

Improving industrial energy efficiency will benefit China’s air quality, says report
The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) and IIP have just released a new report to help equip China’s air regulators with the tools necessary to include clean energy and energy efficiency programs in their air quality plans.
The report, ...
Will China's factories go green?
For many years, China has been the world’s fastest-growing economy. Its dizzying growth founded super-cities and necessitated mammoth factories to deliver cheaper goods to a public clamoring for more.
But now, with a slumping economy and internal pressure to improve the environment and make cities less polluted, ...
China policies updated in policy database
China’s industrial energy efficiency policy package has been updated on our Industrial Efficiency Policy Database.
What’s new? Since our last policy update in 2013, we have included information about:
- The Energy...
Getting Smarter About Resource Use in Asia
When it comes to resource use, Asia is by far the world’s biggest consumer. Yet it also has enormous potential to be more resource efficient. The results of a three-year study that shine a light on how to do just that have just been made public by researchers at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in partnership with SWITCH-Asia Regional Policy Support Component, Australia’s...
Mapping our achievements
2014 has proven to be a busy and productive year for IIP. In total, we took part in fourteen initiatives that straddled the US, China and India as well as more further afield.
Highlights, which are all documented in our 2014 annual report, included:
IIP’s best practices databases, which now get over 18,000 visitors per month from countries all over the world...
IIP to support global financing initiative
IIP is working with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on a project to increase the financing of energy efficiency projects across China, India and Brazil.
The project, which is being sponsored by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), will involve replicating EBRD’s successful work...
Energy efficiency finance in China gets green light
The China Banking Regulatory Commission and China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has just issued new guidance to China’s banks on how to assess, finance and monitor energy efficiency (EE) loans to further support the country’s efforts to ramp up energy efficiency efforts.
In addition to providing official encouragement for EE financing operations, the guidelines...

Capping coal consumption in China
Work is advancing on China’s new coal consumption cap strategy, with 450 people attending an international workshop in Beijing on 17-18 November to discuss their research and findings.
The workshop was organized by the Natural Resources Defense Council...
IIP Welcomes New China Country Director
We have just appointed a new China Country Director in our Beijing office. Wan Yang has 16 years of professional experience in environment and energy project management, GHG management, capacity building, international development, policy research and non-profit management. Prior to joining IIP, he worked as Country Representative at the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC). Dongmei...
ACEEE: Germany, Italy, EU, China and France top Global Energy Efficiency Rankings
Washington, D.C. (July, 17, 2014): Germany comes in first in a new energy efficiency ranking of the world's major economies, followed by Italy, the European Union as a whole, China, and France, according to the 2014 International Energy Efficiency Scorecard published today by the nonprofit American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). New to the rankings this year are four nations...
Cutting energy use in the cement industry through smart use of waste heat
The report, Waste Heat Recovery for the Cement Sector: Market and Supplier Analysis, analyzes the current status of WHR in developing countries and investigates the...
China's Energy Efficiency
As the world ramps up its efforts to mitigate climate change without negatively impacting the global economy, many are looking to China to see how it curbs its rising emissions and solves its persistent air pollution problems.
Despite, and perhaps because of, its role as the industrial powerhouse of the world, China has been exceedingly active over the past ten years in developing new...

New project with Chinese government to cut industrial energy use
In the above photo: Jigar Shah (IIP) and Wang Shiyan (ECSC) shake hands after signing the MOU
IIP has kicked off a new project with the Dezhou Energy Conservation and Supervision Center (ECSC) to drive the adoption of energy management systems in some of China’s biggest industrial enterprises. ECSC is the Chinese city government...