By Li Han
Staff Writer of the Tsinghua News Center
The Sino-US clean energy cooperation signing ceremony was held in Beijing on November 17. Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang attended the ceremony.
Tsinghua University President Gu Binglin, Vice Chairperson of Tsinghua University Council and director of Tsinghua's Low Carbon Energy Laboratory Professor He Jiankun, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge Professor Ian Leslie, and Director of the MIT Energy Initiative and President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Professor Ernest J. Moniz were also present as representatives of the Tsinghua, Cambridge and MIT Alliance for Low Carbon Energy.
At the ceremony, the two nations signed memoranda of understanding aiming to promote cooperation in clean energy development. The establishment of the Low Carbon Energy University Alliance (LCEUA) two days earlier was announced to the audience at the ceremony.
Tsinghua University, the University of Cambridge, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had joined forces on November 15 to form LCEUA to develop new technology and policy options for the global low carbon economy. Six major areas of cooperation have been identified, including clean coal technology and CCS; energy efficient buildings, urban design and sustainable transportation systems; bio-fuels and renewable energy; nuclear energy; smart grid; and energy policy and strategy.
