Recently there was a U.S. Clean Energy and Environment Trade Mission to China where 19 U.S. companies came to China in search of clean energy investment opportunities U.S. Commerce Secretary David Bohigian.

This trip is seen as a part of the U.S.-China 10-year agreement on cooperation in energy and environmental protection at the strategic economic dialogue (SED) that took place in June. At first glance, citing U.S. companies looking to partner with large oil companies seems a bit contradictory to the idea behind clean energy, but it is important to remember “baby steps.” Cleaner fuel burning is better than no NOx reduction technology.
The U.S. is of course not alone when it comes to tapping into the market of “green” technology and environmentally friendly investments.

The European Union has a EU-China Climate Change Partnership which is on display at Lu Jiazui’s Superbrand Mall on the second floor above Element Fresh. It’s worth checking out, but most of it is in Chinese and it is only up until September 15.

If you don’t have a chance to see it before it’s taken down, the following is a quick run through of each of the display panels (in no particular order):
•    What is climate change
•    International cooperation on climate change
•    EU mitigation and adaptation to climate change
•    Clean development mechanism (CDM)
•    What drives climate change
•    Green technologies and green habits (nice section on what companies can do)
•    EU-China cooperation on natural resource management
•    EU-China climate change partnership

I must say, I was really happy to see many Chinese shoppers taking 10 minutes to look at the panels and, of course, take pictures of it.